problem_statement
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49 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 30–35% range of its deck.
Lebanon Economic Vision
“Moreover, 55% of employers in Lebanon highlight a skill gap between the job requirement and the graduates acquired skills”
55% · Skills gap prevalence
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
“...but vibe coding your products can be risky”
Security breaches, code destruction...
$50,000 ·
2025 The AI Dossier
“Resilient logistics and planning”
AI can help identify and simulate potential disruptions or risks in the supply chain.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Enabling a better grid”
AI can be used to better understand the state of the grid and factors that could support more efficient energy consumption, minimizing losses and improving overall grid efficiency.
2025 The AI Dossier
“AI-powered risk management and regulatory compliance”
Agentic AI systems can act as an always-on compliance and risk management team, with specialized agents continuously monitoring risks across a financial institution's operations.
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
“Large language training datasets need better documentation”
The researchers recommend a documentation methodology where the excluded data is explicitly described.
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
“Can you trust the quality of papers you read at academic conferences?”
With the explosion of papers submitted for consideration at major ML conference venues each year and the limited spots available, the ML community is calling attention to illicit collusion rings among
9454 · Number of papers
Technology Trends Outlook 2022
What should leaders consider when engaging with the trend?
Technology Trends Outlook 2022
“Why should leaders pay attention?”
Solutions for industrializing ML address the technical challenges that prevent organizations from unlocking the full potential of AI and ML.
72% · adoption failure rate
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S GREEN ECONOMY 2024
Transmission and distribution infrastructure expansion
Expansion of energy T&D networks through alternate partnership model is crucial to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the power grid, which currently causes severe curtailment issues.
~11.2 · Investment potential
Rail industry cost and revenue sharing (2011)
“3 – Baseline: Using the ORR’s assessment of NR’s efficient expenditure as the baseline for a cost and revenue sharing mechanism would expose TOCs to potentially significant regulatory risk (2 of 2)”
The uncertainty over the efficiency gap in the final year of CP4 could easily be 15% to 35%, i.e. +/-10% vs the baseline.
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 December The Great Unbundling
“How do you reach your customers? Why?”
$7-800bn · US retail customer acquisition spend
2025 Andrej Karpathy YC School presentation
“Jagged intelligence”
Famous examples: 9.11 > 9.9, two 'r' in 'strawberry', ...
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 January Shoulders of Giants
“Now what?”
Old model is gone, but not yet clear what the new equilibrium will look like
Accelerated Access Review UK Mapping
National Reimbursement: Stakeholder Views
2024 Benedict Evans 2024 AI eats the world
“Answer this question”
What sort of text in the training data seems likely to be related to questions that look like this?
2023 AI Here and Now Gartner Business Quarterly 3Q23
What Is Our Risk Tolerance for Use of Generative AI?
The C-suite should use these sink-the-enterprise possibilities as the basis for establishing guardrails.
barclays global credit 2024
“Ascend GenAI Co-Pilot opens new addressable markets”
Generative AI (Co-Pilot) simplifies the consumption of our software and data, opening new client opportunities for Experian to address in small and medium organizations
INVESTING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS
32% · investor sentiment
Merging with SPAC
What are the advantages of combining with a SPAC?
Combining with and into a SPAC may be faster than undertaking a traditional IPO
The Future of Food Challenges & opportunities
What is healthy food?
A current roadblock is the lack of clarity about what this term exactly means.
Trend 2030 Dynamic Technology Innovation
“... to deliver approaches to overcome these global challenges (1/2)”
Currently 60% of all deaths worldwide are caused by chronic diseases (e.g. heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes) and with a similar level of risk for both developing a
60% ·
HFS Top 10 Healthcare Provider
“...making it harder on healthcare providers to get their financials in order, given the difficult impact of the pandemic”
50% · Strategic goal
IAB State of Data 2023
“Missed opportunity: Less than one-third of DCR users are tapping into advanced measurement”
This represents an opportunity for DCR users to capitalize on the technology's most powerful capabilities critical for operating in the evolving data landscape.
26% · DCR usage rate
Digital Finance Seeing is Believing
“Challenge 02: What technologies should Finance use to “digitalize”?”
When looking up digital transformation, many Finance teams are dumbfounded by the technologies available.
529 cpe
“Rising college debt”
More than 3x faster than college costs
+343% · Student loan debt growth
2025 The new rules of Platform Strategy in the age of agenti
“The alignment gap: Fragmented strategy, missed potential”
Only 18% of companies say their AI, platform and business strategies are fully aligned.
18% · Strategic alignment
Deloitte Business Agility Survey 2021 A pulse check of busin
“Too many organizations are lacking articulation of the desired business outcomes”
The goal of any business agility transformation should not be Agile for the sake of Agile.
2.94 · Articulation of desired outcomes
Challenges in Mining Scarcity Opportunity
“The mining industry faces multiple forces which will adversely impact industry economics going forward”
These forces will have determine how mines are set up and run in the future
Sustainability Risk Under Solvency II
“THE MODELLING OF CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS POSES SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES THAT CANNOT BE SOLVED WITHIN TRADITIONAL APPROACHES”
The essential ingredient of any quantitative approach towards the evaluation of climate-related risks is a forward-looking valuation based on established climate change scenarios.
NY COVID-19 Preliminary Economic Impact Assessment
“Nationwide policies put in place to slow the pandemic have reduced infections, hospitalizations and deaths, however they unavoidably result in significant economic harm”
Mid-March spike due to the stockpiling behavior by consumers before lockdown came into effect
Rail supply digitization
“Data in the rail industry is being collected and can be accessed, but questions still remain around its ownership and future use”
Main questions over all steps: Who owns the data? What are standards? How is the data centralized?
Digital Revolution Awards
“Amplifying Advertising Investment
The Art of Forging Lasting Connections”
Increasing communication investments, yet companies struggle to engage customers meaningfully
0,3-0,5% · Engagement Rate
Making finance the predictive powerhouse How to create an ag
What's happening
57% of finance executives say a lack of availability and access to data is keeping their function from achieving real-time, continuous accounting (includes real-time insights).
57% · finance executives citing lack of data availability/access
Climate Change: BCG’s Perspectives and Offerings
“We need an immediate turnaround”
Gap
50 Gt/a · Global emissions (Gt/a CO2e)
Project Management: Improving performance, reducing risk
“Are those figures true?”
Could these be changed through good project management?
2.5% · Project failure rate
Roland Berger Trend Compendium 2030 Megatrend 4 Climate chan
“Limiting global warming requires measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases – CO2 being the most significant”
54 GtCO2e · GtCO2e
End of management as we know it
“80% of managers and employees consider "management" is harder than before”
80% · Percentage of respondents reporting management is harder
2025 5 trends for 2025
“Despite efforts to slow its growth, technical debt continues to increase.”
As a result, 55% of executives now say technical debt is either a major obstacle or a real roadblock to achieving business goals.
55% · executive sentiment
Introduction to Bain and Report on Resilience
“We see Five Great Myths emerging around resilience”
5 ·
USPS Envisioning Americas Future Postal
“Universal Service Obligation: Processing overhead costs are largely fixed”
Volume declines are rapidly reducing economies of scale.
600 · processing facilities
From survive to thrive Achieving tech transformation for com
The gap between vision for the future and current state
CSP executives are aware of the impact of rising tech debt on their organization and acknowledge the urgent need to approach IT transformation differently. In our research, over 66% of respondents are
84% · CSP executives who say their company will miss future growth opportunities without IT transformation
2024 Executive Perspectives The Future of the AI Driven Tech
Key questions you should be asking your CTO
2022 firm overview
“Fortress risk and control management are non-negotiable”
We are an integral part of a safe, sound and resilient financial system
$3.2T · Total credit provided
Keynote address
“Increasing antitrust and FDI reviews are impacting M&A dealmaking and certainty”
Significant increase in parties abandoning challenged deals pre-lawsuit.
4x · litigation frequency
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)
Fast Forward Route to Consumers
“BUT EVEN IN PERSONAL LUXURY, THE RETAIL EQUATION IS UNDER STRESS”
European Deep Tech – Opportunities and Discoveries
“Start-ups’ time to unicorn and time to exit is on par with other tech”
Deep Tech life cycles are slower and have longer exit timelines
6 years · Median years from launch
Fab Automation AI
“Semiconductor sector has a lot to gain”