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Reimagining industrial operations

Through innovation, advanced analytics, digitization, electrification, and process efficiencies, carbon-intensive operations underpinning the global economy can shape a more sustainable future.
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Diversity still matters
– Inclusion and diversity are at risk in the crisis—but are critical for business recovery, resilience, and reimagination.

Reimagining the post-pandemic organization
– The organization of the future is taking shape in the moves that companies are making now. Here’s what’s changing—and why some... companies say they won’t go back.

Personalizing change management in the smartphone era
– A global manufacturer is blending digital technology, analytics, and behavioral science to personalize its change program. Its... experience offers lessons for leaders everywhere.
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Playing for the long haul

– Explains why companies that take a long-term view of value creation thrive, highlights the technology-driven business changes on the horizon, and takes a close look at the future of work.  

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A game plan for quantum computing
– Thanks to technology advances, some companies may reap real gains from quantum computing within five years. What should you do... to prepare for this next big wave in computers?

Getting practical about the future of work
– Adapting to a digital age will require organizations—and not just employees—to equip themselves with new capabilities.

Understanding the leader’s ‘identity mindtrap’: Personal growth for the C-suite
– If you’re shackled to who you are now, you can’t recognize—or reach for—who you might become next.

2019 Issues

Transformation
– Explores why companies should go “all in” on transformations, looks at innovation and performance, and explains how... talent is key to digital transformations.

The drumbeat of digital
– Looks at why companies should up the pace of digital-change efforts, explores the keys to successful M&A, and highlights the... importance of shifting the mind-sets and behaviors that hold back organizations.

Resilience
– Addresses business resilience and how companies can prepare for the next economic downturn, explores the ins and outs of effective... decision making, and takes a hard look at talent in the workplace.

Reimagining mobility
– Explores the future of mobility and what shifts mean for cars, business, and society. The issue includes perspectives from participants... shaping the coming mobility revolution.
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Bias busters: Avoiding snap judgments
– When making important business decisions, it’s critical... to put first impressions aside and explore the facts.

Bias busters: Getting both sides of the story
– How can the CEO break employees’ silence and get the critical input needed to make the right strategic moves?
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