Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Innovation and Leadership (GIL) Global Initiative and GIL MX 2019 and its theme “The Future of Business” prepares the organization- accelerating Innovation to Revolutionize Customer Engagement, Workforce and Business Strategies.

Companies often overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will happen in the next 10 years. Consolidation is inevitable across most industries that leverage digital technologies in multiple market segments. If companies are to thrive amid rapid transformation, they must reorient the relationships between society, government, and the way we do business. The ability to understand these global Mega Trends and key transformative themes and their impact on human lives over the next decade allows companies to better prepare for a future of growth.

In this session, Frost & Sullivan Futurists will discuss the 12 transformational themes emerging from our universe of Mega Trends along with real-world scenarios. We will also cover the implications and outcomes of these transformations across industries and business types.

Key Take-Aways:

• How to effectively approach these points of disruption and outline a mechanism to act.
• The core trends that will drive opportunities over the next decade.
• The tools that translate trends into optimal growth potential.
• How companies can embrace trends as innovation fuel to drive new ideation and support existing initiatives.

This case study focuses on successful digital transformation while revealing the main challenges faced by the organization’s leadership in various key strategic areas from strategic planning, customer understanding, business model redesign to the collaborative relationship between the CEO and the CIO.

Key Take-Aways:

• Highlight the main success factors as well as the biggest challenges to digital transformation.
• Identify the organizational pathway to align the organization for change.
• Discuss the strategic, leadership and talent decision-making process.

The Government of Mexico seeks to increase Mexico’s competitiveness through talent development that can enable the country’s manufacturing workforce faces in an era of automation and artificial intelligence.

Key Take-Aways:

• Understand the strategic decisions to attract and retain new talent.
• Identify the mechanisms to re-train current workforce.
• Learn how public policy can enable the skills required for the future of work.

Under the new disruption, we are not only experiencing a change of the business cycle. We are deeply immersed in an economic, political and social restructure. This series seeks to highlight three main elements of a successful transformation into high-quality Customer Experience, delivered by experts in each field. The moderator will recap and make integral conclusion of the session to help the audience summarize the main takeaway.

Key Take-Aways:

• The discussion will provide important recommendations on how the new economy is an economy of customer experience to gain a competitive advantage as well as the increasing importance of privacy and cybersecurity.
• Understand the importance of business model redesign in order successfully deliver strong value propositions.
• Explore how digital technologies are enabling personalization and customer-centric strategies.

This debate focuses on the need for organizations of all sizes to consider corporate governance and social responsibility for positive social impact as important pillars for economic development.

Key Take-Aways:

• Identify the new social challenges faced by corporations in an increasingly regulated economy.
• