Adapt to Lead
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSFORMATION READINESS
of leading organisations say their transformations often meet goals smoothly. Only 3% of those lagging say the same.
Enabling transformation success
Discover what’s keeping the C-suite up at night – and how adaptability can turn transformation from a challenge into your competitive edge.
Strategic Overload: The C-Suite’s Crisis of Focus
Leaders are facing challenges from every direction – strategic, operational, technological, financial and regulatory. But among these challenges lies an opportunity to prioritise and focus on what matters most.
Discover more about leaders’ concerns and priorities, and how their transformation mindset is evolving.
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Systems: The Delivery Engine of Adaptability
The most adaptable organisations often rely on modular business architectures – systems made up of smaller, independent and interchangeable components. These modules deliver value on their own, but also work together seamlessly. This makes them high-performing, flexible and ready to shift with market demands.
Discover your action plan on how to embed adaptability into your systems.
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People: The Human Engine of Adaptability
Adaptable organisations empower individuals at every level to take ownership of change, experiment and learn. They create environments where progress matters and align teams around a common understanding of value. When leaders unlock this human engine, they build resilience, protect capacity and ensure that transformation progresses successfully.
Discover the core behaviours to drive adaptability.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC INVESTMENT
Leading organisations consistently prioritise strategic over tactical investment. It’s a marker of transformation maturity.
The industry lens
Organisations are under enormous pressure to keep pace with shifting customer and employee expectations, disruptive new entrants and emerging technologies. To stay relevant and cost-effective, they need to get better at transformation – and fast. Our research reveals that industries define transformation in different ways. Some focus on continuous improvements, while others push for bold, one-off changes.
Transformation priorities
Transformation often fails because organisations are trying to accommodate too many competing priorities. Such a narrow spread of responses reflects the complexity leaders are facing. Many are trying to tackle too much at once and struggling to make a meaningful difference.
This pattern shows up across every industry, yet with some clear differences. Retail leaders are strengthening their digital capabilities (28%) and driving sustainability (24%), while in pharma and life sciences, improving governance and compliance (26%) tops the list.
Transformation Priorities – Industry Comparison
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