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64 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 25–30% range of its deck.
Lebanon Economic Vision
“Lebanon’s tourism ecosystem lacks coordination across several stakeholders”
The tourism ecosystem in Lebanon is fragmented
Lebanon Economic Vision
“Lebanon faces several shortcomings across the innovation pipeline that need to be addressed”
Areas of concern
Budgetanalyse af Forsvaret 2017 Materialesamling Del 2
“Project execution and management: Immature steering”
Today's project portfolio is characterized by narrow silo projects rather than overarching programs
2025 The AI Dossier
“Expediting experiments and design”
AI empowers materials designers to explore a wider design space, optimize material properties, and expedite the discovery of new materials.
2025 The AI Dossier
Understanding the ore
AI can make the process of chemical separation of minerals from ore more cost- and time-efficient, safer, and more environmentally sustainable.
2025 The AI Dossier
Understanding the ore
AI models may struggle to generalize mineral samples and processing scenarios that are significantly different from the training data.
2025 The AI Dossier
Optimize the design
AI can support the development of site plans by automating aspects of the design process, providing designers with new possibilities and reducing the associated time and cost.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Enhancing employee safety”
AI can be used to develop personalized and immersive occupational health and safety (OHS) training materials that allow trainees to be safely exposed to realistic scenarios and thereby reduce or bette
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
“Data becomes more critical when the stakes are high”
Google researchers define Data cascades as “compounding events causing negative, downstream effects from data issues”.
92% · Data cascades occurrence
The State of Fashion 2025
“Choice paralysis is negatively impacting customer experience; brands are struggling to address it”
80 percent of customers are dissatisfied with the search experience and leave the site as a result.
80% · customer dissatisfaction
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 December The Great Unbundling
The ecommerce margin question
Ecommerce changes retail and brand leverage.
UK Electricity Efficiency Potential
“Barriers can make an investment unattractive or present financing or execution difficulties”
RAIL FREIGHT IN CENTRAL ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST
“Port of Baku and ferry services as key capacity bottleneck for corridor shipments via AZE”
150,000 · TEUs
RAIL FREIGHT IN CENTRAL ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST
“Sanctions prevent integration of IRN in corridor services, regional cooperation limited”
Banking and capital markets trends 2020: Laying the foundati
GDPR
GDPR is much more than a one-off change programme, or a series of business activities designed to avoid a fine – it's the reality of today's modern, customer-centric business.
Socio-economic case for deepening solar PV deployment in Nig
“Most pregnant women in Nigeria rely on primary healthcare centers (PHC's) for antenatal care (ANC), however findings reveal PHC's are constrained in providing ANC to visiting pregnant women”
40% · ANC service delivery gap
The overall positive sentiment was also reflected in the sup
“However, improved internal & external connectivity will make modern vehicles vulnerable to an increasing number of cyber threats”
Suppliers must design E/E architectures to prevent component-level attacks and understand the design implications for integration into vehicle sub-systems.
PEOPLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
“Misperception of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals”
Yet, our survey found evidence of over-confidence in the progress made on the SDGs.
17% · UN SDG targets on track
People&ClimateChange2025
“Misperception of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals”
Yet, our survey found evidence of over-confidence in the progress made on the SDGs.
17% · UN SDG targets on track
Indonesia case study
“Solutions are required to improve coverage quality to reach better (school) connectivity”
showing we need a clear focus on 2 topics
29% · Internet connectivity
Spring 2022 National Client Meeting
“With such diverse inventory, how do you increase your ad yield and reach the right viewer with the right ad?”
...when a household watchlist looks like this, how do you know which ad to insert at any given time?
NCM SNCM Y 2022 SNCMP
“With such diverse inventory, how do you increase your ad yield and reach the right viewer with the right ad?”
...when a household watchlist looks like this, how do you know which ad to insert at any given time?
KEYS Environment Emergency
“#5: An opportunity for us?”
From this list of options, which three do you think would most reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of an individual living in one of the world’s richer countries?
