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Apr 4, 2024 | 
imd.org | Tomoko Yokoi |Anja Lagodny |Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff
Recent findings reveal that most CEOs recognize the urgency of adopting GenAI to maintain a competitive edge, perceiving significant potential to uncover new insights, enhance operational efficiency, and strengthen risk management. Yet this sense of urgency is tempered by uncertainty due to its nascent nature, which brings questions about its capabilities, ethical use, and long-term societal implications.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
imd.org | Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff |Anja Lagodny |Carlos Cordon
In this era of digital supply chains and data-driven decisions, one could be forgiven for thinking that the most powerful and useful data a manufacturer of consumer goods could have when constructing forward demand forecasts would be current and historical consumer demand for their products. After a closer look with several planning experts, however, it seems that the real picture is more nuanced.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
imd.org | Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff
E-commerce as a share of retail continues to grow, accelerated by the pandemic. This is particularly true of the online grocery market. As one of the largest online grocery markets in the world, the UK has many players, but two of the most dynamic are the market leader – Tesco – and Ocado. These two companies have taken markedly different approaches to executing and fulfilling online grocery orders from customers.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
imd.org | Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff |Alexander Schmidt |Mark J Greeven
âŻThe recent adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) is a watershed moment in public policy efforts to address the challenge of climate change. The reporting obligations of the ESRS aim to provide normalized transparency to both companiesâ full value-chain emissions and also to their efforts to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. It is a recognition that commercial activities are at the heart of carbon emissions.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
imd.org | Tomoko Yokoi |Michael Watkins |Ralf Weissbeck |Ralf Seifert
Projections of the impact of automation on middle managers run the gamut from bleak to hopeful. Recently published research revealed that what will matter are the nature of current tasks and the flexibility of managers themselves, says Tomoko Yokoi. Intense debates over how a given new technology, or automation more generally, will affect the nature of employment have their own long history, going back to at least the advent of the typewriter and the assembly line.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
imd.org | Michael Watkins |Ralf Weissbeck |Howard Yu |Ralf Seifert
Uncertainty #5: The pace and extent of AI regulation remain uncertain. As lawmakers and regulators grapple with this new technology’s implications, businesses must navigate an evolving regulatory landscape. This changing terrain introduces new requirements for transparency and accountability, as well as potential unexpected costs and compliance challenges. As a leader, you must remain informed of these developments and be ready to adapt your strategies as needed.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
imd.org | Anand Narasimhan |Richard Baldwin |Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff
So what have I learned over the past 15 years? 1. Ignore the naysayers When I started, I was met with a lot of skepticism. I was told it’s impossible to build a car in Croatia and it was hard to imagine that an electric car would ever beat a combustion engine in a race. We have since broken 23 records and now have the fastest accelerating car of any kind. I will admit that the skeptics were probably right.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
imd.org | Richard Baldwin |Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff |Alexander Schmidt
Is globalization dead? No, but it is changing – faster than we think, and in ways that we haven’t anticipated. Globalization is transforming as we speak into being less about industry, mining, and agriculture and more about services, which are weightless. This is going to fundamentally change how the world does business. It will change the pathway of development, with emerging markets benefiting the most.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
imd.org | Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff |Carlos Cordon |Alexander Schmidt
The recent problems with semiconductor supply chains are well known – but as the US, China and others build efforts towards resiliency and independence in this supply chain they would be wise to note several classic pitfalls . Lying at the intersection of economics, trade, geopolitics, and operations, the semiconductor supply chain has taken an outsized role in the public consciousness.
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Jun 4, 2023 | 
imd.org | Michael Watkins |Ralf Weissbeck |Ralf Seifert |Richard Markoff
In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is increasing concern about the risks of uncontrolled advancement of the technology. In an article published in late May 2023 titled Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and non-profits focused on technology policy identified nine “extreme AI risks” and proposed strategies for containing them.
