Booz & Company at WEF 2011

Booz & Company at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011

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

Chairman Joe Saddi, CEO Shumeet Banerji, and a group of Booz & Company partners — including Klaus-Peter Gushurst, Cesare Mainardi, Jurgen Ringbeck, and Vanessa Wallace — attended the 41st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 26-30, 2011.

The theme of this year's meeting was Shared Norms for the New Reality, and the four pillars supporting this idea: Responding to the New Reality, The Economic Outlook and Defining Policies for Inclusive Growth, Supporting the G20 Agenda, and Building a Risk Response Network.

CEO Banerji participated in the panel titled "Reshaping the American Economy: The Impact Abroad" on January 26 that will explored the global implications of dramatically reshaping the U.S. economy, specifically surrounding fiscal policy, trade, and investing.

Other Booz & Company events planned at Davos include:

Thursday, January 27: Middle Eastern lunch: Cesare Mainardi will discuss his new book The Essential Advantage, co-authored with Paul Leinwand.
Jürgen Ringbeck presented a private talk on Aviation and Maritime Carbon Leadership on Thursday, January 27
Booz & Company's annual Alpine Sweet nightcap event was held on Friday, January 28 at the Steigenberger Hotel Belvédère Davos

Booz & Company is a Global Partner of the World Economic Forum.

Our Work with the World Economic Forum

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. It provides a framework of key enablers — partnerships, policies, and financing mechanisms — that are critical to accelerate the development and deployment of these technologies.download study (PDF, 3.03MB) >

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, with functions such as e-health, e-government, e-education, and smart grids being developed to take advantage of the connectivity that broadband offers. Originally published as part of the World Economic Forum's “The Global Information Technology Report 2010–2011: Transformations 2.0" report.download study (PDF, 908kb) >

Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011
"The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011" measures and analyzes the drivers of travel and tourism competitiveness in economies around the world. Its main goal is to provide a useful tool for governments and business leaders in overcoming the obstacles to travel and tourism competitiveness, in order to benefit fully from the sector’s development. Released by World Economic Forum in a strategic partnership with Booz & Company, the report ranks 139 states in areas such as health and safety, infrastructure, price levels, cultural offerings, environmental protection, and legislative regulation.read more >

Q&A with Booz & Company Leaders

What is your outlook for the global economy in 2011?view video >

How can organizations develop resilience in this new world of risk?view video >

What should be the role of business in developing countries?view video >

What norms does an interdependent yet diverse world need to share?view video >

Featured Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review Press recently published our flagship publication on Capabilities-Driven Strategy, The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Based on extensive research and providing a wealth of exercises, tools, and company examples, The Essential Advantage helps you construct a strategically coherent company in which the pieces reinforce one another instead of working at cross-purposes.

download "A Conversation with the Authors of The Essential Advantage" (211kb, PDF) >