58.6 · CO2 saved (tonnes)
March Macro Brief Financial fissures emerge
“However, the EU continues to struggle in elevating its global AI market position compared to the US, while also facing significant supply chain vulnerabilities”
There is a lack of a functioning and deep European Capital Market Union (CMU), hindering cross-border investment particularly in tech/AI
86% · Market share of LLM models
INVESTING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
“Savings Goals Stopped Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
55% continue to save for all their goals
45% · Savings goal contribution
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“Savings Goals Stopped Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
55% continue to save for all their goals
45% · Percentage of investors who stopped saving
WHAT THE FUTURE: INTELLIGENCE
“Why responsible AI will unblock our worries”
The FAST framework builds in precautions that will help people feel safe in using AI without sacrificing speed.
What The Future Intelligence
“Why responsible AI will unblock our worries”
The FAST framework builds in precautions that will help people feel safe in using AI without sacrificing speed.
41% · Consumer worry level
Pivoting to a High Quality Growth of Clinical Trials in Chin
“However, past innovation mainly concentrated around heated targets, leading to the rising concern of homogeneous competition for pharmas in China”
Chasing heated targets without differentiation is unsustainable.
57 · Number of molecules
2024 Accel AI eating software
“Enterprise software spend under pressure”
IT budgets shifting to AI
30% · Change in IT Budgets
International Comparison of Australia’s Freight and Supply C
“The objective of the study is to improve the competitiveness of Australia’s Supply Chains by providing improved performance data to the freight sector”
A ‘call to action’ for stakeholders to come together to support planning, development and investment into making Australia’s supply chains sustainable and competitive
Affordable Housing Challenge Blueprint
“Urban greenfield development in outlying areas can fail if adequate infrastructure is not built”
Building too many low-income housing units without adequate infrastructure ... led to vacant houses
14.0 · Ratio of vacant houses
Trend 2030 Dynamic Technology Innovation
“Huge challenges across the globe are calling for solutions from Life Sciences ...”
HFS Top 10 Healthcare Provider
“All the attributes of the triple aim of care are heading in the wrong direction in the US...”
Veteran Opportunity
“Veterans are returning home and are currently an untapped resource”
Veterans cite "finding a job" as the greatest challenge to transitioning back to the civilian world (over 69% of veterans cited this concern)
12.1 · Unemployment Rate
Digital Finance Seeing is Believing
Challenge 01: Where should Finance start “digitalizing”?
Where to start?
529 cpe
“Financial aid reality check”
Free grants and scholarships normally pay only a small portion of college costs, and many families don't qualify.
57% · Percentage of total costs paid by grants
Private Markets Asset Allocation Guide May 2023 002
Why invest in private markets?
A differentiated investment universe with the potential for higher risk-adjusted returns through active management.
95% ·
CO2 Emissions Report
“CO2 EMISSIONS ARE INCREASING. CAR MAKERS MUST ACT”
Selling so many BEVs in such a short time is practically impossible due to production capacity constraints.
2.5 million · BEV sales
2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey
“Economic concerns hamper Gen Zs' and millennials' ability to plan for the future”
Despite deep financial concerns, the majority are hesitant to speak with their employers about raises or promotions.
62% · Percentage of respondents expecting difficulty in life milestones
Climate Change: BCG’s Perspectives and Offerings
“Humans cause ~50 Gt emissions per year”
50 Gt · Gt CO2e
Fueling the AI transformation: Four key actions powering wid
“Findings show that challenges weigh harder in Germany”
The only challenge that German respondents consider less complex compared with their global counterparts is "proving the business value" with 33% and 40% of the respondents, respectively.
48% · AI implementation challenges
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“Redefining Our Value Proposition: Having a true impact on people’s lives and companies’ businesses”
Our purpose is to bring the age of opportunity to everyone
Project Management: Improving performance, reducing risk
“Why should Project Management be important to you?”
Resiliency in the making
“When it comes to building resiliency, piecemeal solutions are inadequate.”
From this list of 31 capabilities, we suggest that companies prioritize investment in the 11 emerging capabilities most aligned to better resiliency outcomes—the Resiliency 2.0 capabilities.
