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Seven Key Takeaways for Businesses from World Economic Forum 2024

This year marked the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where global leaders from business, government, civil society, media, and academia convened to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust.

Here are seven key takeaways from this year’s meeting:

1️⃣ Speed Is Crucial to Outperformance
Fast-moving Organizations report 2.1 times higher operational resilience, 2.5 times higher financial performance, 3.0 times higher growth, and 4.8 times higher innovation.

2️⃣ Cooperation Is Multifaceted and Can Coexist with Competition
Leaders can practice “co-opetition”—balancing cooperation and competition—to advance shared interests in specific areas, despite lack of alignment elsewhere.

3️⃣ The Generative AI Revolution Is Only Just Beginning
Gen AI is poised to transform roles and boost performance across functions such as sales and marketing, customer operations, and software development. In the process, it could unlock trillions of dollars in value across sectors from banking to life sciences.

4️⃣ Sustainability Is a Business Imperative
Navigating the net-zero economy has become more complicated over the past 12 months, but companies that take courageous action can accelerate value creation and reposition themselves ahead of competitors.

5️⃣ Better Women’s Health Is Correlated with Economic Prosperity
Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.

6️⃣ A Comprehensive Approach to Transformation Is Most Effective
Four essential elements for transformation success—will, skill, rigor, and scope—could give leaders a better chance at outpacing the competition in a time of constant disruption and change.

7️⃣ Business Leaders Need to Focus on Matching Top Talent to the Highest-Value Roles
In many organizations, between 20 and 30 percent of critical roles aren’t filled by the most appropriate people. Skills-based hiring could help organizations access new talent pools.

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