FUTURE TRENDS AND WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS: WHAT THE BEST BUSINESS STRATEGY SPEAKERS ARE WORKING ON

Want to know what projects the best business strategy speakers are working on these days? We’re always interested in hearing what our peers are up to as well. So we took a quick poll of futurists, industry consultants and some of the field’s best-known virtual keynote speaking pros to find out. The way the best business strategy speakers tell it, types of projects for business strategists and consulting futurists to highlight in their talks and advisory work include:

• Industry disruption response – Helping a company respond to a major disruption that transformed competitive dynamics in their industry.
• New market entry strategy – Crafting an innovative strategy for a company to expand into a new geographic or customer segment market. Very popular among today’s best business strategy speakers.
• Digital transformation initiative – Leading the enterprise-wide transformation of a company’s business model, processes and capabilities to leverage digital technologies.
• Merger integration strategy – Strategizing how to integrate two merging companies’ operations, cultures and business models.
• Spin-off launch – Architecting the strategy for a new company being spun off from its parent organization.
• Innovation ecosystem design – Creating frameworks to capture ideas from across a company and rapidly prototype new products, services and business models. Another hot topic with the best business strategy speakers.
• Organizational redesign – Reimagining a company’s organizational structure, talent strategies, decision rights and operating model to support its strategy.
• Strategic foresight – Developing future scenarios, insights and options regarding technological, geopolitical and industry changes that could impact strategy.
• New competitive strategy – Formulating a strategy to disrupt an industry or outcompete established players by bringing a differentiated value proposition to market.
• Corporate Venture Capital – Designing and implementing a corporate venture capital arm focused on strategic investments in emerging companies.

Among the best business strategy speakers, we’re told that the most compelling case studies demonstrate how strategy delivered substantial value and positive impact during times of uncertainty and change.