31 · resiliency-focused capabilities
Technology Mineral Criticality
“Increased cooperation between all stakeholders is required to ensure the correct timing of investments”
For better timing, upstream technology investors and downstream producers need to cooperate more, and tight market and trend assessments are needed
317 · Investment USD billion
Rethinking the course to manufacturing’s future
“WHAT'S NEEDED NOW: Workforce transformation to preserve and augment critical knowledge”
A significant majority (70%) of the factory managers that Accenture surveyed consider workforce transformation as the most critical factor for success.
3.8 million · manufacturing skills gap
The time for climate action is now
“Existing technologies can reduce ~65% of emissions needed for net-zero goal”
New business models and changes in policy can maximize available net-zero technologies to achieve 60-70% of progress towards net-zero.
65% · emissions reduction
Innovation Unleashed Building a culture that drives sustaine
“Yet companies struggle to build and sustain a culture of innovation”
81% of companies also told us that their employees collectively lack the behaviors and mindsets needed to build an innovation culture.
81% · companies whose employees lack behaviors and mindsets for innovation culture
AI-Enabled Engineering Excellence
“Adoption conundrum | Adoption remains uneven, with only 20% of teams reporting >75% uptake – current change efforts don't lead to stickiness”
GenAI adoption is not just a technology shift – it's a behavior shift. Sustained impact requires structured enablement, ongoing reinforcement, and a programmatic approach to drive consistent usage and
20% · GenAI adoption rate
Insurance Trends Growth Poland
“Customer anxiety around retirement security is significantly higher in Poland”
Polish are the most worried about retirement security
85% · Percent of individuals not confident
USPS Envisioning Americas Future Postal
“Universal Service Obligation: Customer service network costs are largely fixed”
600 weekly counter customers at the average Post Office, 1/10th of Walgreens
36.5 · Retail locations
The evolving private equity playbook
“Private equity leaders recognize financial engineering is not enough to meet investor expectations. According to a study by Accenture, they believe it should account for just 25% of their efforts.”
The remaining 75% should focus on operational value creation.
75% · operational value creation focus
Deloitte Global Treasury Survey
Addressing key treasury challenges
20% of respondents have indicated that they are planning to implement new technologies, taking more a wait and see approach until some new technologies reach maturity.
64% · Percentage of respondents
Global Consumer Insights Survey 2023 ME
Figure 2: How frequently have you taken actions as a result of supply chain issues?
These figures demonstrate the opportunity for retailers that can resolve their supply chain issues to take market share.
44% · Consumer action frequency
Gen AI amplified
The healthcare workforce crisis
The widening demand-supply gap is already stretching clinicians thin, leading to chronic fatigue, burnout and declining work satisfaction.
~900,000 · US registered nurses expected to leave the profession by 2027
Poverty Empowerment India
“An average Indian lacks access to 46% of services”
An average Indian lacks access to 46% of services
46% · Average Deprivation Score (ADS)
Tillsonburg IT Strategic Review
Drivers of the IT strategy review
IBV The Cognitive Enterprise
The finance opportunity in a Cognitive Enterprise
74 percent of CFOs cite existential threats of some kind to their enterprise's current business model.
74% · CFOs citing existential threats
European Deep Tech – Opportunities and Discoveries
“Deep Tech is gradually de-risked over time resulting in similar failure and graduation rate as other tech startups”
2.5% in cumulative graduation rate for both Deep Tech and other Tech
2.5% · cumulative graduation rate
Understanding public attitudes to early childhood
“However, there is relatively low recognition of the importance of early childhood compared with other life stages”
17% · Public perception of importance
Royal Foundation Attitudes to Early Childhood Key Findings P
“However, there is relatively low recognition of the importance of early childhood compared with other life stages”
17% · Public perception of importance
Gen Z Attitudes Toward Higher Education
“Only a fraction of community college students transfer to four-year colleges, and an even smaller percentage of those students successfully graduate”
70%–80% of community college students intend to transfer to a four-year program . . . but only 30%–40% actually transfer . . . and only half of those complete a bachelor’s degree.
10% · transfer and graduation rate
Global Pricing Sales Study 2017
“81% of all companies surveyed have made investments in digitalization, but only 23% saw a topline impact”
3 in 4 companies fail to grow their top line with digitalization.
23% · topline impact