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43 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 5–10% range of its deck.
Lebanon Economic Vision
“Achieving Lebanon's Economic Vision will require an efficient urban and business centre in Beirut”
Several gaps exist within Greater Beirut's efficiency that should be tackled as part of a broad city vision.
2025 · Urban efficiency KPIs
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
“Even so, RL environments and evaluations are fraught with challenges”
As reward signals become more abstract, the simplified environments used for agent training have become the primary bottleneck, limiting progress towards generalizable intelligence.
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024
“Researchers try to correct problems in widely used benchmarks”
There are alarmingly high error rates in some of the most popular benchmarks that could be leading us to underestimate the capabilities of some models, with safety implications.
57% · error rate
Hydrogen applications and business models
“Hydrogen could partially address GHG emissions as a fuel substitute in sectors responsible for more than 65% of global emissions.”
65% · Global GHG emissions
2025 The AI Dossier
“Autonomous in-store coordination to optimize retail execution”
Agentic AI can help stores become highly efficient, semi-autonomous systems—where human associates focus on value-added service and strategic priorities while AI handles routine operational tasks.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Autonomous supply chain operations”
Agentic AI systems can improve the efficiency and resilience of automotive supply chains by using specialized agents to forecast demand, optimize planning, detect disruptions, and autonomously adjust
2025 The AI Dossier
“Autonomous warranty adjudication”
Agentic AI systems can streamline the adjudication of automotive warranty claims by using specialized agents to assess claim filings, flag anomalies, generate documentation, and support human adjudica
2025 The AI Dossier
“Guiding consumers to the right car with personalized, multi-agent assistance”
Agentic AI systems can streamline the vehicle buying and leasing process through specialized agents that evaluate numerous purchase options and provide hyper-personalized recommendations to consumers.
2025 The AI Dossier
Marketing content assistant
With AI, the enterprise can create product descriptions, imagery, video, and more much faster and more consistently than with existing tools and processes.
Southeast Asia's Green Economy
“But approaching decarbonization through a sector lens has fallen short of delivering climate and growth outcomes”
Lesson learned: A single sector approach limits resilience, economic outcomes, and climate impact
Southeast Asia's Green Economy
“Over five years, SEA’s Green Economy Report repeatedly identifies the same systemic barriers that limit scale and results”
A systems approach is needed to overcome structural barriers
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S GREEN ECONOMY 2024
“SEA faces unique challenges that will need a systems level change to decarbonize and transition”
Structural constraints & challenges hinder the pace of progress
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S GREEN ECONOMY 2024
“Transition potential | SEA has a clear opportunity to leverage the coming transition for competitiveness and economic growth—not just decarbonization”
SEA has a clear opportunity to leverage the coming transition for competitiveness and economic growth—not just decarbonization.
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
“At current emission levels, the remaining carbon budget corresponding to the +1.5°C target could be exhausted in about 10 years”
66% of global GHG emissions come from end-use combustion of coal, oil and gas (~35/53 GtCO2eq over)
10 years · Remaining carbon budget
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
“CCUS must be deployed with other solutions to decarbonize the energy sector”
CCUS can play four crucial roles in the transition to net zero: Tackling emissions from existing energy assets, As a solution for sectors where emissions are hard to abate, As a platform for clean hyd
15% · CO2 emissions reduction
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
“Ongoing CCUS developments are far below the required targets to achieve net zero”
The capture capacity of the current pipeline of projects need needs to be multiplied by ~4-fold by 2030.
580 · MtCO2 per year
Reshaping NYCHA support functions
“Project scope covered back-office functions, not "front-line"”
Banking and capital markets trends 2020: Laying the foundati
Second order risks
Model impacts of second order risks on balance sheet, product life-cycle and lines of business (incl. volatility, longer supply chains, changes to credit risk, sources of funding, consumer behaviour a
2024 Benedict Evans 2024 AI eats the world
Lots of science questions...
OpenAI broke through by making a giant model, so now, do models get still-bigger, or smaller?
Barclays Credit Bureau Forum 2023
“Our software business is an exciting growth opportunity”
Success with key components of this value chain and commensurate inbound demand positions Experian well for success
Indonesia case study
“Significant regional differences in socioeconomic status in Indonesia lead to ~20% of schools being unconnected”
With an estimated 19% of schools that are not connected to the internet yet
19% · unconnected schools
Innovation Engine for Growth Playbook
“INNOVATION DRIVES GROWTH IN LARGE ORGANISATIONS”
When we surveyed more than 800 senior executives around the world for our Innovation Matters research, we found only 24 per cent were fully confident they have defined the skills and activities needed
24% ·
Megatrend 2 Health & Care
“From winning the battle against infectious diseases to providing global access to medicines – The scope of the challenges is tremendous ...”
