Planning and preparing for the future is a vital prospect of any business’s success. Criticaleye partner, Cognizant, commissioned Economist Impact to examine the state of businesses today, considering present needs through the Future-Ready Business Benchmark research program.
Key takeaways include:
How the size of a firm doesn’t have as big a difference as it did because of rapid digitalisation.
Current levels of performance cannot be sustained without greater investment in preparedness. Countries and industries on average are scoring 60 out of 100 for future-readiness and the top 20% firm-level performers score 74 out of 100.
Nine in ten executives say they’re willing to sacrifice short-term gain for long-term advantage, but results have indicated this doesn’t happen in practice.
Better use of data will require organisation-wide change. The report estimates a 3-7% increase in firm productivity as a result of big data analytics capabilities. However, many firms aren’t even meeting a basic “small data” threshold.
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