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Source: Bain & Company
Figure 3
Platforms grow through a five-step journey of continuous improvement
Capital rationalization
The dual challenge of decarbonization and energy provision
Re-humanizing work
Artificial intelligence: power and peril
Generative AI is transforming work and personal life by expanding content creation, accelerating automation, and facilitating decision making, while presenting ethical, regulatory, and social implications.
Artificial intelligence: power and peril
Career options will become richer and more varied. Access to these opportunities will be unequal, but in new and different ways, cutting across traditional segments of physical, service, and knowledge work.
Re-humanizing work
While the world will continue to pursue decarbonization of energy systems, the drive for increased energy access will make it unlikely that warming will be limited to the 1.5°C target. Physical and financial resilience will play a greater role in protecting against extreme climate events.
The dual challenge of decarbonization and energy provision
Businesses will face increasing and often competing demands from more activist governments and stakeholders, raising the importance of capabilities to shape public opinion and policy.
Waving goodbye to the invisible hand
Waving goodbye to the invisible hand
Slowing growth of financial assets and reduced capital mobility will combine with increased demand for capital, creating a structurally more inflationary environment and higher real interest rates in many markets.
Technology offers the promise of increasing abundance, but rests on a physical foundation—such as resources, infrastructure, and skilled labor—under increasing strain. Each side will reinforce and challenge the other.
Twin focus on bytes and bricks
Twin focus on bytes and bricks
Consumer experiences and segments are multiplying and diverging, with further variety coming from digital and generative AI technologies. The inherent desire for community remains strong, and will be met at multiple levels, with local and tribal priorities overtaking global ones.
Seeking community among fragmented experiences
Seeking community among fragmented experiences
Artificial intelligence: power and peril
Re-humanizing work
The dual challenge of decarbonization and energy provision
Waving goodbye to the invisible hand
Twin focus on bytes and bricks
Seeking community among fragmented experiences
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Artificial intelligence: power and peril
The dual challenge of decarbonization and energy provision
Re-humanizing work
Waving goodbye to the invisible hand
Twin focus on bytes and bricks
Seeking community among fragmented experiences
Post-globalization
Capital rationalization
Post-globalization
Capital rationalization
A new global order will emerge, defined by great power competition and rising domestic and international tensions, with potential kinetic, cyber, and space conflicts as well as regulatory and trade battles.
Post-globalization
Slowing growth of financial assets and reduced capital mobility will combine with increased demand for capital, creating a structurally more inflationary environment and higher real interest rates in many markets.
Capital rationalization
Post-globalization
Post-globalization
A new global order will emerge, defined by great power competition and rising domestic and international tensions, with potential kinetic, cyber, and space conflicts as well as regulatory and trade battles.
Capital rationalization