Country Customized Solutions
Overview
Special report
The IMD World Competitiveness Center undertakes customized projects for countries/states/regions not included in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook to benchmark their performance against countries that are.
These projects are a powerful tool to help government and business leaders evaluate their economy’s performance. Selected results can be made public to enhance the visibility of your economy as well as its attractiveness to investment and talent.
Summary of the methodology
Prognostic Report
The IMD World Competitiveness Center undertakes customized projects for countries to assess their performance and thus examine the strategic aspects of their current competitiveness policies.
A prognostic assessment is a powerful tool to help leaders contemplate different alternatives to strengthen the competitiveness of their country.
Summary of the methodology
Workshops & Mega Dive
Workshop
The IMD World Competitiveness Center offers workshops focused on assessing and enhancing competitiveness by analyzing the factors that drive the potential for long-term value creation. The workshops facilitate participants’ understanding of their role in strengthening competitiveness by:
- Exploring the main trends shaping the world economy today
- Fostering outside-in thinking about the implications for their situation
- Identifying strategies to create value
- Highlighting the success factors found in the most competitive environments
- Sharing best practices to enhance competitiveness
- Examining results and priorities
Each workshop, which is typically one or two days long, is customized to meet clients’ expectations, interests, and objectives. Holding a competitiveness workshop in your country is an effective way to complement a special report.
The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking is based on 333 competitiveness criteria selected as a result of comprehensive research using economic literature, international, national and regional sources, and feedback from the business community, government agencies, and academics.
The IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking assesses the capacity and readiness of an economy to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society.
The IMD World Talent Ranking assesses the extent to which nations develop, attract, and retain talent for enterprises operating in those economies.
Published by The Smart City Observatory (IMD and Singapore University of Technology and Design – SUTD). The Smart city index offers a balanced focus on economic and technological aspects of smart cities on the one hand, and “humane dimensions” of smart cities (quality of life, environment, inclusiveness) on the other.
IMD World Competitiveness Online is a unique and comprehensive database on the competitiveness of nations. It includes time series from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, the leading annual report published by IMD since 1989, from the IMD World Talent Ranking and from the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking.
Order the IMD World Competitiveness package, or the online database or Yearbook+digital version (PDF), as well as individual country profiles and factors.