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Center for Future Readiness

Enabling organizations in every industry to navigate a reality of constant disruption. Producer of the Future Readiness Indicator.

Discover the Future Readiness Indicator

Center for Future Readiness

Enabling organizations in every industry to navigate a reality of constant disruption. Producer of the Future Readiness Indicator.

Discover the Future Readiness Indicator

Businesses are experiencing a series of seismic shifts as a result of global developments and must stay on top of industry trends to prosper. The Center for Future Readiness assists leaders in navigating rapid and frequent changes, enabling them to overcome challenges, foster innovation, and prosper amidst uncertainty. We produce the Future Readiness Indicator, designed to measure a company’s readiness for deep, long-term secular trends. Our insights also inform our programs on what it takes to be future ready.

Will EU tariffs on China EVs backfire on Europeans?

by Howard Yu, IMD

Future ready? A methodical approach will repay you

by Howard Yu, I by IMD

Western EV manufacturers have much to learn from their Chinese counterparts

by Howard Yu, I by IMD

New Event

Is your organization engineering its own luck?

IMD Global Future Readiness Forum in partnership with Merlin Entertainments Group and CNBC

26 November 2024

Learn more

Featured video

“As they say in business, innovate or die.”

Professor Howard Yu, Director of the IMD Center for Future Readiness, talks with @BBC News about the future-ready businesses highlighted in IMD’s 2024 Future Readiness Indicator.

Find out which companies are ready for 2024

Our latest Future Readiness Indicator includes six industries. We publish original findings, and the rankings are made public so that companies can upload their own data to benchmark themselves against the most forward-thinking firms.

Financial Services

Automotive

Consumer Packaged Goods

What does it take to stay ahead in a world of dramatic transformation?

New data highlights how leaders in the finance, automotive, and consumer packaged goods sectors are readying themselves for a world of dramatic transformation

News Stories

A game of inches: Future readiness is a ‘work in progress’

Industry leaders came together in Milan to discuss how organizations from all sectors can deliver today and transform for tomorrow by anticipating megatrends, scaling up capabilities, and honing their mental agility.

News Stories

Howard Yu recognized with 2023 Thinkers50 Strategy Award

IMD Professor Howard Yu received the award at the organization’s biennial gala in London, which also celebrated the induction of Professor Michael D Watkins into the Thinkers50 Management Hall of Fame.