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, […]
The client is one of the largest television content companies in India with a legacy of producing some of the most popular shows of all time on Indian television. However, the company’s business model allowed little room to translate its creative success into pricing power or value creation resulting in a rather modest […]
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 […]
Blockchain is a distributed software network that enables secure transfer of assets and digital information between network participants without an intermediary. Anything from currencies, assets, land titles or votes can be tokenized, stored, and exchanged on a blockchain network. The first concept of cryptographical blocks was described in the early 1990s. In 1998 […]
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 […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic we are all experiencing the effect of the âgray rhinoâ outlined by Michele Wucker (author, specializing in crisis anticipation). This metaphor refers to a probable, but neglected threat that has an enormous impact. The important part is that it gives you a choice. Either you get trampled on, or […]
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 […]