Sustainability

Global resource challenges: Risks and opportunities for strategic management

November 15, 2016

Global

November 15, 2016

Global
Josselyn Simpson

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Josselyn has worked in the thought leadership and quantitative research team of the Economist Intelligence Unit for more than 15 years. She is an expert in creating engaging content for C-level and other senior executives. Among her areas of interest are organisation, governance, and the effects of technology on the workplace. She was also a Senior Campaign Manager at Booz & Company and a Senior Editor at McKinsey & Company. Through those roles she developed significant expertise in global thought leadership development and programme management. She began her career at The New Yorker. She is based in New York and holds an undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard College.

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The below downloadable index provides an objective perspective on the realities of resource challenges and commitments to meet them based on government and NGO data; it complements the survey, which gathered the views of executives on the same topics. We also conducted interviews with several executives and experts to further explore these findings. The paper investigates the impact that resource scarcity has on businesses in the included industries, how companies are adapting their operations to better manage these risks and whether those adjustments align with the realities of the resource environment that the index defines within each industry.   

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