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Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Digital & emerging technology)
As customers grow used to ever-greater personalization and convenience, many manufacturers have been lagging behind in this area. The digital manufacturing enterprise, powered by Industry 4.0, can help manufacturers drive better engagement and interaction throughout the customer life cycle.
Supply chains are traditionally linear, but today supply chains are transforming into dynamic, interconnected systems. These digital supply networks integrate information from many different sources to drive production and distribution, potentially altering manufacturing’s competitive landscape.
Electric grid operators are integrating unprecedented levels of variable and distributed energy resources onto the grid, such as utility-scale wind and solar, rooftop solar, battery storage, and demand response.
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Innovation / business model)
What are the long-term impacts of the oil and gas downturn? What are the reasons to be positive for an oil and gas recovery? Read about the state of the industry in Deloitte’s 2017 Oil and Gas Outlook, a take from John England, US Energy & Resources leader and US and Americas Oil & Gas leader, Deloitte LLP.
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Innovation / business model)
How will the new administration impact the power and utilities industry? What are the trends that can help utility companies manage costs? Discover the answers to these questions, and more, in Deloitte’s 2017 Power and Utilities Industry Outlook. By reading this take from Scott Smith, US Power & Utilities leader, Deloitte LLP, you can learn ways to preserve your bottom line in the midst of transformation.
Balancing investments, production, and returns in today's lower-for-longer oil price environment is becoming a major challenge for exploration and production (E&P) companies. Almost every oil and gas resource is struggling to provide the desired balance to E&P companies. The critical question is what portfolio of resources, concentrated or diversified, will deliver the best results?
The scale of a presidential transition is staggering. More than 4,000 political appointees will resign as of January 20, 2017. It’s a large-scale, critical, yet infrequently occurring event, so we turned to the commercial world for new insights on managing a presidential transition. CEO transitions in the private sector occur much more often than every four or eight years.
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Core growth)
Initial market reactions to the election outcome in the United States have indicated improved prospects for banks and capital markets firms in 2017. However, ongoing structural changes are likely to continue in the form of new operating models and investments in emerging technologies for greater efficiencies and competitiveness. Meanwhile, banks and capital markets firms are expected to deepen their engagement with the fintech ecosystem as the trend towards digitization accelerates. In this fluid environment marked by policy uncertainty, how will banks and capital market firms respond?
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Core growth)
The real estate industry is increasingly influenced by rapid technological advancements and significant demographic shifts, which include growing urbanization, longevity of Baby Boomers, and differentiated lifestyle patterns of Millennials. In addition, macroeconomic and regulatory developments continue to impact profitability. How can companies gain a competitive advantage and drive top- and bottom-line growth? Here are some trends to pay attention to in 2017.
It’s fitting that the “Mother of all Cities” hosted the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) annual conference, as progress, inclusion, and stability were key topics. How can profitable insurer infrastructure investment be stimulated? Should regulators focus on financial stability or policyholder protection? How can regulators help the industry innovate? Find out the answers to these questions, and more, in Deloitte’s new IAIS update.
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Core growth)
Several major trends will likely impact the investment management industry in the coming year. These include shifts in buyer behavior as the Millennial generation becomes a greater force in the investing marketplace; increased regulation from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and the transformative effect that blockchain, robotic process automation, and other emerging technologies will have on the industry.
Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Connected devices & technology)
With all the fitness apps and trackers now available, mHealth adoption rates among US consumers are skyrocketing. But the results so far seem lackluster. Why? Learn how organizations can help people get and stay healthier by connecting mHealth with human behavior.
Issue Architecture: Innovation / Business model (Innovation)
The seventh annual pharmaceutical innovation study, co-produced by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions in the US and the UK, looks at the challenges the industry faces in generating returns from its R&D investments. The report also highlights key strategies to help increase pipeline value while reducing R&D costs to generate sustainable returns.
Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Digital & emerging technology)
Increasing costs, discerning customers, and innovative disruption are just a few of the challenges faced by health and life insurance companies. How can a cryptocurrency technology like blockchain potentially solve these problems and more?
New executives are usually brought in to catalyze change in their new organizations. But putting in place change initiatives is fraught with execution risks that range from paucity of resources to stakeholder alignment to emotional, cognitive, and social resistance—what we call the Wheel of Woe execution issues.
Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Digital & emerging technology)
Does your firm routinely need to count, measure, or inspect things, perhaps in locations that are sprawling or hard to access? Then you’re probably already using drones. As software expands their capabilities, we’ll see more drones scrutinizing farms, forests, oil rigs, pipelines, mines, construction sites, and warehouses.
A large number of job openings, low unemployment, and decreased matching efficiency in the labor market imply that hiring high-quality talent is likely to be a challenge. This is particularly true in the IT sector, which is trying to cope with a projected increase in job openings, ever-changing demand for skills, and the rise of the gig economy.
Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Digital & emerging technology)
Society today seems consumed by uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety, as models and expectations about how the world works have come into question. But our analysis shows long-term business trends remaining both stable and predictable, notwithstanding society’s understandable disorientation.
Issue Architecture: Digital & technology transformation (Digital & emerging technology)
Technology has moved far beyond desktop devices and software upgrades: to data analysis, augmented reality, and reimagining products as services. In fact, the range of recent advances—from nanotech to robotic process automation—can seem overwhelming. But CIOs can look ahead to help shape their company’s future.
Issue Architecture: Customer & business growth (Core growth)
The unexpected results of the presidential election have introduced uncertainty into both the US economy and our forecast. Plenty of questions remain, but it’s likely that we’ll see shifts in trade, infrastructure spending, taxes, and regulation—with a range of possible impacts for business and consumers.
This quarter’s developments did little to offer a reprieve from volatility or uncertainty. However, CFOs’ sentiment shows considerable optimism despite growth expectations that remain relatively somber.
Issue Architecture: Culture, talent and leadership (Talent)
In this issue of CFO Insights, we discuss how CFOs can not only help those around them cope more effectively with stress, but help improve the overall quality of communication and interactions they have with people of different workstyles.
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