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The world is going through enormous changes. Wealth can be made and lost in a few years.
We’re starting to recover from a period of inflation (it peaked at 9.1% in June 2022) that anyone (living in the US) below the age of 40 has never experienced before. Critical decisions on infrastructure, legislation, and technology determine which countries will win or lose. Giants like GE and IBM fade away. Technology players like Netflix can experience a 40% erosion in their share price in one day. The rise of AI requires almost all companies to respond in some way if they want to survive.
In just a few years, technology, legislative or demographic changes can render an entire sector built around, for example, combustion engines irrelevant.
Each and every sector is facing wrenching changes, where wrong decisions can lead to billions in lost shareholder value, mass retrenchments, and obsolescence. For example, if we look at the energy sector, we know it ripples across to all companies, into households, into everything. Climate change and the risk of wildfires are bankrupting utilities and forcing many to take on the costly task of moving electricity lines underground. And those costs need to be passed on to consumers, which drives up the price of energy even further.
The emerging markets are rising. Power plants will have to build new transmission lines and distribution lines to carry renewables. The shift away from funding coal plants means that the portfolio of power stations in existence will need to be continuously reshuffled as funding dries up.
Existing coal plants will lose funding for refurbishments. Due to the impact of tariffs and products manufactured with coal in the production process, we will see some countries lose their export edge.
The world has to ironically invest more in gas to wean itself off coal and build reliable supplies.
Nuclear is probably going to make a comeback.
Each and every company in the energy sector, and companies impacted by changes in the energy sector, will need to create a new business model and make a costly transition to this business model.
But this issue is compounded, isn’t it?
It’s not just energy issues forcing companies to make the change. It’s issues with regard to changing demographics, changing purchasing power, the rise of AI, and so on. All of these issues need to be addressed.
Bad business models lead to low market capitalizations. This is not just a theoretical number.
Shares sold at a higher price can be used to fund projects to strengthen or gain a competitive advantage.
These changes above, and those are not all the changes, these are just a few of the big ones, will affect every single company in every single sector.
Every leader will need to step up to face these challenges. What leaders used before to stay competitive is no longer sufficient.
So here’s the question:
Imagine you are a business leader of an organization that is facing such a challenge. You don’t have to imagine since you are faced with these challenges to some degree regardless of your sector, geography, or leadership level within the organization.
You may be a principal or partner within a large consulting firm on a study helping a crown jewel client.
You may be a senior manager who needs to deliver at a higher level to face these challenges.
You may be an executive given the responsibility to come up with a response for your practice, division, or department.
It’s a daunting challenge.
Literally, everything is on the line.
What if you knew there was a consulting study that showed you how another company made a similar decision and managed the transition?
Enter the Strategy Control Room, Advanced level.
See the list of all the documents loaded in the Strategy Control Room and Strategy Control Room Advanced Level:
https://www.strategytraining.com/pages/scr
New resources are loaded weekly.
Within the Advanced level of the Strategy Control Room (SCR Advanced), you will find the world’s largest non-public library of exclusive strategy and management consulting documents that executives and partners within consulting firms wish they had.
The files in the library may change over time as we add new materials and, at times, remove some materials. This is yet another reason not to sit on the sidelines and wait to get access later. Later, some of these materials may no longer be in the library. Like many of our books are no longer available on Amazon. If you joined as an Advanced level Strategy Control Room member today, you will find:
