Explore ideas shaped by the experience of Cordence Worldwide Member Firms working across markets, industries, and complex business challenges. Together, these perspectives reflect the depth of the diversity and expertise found across our alliance.
The COVID-19 has been a wake-up call for CPOs that have realised that a resilient supply chain requires closer cooperation with their suppliers. A recent study on the early impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain showed that a large number of respondents experienced a need to intensify their cooperation with their supplier […]
Adopting a strategic, design-led mindset can help you make sense of the ambiguity of the foreseeable future and begin to chart your path forward. From there, you’ll need to diversify your customer strategies, workforce constructs, and operational plans to minimize risk and increase adaptability in the face of future uncertainties. To do this, […]
Crises and unanticipated disruptors reshape businesses permanently, pushing an organization’s change capability to its limit. As the world of work navigates volatility and is thrust into virtual ways of working, traditional change management itself is also turned upside down. Reimagining change management for a new virtual world creates an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen […]
The current COVID-19 situation has pushed a lot of changes forward. Changes that perhaps previously belonged to categories such as: “Yes, we should do that but …”, “It will never work”, “I am not sure where to begin”. And yet, a lot of us have succeeded with these changes, and many of them […]
Already before the Corona pandemic hit global markets in Q1/2020, vehicle sales worldwide took a considerable dive driven by declining demand from China, global âtrade warsâ, and stricter CO2 emission regulations. Vehicle sales in 2019 had already declined even more sharply than in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Additionally, the global economic […]
And perhaps this is even more true now as many organisations have had to trim units and functions during the current crisis. This makes it even more critical to have knowledge and skills shared across the organisation instead of in closed-off units. Unfortunately, we often forget the final design criteria on cooperation when […]
The world has changed. And one likely consequence is that executive thinking will be changed for many years to come. The traditional way of thinking has been focused on optimising profits in a given market, and this has been the design criterion for our strategies, our operating model and structures, our people development […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every industry, in every corner of the world. Yet this universal impact also brings a time of stark contrast. In the hospitality industry, for example, many hotels shuttered their doors amid global travel restrictions, and the ones that remained open have largely struggled to attract travelers; in early […]
Across industries, businesses are weathering a perfect storm: Organizations must adapt to the accelerated rate of technology-driven change while applying these technologies to create experiences that make customers feel valued, cared for, and understood. In response to a growing set of market pressures, business leaders tell us that they are most focused on […]
Most CEOs will soon need to look further ahead and change their mindset from reactive to more proactive. Boards, owners and not least employees will start asking âWhat now? â what are the expectations for the next 6-9 months and what is the plan to get us there?â However, the old ways of […]
Uncertainty and ambiguity are constant conditions in todayâs market climate. Leaders face an ever-increasing and evolving set of operational variables, whether it be a disruptive start-up competitor that redefines customer expectations, a new tariff stifling your European division, or an emerging social media movement that challenges your brandâs equity. Successfully navigating this environment […]
