<p><b>After years of driving ambitious digital transformation programs, North American businesses need to extend their digital-intensive efforts to talent management and ESG.</b></p>

<p>The twin motors of technology and innovation have long driven corporate America. But after much time and attention spent on digital transformation, more is needed to be future-fit.</p> <p>Amid tumultuous and often unprecedented events, North American businesses need to extend and blend data-intensive ways of working into two key areas that will help them get the full value of their tech investment and be perpetually prepared for the future: talent management and their environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts.</p> <p>In our work to define what it takes to be future-ready—and how close businesses are to reaching a future-ready state—Cognizant commissioned Economist Impact to conduct a survey of 2,000 senior executives from across industries and geographies, as well as create a future-ready benchmarking tool (see our full report, &quot;<a href="https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/insights/perspectives/how-to-be-fit-for-the-future-wf1140900" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ready for anything: what it means to be a modern business</a>&quot;).</p> <p>Our own analysis of this data underscores what executives in North America and globally need to do now to prepare.</p>

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