Over the past several years, organizations have adapted to seismic changes in their environment—a global pandemic, war, supply-chain disruptions, the rise of remote work, and a reconceiving of the corporation as a sustainable, inclusive enterprise, rather than just a short-term-profit focused business.
And yet they still face unending volatility, only now in the form of high inflation, persistent labor constraints in many sectors, and the threat of recession. As a consequence, leading organizations are also fundamentally rethinking the way their corporate functions—such as HR, finance, procurement, and real estate—will operate. Meeting the challenges will require companies both to reset these functions, especially to align to new cost pressures, and to radically reimagine some of these functions’ fundamentals: what they do, how they do it, and most important, why they do it—the expanded impact they can potentially achieve in a digitally enabled world.
This collection expands on both of these intertwined themes, identifying practical moves leaders can make to help their organizations navigate the present while preparing for the future.