Megatrend 2 Health & Care
“The scale of human tragedy along with the deep economic downturn due to COVID-19 demonstrates the world's vulnerability to pandemics”
COVID-19 Pandemic -3.3%
-3.3% · Annual growth of global GDP
Fueling the AI transformation: Four key actions powering wid
“Is an increase in AI deployments yielding fewer outcomes?”
94% of business leaders surveyed agree that AI is critical to success over the next five years. Yet as organizations deploy more AI, outcomes appear to be lagging.
94% · Importance of AI solutions
Veteran Opportunity
Why hire veterans?
Employers can take advantage of federal tax credits of up to $9,600 per veteran.
$9,600 · tax credit
2025 The new rules of Platform Strategy in the age of agenti
“The case for platform reinvention”
The features that made platforms valuable are the ones AI is now outgrowing.
Customer Experience: The 14BN Risk Noted for Discussion
“€14bn of customer value at risk due to customer experience”
Estimated value at risk of up to 15% of net margin – €14bn
€14bn · net margin
Customer Experience: The 14BN Risk Noted for Discussion
“Poor customer experience has strong impact on client value”
15% Customer margin base at risk due to bad experiences.... €14BN for the 4 largest European countries
€14BN · Customer margin base at risk
Responding to COVID-19: Addressing the economic impact of th
“The imperative of our time”
~ -8% to -13% economic shock
-8% to -13% · Real GDP
Responding to COVID-19: Addressing the economic impact of th
“Safeguard our livelihoods: Assessing and responding to the economic impact of the crisis”
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 could exceed anything since the end of WWII.
57 million · unemployment
End of management as we know it
“Management, as we know it, is at a breaking point”
Management, as we know it, is at a breaking point
81% · Manager job difficulty
Perspectives on WMATA's ridership
“Our starting point: Ridership has slipped in bus & rail”
357m · Unlinked Rides Annually (m)
Women-led startups losing across the board: from creation to
“In France, women-only teams particularly struggle, while gender-mixed teams seem to cope better”
France appears as #3 country in terms of gender parity at creation, with clear deterioration vs 2021: with new trend, parity in founding teams would only be reached in 2065 i.e. 10 years lost in a yea
2065 · Gender parity
Gen AI amplified
What if you could increase your organization's productivity by 50%, giving clinicians thousands of hours back to focus on patient care?
What if you could increase your organization's productivity by 50%, giving clinicians thousands of hours back to focus on patient care?
50% · productivity uplift
What if Germany becomes the sick man of Europe again?
“No other European economy is growing more slowly than Germany between 2020 and 2024 - Is the country about to become the sick man of Europe again?”
5.5% · Cumulative growth in real GDP
Mastering Marketing Measurement
“AI is transforming marketing, but measurement remains a significant hurdle for most organizations”
Unless you get the basics right, the rewards of using AI to measure marketing efforts will remain out of reach.
70% · revenue growth
IoT Mobile Internet Data Analytics 2030
“Governments will need to do more with less over the next decade”
Need for transformative innovation in government
Future of Work Deskless Worker
“One-third of deskless workers may leave their jobs within six months”
Ages 18 to 24 are 40% more likely to consider leaving their jobs
37% · turnover risk
2023 Manufacturing Survey
“Industrial Equipment & Technology (IE&T) Executives are facing numerous challenges including inflation, supply chain disruption, sustainability concerns, and economic uncertainty”
Given the current environment and impacts on U.S. manufacturing businesses, L.E.K. surveyed executives to understand the impact on their near and long-term strategic priorities
Private Sector Partnership Learnings
“The looming demands on agriculture are colossal ...”
70% · Agricultural output increase
What if the ECB raises its policy rates? Roland Berger Insti
“Persistently high inflation rates have put pressure on central banks to act
What will happen if the ECB takes action and raises its policy rates?”
7.0 · Inflation rate (yoy, %)
Global Business Services Performance improvement
“The strategic case for change”
Create a GBS culture by repurposing a technology your organisation is probably already using.