Center for Future Readiness

IMD Business School, Switzerland

The Center for Future Readiness at IMD

I teach executive programs at IMD. As the LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation, I direct the school’s Center for Future Readiness. The mission of the Center is to quantify which organizations are most ready for a changing future. What can we learn from them?

Our Readiness Index measures the degree to which industry incumbents are likely to leap toward new knowledge frontiers.

Every carmaker, for example, is shifting away from the mechanical engineering of the internal combustion engine. They are changing toward building electric vehicles that blend connectivity with self-driving capability based on algorithms. Our index is a composite of proxies that predict an organization’s likelihood to leap.

Within any given sector, whether finance, consumer brands or automotive, we ask questions such “which organisations are most prepared to deal with the changing world?”

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The Leaders and Laggards: Ranking the Giants of Finance, Auto, and CPG

The Leaders and Laggards: Ranking the Giants of Finance, Auto, and CPG
Latest ranking of the world's foremost finance, automotive and CPG companies, highlighting their readiness to confront the challenges of tomorrow.

How Becoming Future-Ready Makes You More Resilient

How Becoming Future-Ready Makes You More Resilient
All companies will be affected by the general malice of economic uncertainties, but some companies are more resilient than others.

The World Is Too Noisy. How Can My Company Become Future-Ready?

The World Is Too Noisy. How Can My Company Become Future-Ready?

The Most Future-Ready Companies Of 2022 In Finance And Automotive

The Most Future-Ready Companies Of 2022 In Finance And Automotive
Clarity is mastery. Great companies don’t happen by sudden revolution. They materialize via incremental evolution.

What Makes a Company “Future Ready”?

What Makes a Company “Future Ready”?
The more uncertain the world seems to be, the more it is important for companies to become future-ready. In times of crisis, this type of readiness doubles as a source of resilience. 

How Companies Prepare in Springtime Will Set the Tone for the Year

How Companies Prepare in Springtime Will Set the Tone for the Year
Effective leaders and future-ready companies win by embracing paradox. This article focuses on some examples of those who could and couldn’t.