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Economics
Sustainability
Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index
In today’s ever-changing global economic landscape, we’re witnessing a shift from the era of rapid globalization to what’s commonly referred to as “slowbalization”. It is important to note that this shift doesn’t signal a retreat from international engagement; instead, it represents a deliberate and strategic response. This change is driven by a…
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Competitiveness
Talent Management
IMD World Talent Ranking 2023
The 2023 WTR studied 64 economies – including Kuwait for the first time – by quantifying 31 criteria that involve both hard data and survey responses from executives. Each criterion was then organized into three factors: Investment and Development, which considers the domestic resources committed to cultivating homegrown talent; Appeal, which ev…
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Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
The LEGO Group & IMD: Building the leadership playground
In 2017, the LEGO Group’s sales had stalled after more than a decade of strong growth. The challenging external retail environment was expected to continue. Internally there was stagnation stemming from a weakened innovation drive and lack
of focused delivery. Something had to change: The 90-year-old family-owned business needed to empower its …
EFMD Excellence in Practice 2023 Gold Award
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Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
Bank Mandiri Indonesia and IMD: Cultivating ambidextrous talent to support a bank’s dual transformation
Bank Mandiri had set its sights on becoming Indonesia’s best financial services player and prominent in the ASEAN region. To achieve that objective and face up to an increasingly challenging competitive landscape, it embarked on a dual transformation: Transplanting its wholesale-banking DNA to other segments, while asserting itself in new, digit…
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Disruption
Digital
The surprising developments of digital supply chains to raise resilience in the face of disruptions
We describe the need for resilience in supply chains given the recent stream of disruptions that the world has experienced. Based on recent events, we identify different types of disruptions that have challenged the resilience of supply chains. Subsequently, we describe the different digital tools used in supply chains and their success or failu…
The surprising developments of digital supply chains to raise resilience in the face of disruptions
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We describe the need for resilience in supply chains given the recent stream of disruptions that the world has experienced. Based on recent events, we identify different types of disruptions that have challenged the resilience of supply chains. Subsequently, we describe the different digital tools used in supply chains and their success or failu…
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Digital
Disruption
Digital Vortex 2023日本語版・ポスト・パンデミックのデジタル・ディスラプションを探る Japan Edition
NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc. (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: Shigeki Yamaguchi, hereinafter NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting) and the IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, a Swiss business school and IMD research organization Director: Professor Michael Wade, hereinafter referred to as…
Digital Vortex 2023日本語版・ポスト・パンデミックのデジタル・ディスラプションを探る Japan Edition
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NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc. (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: Shigeki Yamaguchi, hereinafter NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting) and the IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, a Swiss business school and IMD research organization Director: Professor Michael Wade, hereinafter referred to as…
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Competitiveness
Sustainability
IMD Smart City Index 2023
The only global index of its kind, the IMD Smart City Index 2023 uniquely focuses on how residents perceive the scope and impact of efforts to make their cities ‘smart’, that is, employ technology to address the ongoing challenges their city has, while balancing “economic and technological aspects” with “humane dimensions”.
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Family Business
Sustainability
Navigating your family’s philanthropic future across generations
We live in a world of unprecedented change and transformation, in which world leaders are increasingly uncertain about how to tackle the many new challenges confronting humanity. Amid the global health and economic crisis, enterprising families worldwide are reminded of the timeless truth that a business can only prosper if the community in whic…
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Sustainability
Strategy
Winning sustainability strategies
As the expectations on corporate responsibility increase, and as transparency becomes more prevalent, companies are recognizing the need to act on sustainability. Professional communications and good intentions are no longer enough. Winning Sustainability Strategies helps executives aiming to create a thriving, sustainable future for their busin…
Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Gold Award – Best Advance in Education Delivered Through Technology
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Competitiveness
Talent Management
IMD World Talent Ranking 2022
As talent migration patterns remain unpredictable, governments and businesses attract local and foreign talent by boosting overall appeal of their economies. Global economies are reassessing the balance between cultivating domestic and international talent, in a bid to compensate for skilled labor losses as a result of travel constraints and loc…
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Economics
Sustainability
Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index
Global trade has helped lift hundreds of millions of people around the world out of poverty, but the benefits of trade do not come without their risks. If an economy is unprepared for the consequences of trade growth, it may result in labor disruption, environmental degradation, and worsening inequality. Proactive and responsible government poli…
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Digital
Sustainability
Ethics
Getting started in digital responsibility
The benefits of digital technologies are well-known by now. They can be a critical element of business growth, innovation, and operational continuity. The adoption of digital technologies has been linked to organizational benefits, such as enhancing product and service innovativeness (Blichfeldt & Faullant, 2021), improving efficiency (Subramaniam,…
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Digital
Competitiveness
IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2022
Now in its sixth year, the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking, produced by the IMD World Competitiveness Center, measures the capacity and readiness of 63 economies to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society. Based on a mixture of hard data and survey rep…
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Finance
Sustainability
Social Innovation
Impact management: A market analysis of impact objectives and firm policies
Sustainable financial products are rapidly growing. According to the 2021 Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study, sustainable investing assets increased 31% from 2019 to 2020, reaching a total of CHF 1,520.2 billion. On the level of sustainable funds, volumes increased to CHF 694.5 billion and now represent 52% of the overall Swiss fund marke…
Impact management: A market analysis of impact objectives and firm policies
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Sustainable financial products are rapidly growing. According to the 2021 Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study, sustainable investing assets increased 31% from 2019 to 2020, reaching a total of CHF 1,520.2 billion. On the level of sustainable funds, volumes increased to CHF 694.5 billion and now represent 52% of the overall Swiss fund marke…
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Leadership
Agility
Making a paradigm shift in leadership development
As highlighted in this report, the realities of a tsunami of change and uncertainty has brought into sharp relief a critical number of leadership skills and attribute that are essential components of a leader’s tool kit.
