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65 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 10–15% range of its deck.
Lebanon Economic Vision
“The Lebanese economic model seem to be stuck in a vicious circle”
The Lebanese economic model seem to be stuck in a vicious circle.
149% · Debt to GDP
Lebanon Economic Vision
“Over the last ~40 years, Lebanon has not created significant incremental wealth and has also lagged other countries in the last 7 years”
Lebanon's GDP per capita in 2017 was only 30% more than that in 1980, whereas growth in Singapore and Korea reached 400% and 700% respectively.
8% · Real GDP per capita growth
2025 The AI Dossier
Marketing content assistant
By tailoring content and the user experience based on language, region, and customer preferences, the enterprise can drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Reimagined trade promotions”
AI can be used to prepare promotion plans, negotiation materials, pre-works, and pitch-decks.
2025 The AI Dossier
Planning for promotions
By using AI to augment preparing and sorting materials, the organization promotes efficiency in trade promotion processes.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Data access for all”
An AI system can help stakeholders across all business functions better understand the consumer by simplifying data mining and analysis with user friendly interfaces and natural language queries.
2025 The AI Dossier
Data access for all
2025 The AI Dossier
“Seeing is believing”
2025 The AI Dossier
Code assist for developers
Offloading lower-level work AI can augment the completion of repetitive tasks, such as the deployment and maintenance of code across different platforms (e.g., iOS, Android, webapps).
2025 The AI Dossier
Customer support on demand
AI-enabled virtual agents can improve the customer experience by providing real-time, personalized support and creating new ways of interacting with customers.
Technology Trends Outlook 2022
“Why should leaders pay attention?”
AI adoption has continually increased, enabled by its financial investment and development for easier access.
56% · AI adoption rate
International Comparison of Australia’s Freight and Supply C
“This study is a first step towards developing a set of comparative global benchmarks, providing improved performance data to the freight sector”
Going forward, the Transport and Infrastructure Council estimates that a ~1% improvement in productivity and cost could generate between ~$8-20bn AUD in savings to the Australian economy over 20 years
$8-20bn · c/net tonne kilometre
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S GREEN ECONOMY 2024
“SEA has committed to cut emissions by ~32% by 2030 urgent need for accelerated action to shift trajectory”
~32% reduction in emissions is required by 2030 to meet NDC target; more need to start today to deliver a successful outcome with only five years to go
~2.4Gt · GtCO2e
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
“The development of CCUS is generally perceived to be challenging because of four main obstacles”
CCUS cost should be compared to the cost of other means to avoid CO2 release
e-Conomy SEA 2021 Roaring 20s: The SEA Digital Decade
“However, global headwinds threaten to derail the path to recovery”
e-Conomy SEA 2021 Roaring 20s: The SEA Digital Decade
“Macro headwinds have cascading implications on SEA consumers”
2025 Nigeria Budget and Economic Outlook
Key issues for consideration in 2025
7 ·
2023 Benedict Evans 2023 AI and Everything Else
“Foundational question: will LLMs keep scaling?”
We got these results by using more and more data and compute - will that keep working?
Socio-economic case for deepening solar PV deployment in Nig
“Inadequate and unreliable grid supply: Most households in Nigeria do not have access to adequate & reliable grid power supply resulting in dependence on alternative sources of electricity”
Nigeria has one of the lowest populations with access to electricity ... and for those with access in the country, only 17% get reliable electricity
55% · Access to electricity
2024 Benedict Evans 2024 AI eats the world
“Yes, but what is this?”
Almost everyone in tech agrees this is The Thing, but it’s much less clear what that means
Megatrend 5 – Technology & Innovation
“Developed countries are faced with a productivity paradox: Although innovations are rising, contributions of productivity to GDP growth decline ...”
The productivity paradox describes the seemingly counterintuitive development in which the contribution of productivity to GDP growth decreases even though technology advances
Ipsos Equalities Index 2023 Full report
“Compared to all the other problems facing your country, would you say that inequality is important?”
Again, we see that younger generations tend to be somewhat more sensitive to this issue, with a majority of Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z agreeing that inequality is an important issue.
55% · Importance of inequality
Indonesia case study
“Many students still have limited or no internet access, making it difficult to give online education”
There are 42,159 or ~19% of schools in Indonesia still without access to internet, even though 70% of these schools under BTS coverage
19% · School connectivity
KEYS Environment Emergency
“#1: Emergency!”
We are heading for environmental disaster unless we change our habits quickly
91% · % agree
IPSOS HEALTH SERVICE REPORT 2024
The biggest health problems
For the third consecutive year, mental health is seen as the number one problem, with 45% across 31 countries mentioning it.
45% · Percentage of respondents citing health issues
2025 Benedict Evans 2025 Spring AI eats the world
What kind of a change is ‘generative AI’?
How far will this keep getting better?
Megatrend 2 Health & Care
“Combating infectious diseases is one area to prevent further pandemics – Antimicrobial resistance is a key global concern requiring concerted action”
Combating AMR as a global effort has been neglected for a long time for many reasons: Novel antibiotics R&D, for example, is characterized by a very low success rate, while being lengthy and extremely
85% ·
IPSOS POPULISM SURVEY
MEASURING POPULIST SUPPORT
A majority of respondents in all 28 countries believe the main divide in their society is between ordinary citizens and the political and economic elite.
67% · Percentage of respondents
ey e book the green transition
“Why tech progress is held back by a lack of ambition”
The other 52 components either require more effort or are not on track.
International Comparison of Australia’s Freight and Supply C
“Through stakeholder and industry consultation, the Grain and Cement supply chains were selected for review”
30-35% · Supply chain cost percentage
Trend 2030 Dynamic Technology Innovation
“Today we still face major challenges, yet many promising fields of innovation are poised to overcome these challenges by 2030”
2030 ·
Modern Networks
“Businesses are aware that current networks are becoming a bottleneck to enterprise reinvention.”
By 2026, data generation will jump more than 2.5 times to 7.0 Petabytes per second from 2.7 Petabytes per second in 2021.
87% · Executives saying AI data demands have outstripped network capacity
IPSOS EQUALITIES INDEX 2024
The significance of inequality
Across 29 countries, one in two people (52%) say inequality is either the single most important problem or one of the most important problems facing their country.
52% · Percentage of population identifying inequality as a top problem
IEI 2024 Global Charts
The significance of inequality
Across 29 countries, one in two people (52%) say inequality is either the single most important problem or one of the most important problems facing their country.
52% · Percentage of population identifying inequality as a top problem
Refueling Innovation Engine Vaccines
“Vaccine-preventable diseases today cause >600 million DALYs and make up ~23% of the burden across all diseases”
600 million · DALYs
Refueling Innovation Engine Vaccines
“These unmet needs call for innovations on both existing vaccines and new products”
USPS Future Business Model
“Volume declines have been worse than expected when the current legal and regulatory framework was established”
When PAEA was passed, volume projections did not anticipate the current scale of declines.
Third-party governance and risk management The threats are r
“Mind the execution gap”
94.3 percent of respondents have only low to moderate levels of confidence in the tools and technology used to manage third-party risk and 88.6 percent have a similar level of confidence in the qualit
94.3% · respondents with low to moderate confidence
Secret of Transformations
“Most transformations fail”
70% of organizations fail in their transformation.
70% · transformation failure rate
Blurred lines FinTech 2016
“The epicentre of disruption”
Up to 28% of business at risk by 2020
28% · business at risk
Digital Revolution Awards
“...But they still struggle to buy products as cars or mortgages online, and prefer the “human-touch””
Some products are still “difficult” to buy online, indifferently from product price, but the paradigm is slightly changing
50% · Percentage of consumers unwilling to purchase online
Digital Revolution Awards
“Elevating the Shopping Experience: Bridging the Gap Between Online and Offline Channels with Cutting-Edge Tools”
What if we maximise online/offline channels simultaneously?
30% · CAGR
Making finance the predictive powerhouse How to create an ag
“Prepare for what's next with better planning”
The FP&A function lacks the agility to provide the business with the insights they need to manage growing uncertainty
62% · CFOs seeing more demand for insights from financial data
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“The Financial Industry has a Profitability Issue”
4.8% · ROE
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
End of management as we know it
“Model is no longer sustainable, next generation is not willing to live with it”
Only 37% of managers wish to remain a manager in 5-10 years.
37% · Managerial aspiration
ipsos reputation council report 2024
“WHAT KEEPS CCOS AWAKE AT NIGHT?”
Above all, it is the intersection of these issues - the polycrisis - that makes them more than the sum of their parts, and is giving Council members sleepless nights.
Eyepoint Goldman Sachs June 10 2025
“There is a Significant Need for More Durable Therapies in Wet AMD”
80% · treatment compliance
Global Workforce Hopes Fears 2022
“The Great Resignation is showing no signs of slowing down”
1 in 5 employees are likely to switch to a new employer
1 in 5 · Likelihood to switch employer
USPS Envisioning Americas Future Postal
“Four trends are increasing pressure on USPS”
OUR 5 URGENT ACTS
“43 GT CO2 NEED TO BE REDUCED BY 2050”
All actions are necessary to make it happen: from behavior change to immediate compensation.
43 · Gt CO2
Nearshoring in Central America
¿Por qué está sucediendo?
A raíz de la pandemia se cerraron las fronteras, lo que encareció hasta en 500% los fletes marítimos.
500% · freight cost increase
Women-led startups losing across the board: from creation to
“Overall, women-founded startups account for only 7% of creation, 7% of fundraisings, 2% of funds raised”
Overall, women-founded startups account for only 7% of creation, 7% of fundraisings, 2% of funds raised
2% · Share of funds raised
Automated Trucks The next big disruptor in the automotive in
“Most of the top trucking industry issues can be addressed by automated trucks – Benefits expected also for wider society”
A tough year for European chemicals players has come to an e
“European chemical manufacturers are facing a prolonged downturn which requires rigorous short-term measures to protect business foundation”
We’ve seen a “summer of profit warnings” and an increasingly negative view on recovery in the coming months
14% · market share
2023 Scaling Generative AI
“Getting more GenAI into production”
Seventy percent of surveyed organizations indicate that less than one third of their GenAI experiments have made it to production.
70% · production deployment rate
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?
“The industrial sector, the vital core of Germany's economy, has been under considerable strain for several years now”
Today, industrial companies complain mostly about the lack of skilled labor, high energy prices and excessive bureaucracy.
93 · Industrial production index
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“The 2030 Challenge: Producing More with Less in a Changing Climate”
+2.2 · Food security and climate impact
Making WorkWorkBetter for Deskless Workers
“Most deskless workers feel burned out, and 43% are at risk of quitting”
43% · Turnover risk
What is and how to navigate the RAS opportunity in LatAm?
“Such transition is driven by superior support to surgeons and clinical benefits to patients”
RAS systems value proposition
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.
2022 Manufacturing Survey
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Key global business challenges for industrial equipment sector
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
Perspective on Tower & Fiber
“Over 30% of the world still lack access to the Internet, requiring further investments in tower & fiber infrastructure”
Over 30% of the world still lack access to the Internet, requiring further investments in tower & fiber infrastructure
2.6 billion · Unconnected population