Turning disruption into opportunity

The future of businesses in every sector will depend on their ability to adjust to 'megatrends' and the disruptive forces they create. The megatrends range from longer life expectancy and mass migration to urban areas through to emerging-market growth, resource scarcity and technological breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence. Disruption is reshaping businesses and blurring the boundaries between industry sectors.

What does this mean for your business?

As business executives seek to understand the impact of change on business models, they are asking some important questions: How are global megatrends affecting my sector? How far will they disrupt my industry in the next five to ten years? What might the future look like for my sector and my business? Finally, what do I need to transform today to thrive tomorrow?

To answer some of these questions, we've developed a body of work on industry disruption and transformation that can help inform your strategic decision-making over the medium to long term. Our insights outline possible future scenarios that you can use to consider where your business should be heading and the actions it could take to get there. Our insights outline possible future scenarios that you can use to consider where your business should be heading and the actions it could take to get there. Are you ready for more than one future?

So start exploring who the future winners in your sector might be, the capabilities that your business needs, and the strategies for building them. Then you will not only be prepared for the future that comes, you will thrive in it.

You can also use our instant disruption profiler to model the likely extent and nature of disruption within your industry and compare it with the models of others in your industry.

How can we help

• Turn industry disruption into opportunity: Our industry experts can help you to form a view of the future and work with you to identify emerging business opportunities.


• Transform human capital: We help organisations to strategically and culturally align and talent operations by leveraging technology, analytics and our deep industry knowledge.


• Accelerate your digital and technology impact: Our diverse teams of creative, industry and technology professionals combine deep business and industry insight with digital innovation to help you to embrace the right mindset and technologies to transform how you win.


• Get fit for growth: By applying a proven model for achieving cost transformation and operational improvement, we can help you to manage your company's cost in a more strategic way, allowing you to cut costs and grow stronger at the same time.


• Re-think operational effectiveness: We can work with you to re-think your operational effectivness, helping you to focus on forward, innovative thinking and an agile response to rapidly changing markets, transformational technologies and global cost structures.