Booz & Company at WEF 2013

Booz & Company at the World Economic Forum

Booz & Company at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013

As a selected Strategic Partner of the World Economic Forum, we strongly support the Forum's commitment to improve the state of the world.

The focus of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from January 23-27, 2013, was “Resilient Dynamism.” Today, we live in the most complex, interdependent, and interconnected era in human history. We are increasingly confronted by major adaptive challenges as well as profound transformational opportunities. This new leadership context requires successful organizations to master strategic agility and to build risk resilience. More broadly, it requires every sector of society to foster resilient dynamism.

Booz & Company CEO Cesare Mainardi participated in the CEO panel on Enterprise Resilience on January 25. Joining Mr. Mainardi on the panel were: John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE, Hong Kong SAR; Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International; and Daniel Vasella, Chairman of the Board, Novartis. Subramanian Rangan, the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress at INSEAD, moderated the panel.

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Featured Thought Leadership

The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Digitization for Economic Growth and Job Creation
by various authors
The mass adoption of digital applications is proving to be a powerful means of delivering services, highly disruptive of multiple industries, and a wealth and jobs creator. To ensure their countries benefit fully, policymakers in the future will need to become digital market makers. Here’s how they can use digitization to gain competitive advantage.read more >

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Video: Growth Through a Capabilities Lens
with Cesare Mainardi, Ken Favaro, and Tom Stewart
Booz & Company CEO Cesare Mainardi participated in a discussion of enterprise resilience at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Watch him explain how firms can generate growth by focusing on a few distinctive capabilities. watch video >

Joe Saddi Discusses the Middle East at the World Economic Forum
with Joe Saddi
Booz & Company Chairman Joe Saddi discusses insights from the firm's study entitled "Staying on the Road to Growth: Why Middle East Leaders Must Maintain Their Commitment to Economic Reform". Watch his interviews with Dubai TV and Al Arabiya TV. (Note: video content is Arabic.) watch video >

The New Functional Agenda
Rising demands on corporate functions provide functional leaders and staff with a golden opportunity. Instead of striving to be "best in class" in everything they do, they can become "fit for purpose" by focusing on activities that are strategically important to the enterprise and that help drive its distinctive value proposition.read more >

Our Previous Work with the World Economic Forum

The Global Information Technology Report 2012
Over the past decade, The Global Information Technology Report series, has become the most comprehensive and respected international assessment of the preparedness of economies to leverage the networked economy. read more on weforum.org >

Accelerating Entrepreneurship in the Arab World
The launch of the Accelerating Entrepreneurship in the Arab World report, produced by The Forum of Young Global Leaders and Booz & Company, highlights 10 recommendations to promote a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem across the region. read more on weforum.org >

Maximizing the Impact of Digitization
With information and communications technology access approaching ubiquity, policymakers are faced with the challenge of ensuring individuals, businesses, and governments are making the best possible use of networks and applications that have the potential for dramatic economic, social, and political improvements. download (1.4mb, PDF) >

The Role of Large Employers in Driving Job Creation in the Arab World
The Role of Large Employers in Driving Job Creation in the Arab World is a new report that represents a collaboration between Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Booz & Company, and the World Economic Forum. read more on weforum.org >

MENA Middle Class: Hopes, Fears, and Governments’ Way Forward
This compendium, published at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World in October 2011, includes an overview of the most critical issues facing the Middle East. download (2.1mb, PDF) >

Repowering Transport
A collaboration between the World Economic Forum and Booz & Company, the Repowering Transport project explores technology-driven opportunities to drive short- to medium-term energy diversification and efficiency in the transportation sector. download (3.0mb, PDF) >

Building Communities Around Digital Highways
Nationwide high-speed broadband networks, or digital highways, can significantly boost a country's socioeconomic growth. However, such digital highways become truly effective only when "digital communities" spring up beside them. download (908kb, PDF) >