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IMD’s 2025 AI Maturity Index highlights how leaders of the most successful companies are scaling AI technologies across 10 industries for competitive advantage

The STI weaves together the economic, societal, and environmental factors that underpin sustainable trade, assisting decision-makers in setting priorities for inclusive, long-term growth. This year’s report centers on the strategic trade-offs in sustainable trade. Developing economies often face direct tension between economic priorities and env…

A decade of IMD survey data and interviews with five seasoned supply chain executives from diverse industries reveals supply chain has moved from the sidelines to the center of business strategy. Yet progress remains uneven. Based on the responses of more than 1,000 senior executives across 20 industries, this white paper finds: – Significant g…

This guide aims to help businesses navigate the rapidly evolving voluntary biodiversity credit (VBC) markets and decide whether and how to engage in VBCs. It is intended for companies that want to help halt biodiversity loss or restore and regenerate biodiversity in the context of nature-positive strategies. It is relevant for those with biodive…

This guide aims to help businesses navigate the rapidly evolving voluntary biodiversity credit (VBC) markets and decide whether and how to engage.

Moving the cogs in a country’s productivity system requires the right kind of talent. Let’s consider them the oil. The usefulness of this oil depends on all manner of inputs, such as the quality of the education system and the attractiveness of the country to foreigners. The output? A well-greased talent competitiveness machine. Of course, this …

Organizations are racing to invest in AI, with Gartner predicting worldwide GenAI spending could surge to $644 billion in 2025. As investment floodgates open, implementation timelines are shrinking dramatically: two in five organizations are moving from decision to deployment in less than six months, according to IDC. These high-stakes, high-spe…

New IMD playbook 2025 Winning with AI The business leader’s guide to AI – from strategy to execution Organizations are racing to invest in AI, with Gartner predicting worldwide GenAI spending could surge to $644 billion in 2025.

In 2022, the NatWest Executive Committee (ExCo) shifted its strategy to focus increasingly on growth. The previous 15 years had been spent on restructuring and reshaping following a government recapitalisation in 2008. For the ExCo to transform NatWest into a future-ready bank, it embarked on a four-retreat engagement with IMD to help it develop…