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Be relevant. Always.

Reimagine your operating model so it senses change and responds instantly to the evolving needs of your business, workforce and customers.

Be relevant. Always.

Reimagine your operating model so it senses change and responds instantly to the evolving needs of your business, workforce and customers.

Is your business ready for anything?

If there’s one thing today’s businesses can count on, it’s uncertainty. From supply chain and climate instability to a global health crisis and talent shortage, the priorities you focus on now will define how you handle what comes next.

For future-ready businesses this represents an opportunity to reimagine foundational elements—technology, talent, ESG—to stay ahead of emerging expectations and the competition. Perpetually.

Find out how business leaders like you are preparing for tomorrow’s challenges in Ready for Anything: What It Means to Be a Modern Business, which includes our perspectives on research conducted by Economist Impact and supported by Cognizant.

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Multiple priorities highlight the size and scale of the challenge

Now is the time to build the foundations for long-term success. The challenge for leaders is where to focus to make the changes and transformation needed to become future ready.

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WHERE TO FOCUS

How does your organization stack up?

When everything feels a priority, it’s hard to know where to focus. Evaluate your organization’s future readiness with the Future-Ready Business Benchmark developed by Economist Impact and supported by Cognizant.

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How does your organization stack up?

When everything feels a priority, it’s hard to know where to focus. Evaluate your organization’s future readiness with the Future-Ready Business Benchmark developed by Economist Impact and supported by Cognizant.

Use the tool

Prioritize, focus and create a cycle of success

Restructure core elements of your business to be self-supporting and interconnected across technology, talent and ESG.

TECHNOLOGY
Adopting new technology is easy—but creating value is not

The drivers of transformation today—IoT, cloud and AI—are rapidly becoming table stakes, making room for emerging technologies like blockchain, quantum computing and robotics to uncover new possibilities. But a value challenge looms as businesses struggle to realize returns from new technology investments.

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TALENT
Workforce strategies need a major overhaul

While many see a shrinking labor pool as the main issue facing talent management, the reality is that companies are falling short in preparing people for the future of work. Explore how focusing on technology without fully investing in the people behind it creates barriers to future readiness.

ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE
Close the gap between ESG commitments and action

90% of decision makers agree you can’t be a modern business without a cohesive ESG strategy. But there’s a huge disconnect between actual plans and real action—a gap that must close as customers, employees, investors and regulators increasingly scrutinize ESG progress and begin holding companies more accountable.

The key to perpetual relevance: Intuition.

Imagine anticipating change and acting before your competition does. Imagine confidently making data-based decisions at the perfect time. Imagine always being relevant to your customers.

That’s the power and promise of intuition.

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The key to perpetual relevance: Intuition.

Imagine anticipating change and acting before your competition does. Imagine confidently making data-based decisions at the perfect time. Imagine always being relevant to your customers.

That’s the power and promise of intuition.

Learn more

*Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of Cognizant and do not necessarily reflect the view and policies of Economist Impact. Data presented is from an Economist Impact executive survey, supported by Cognizant, conducted in 2022.
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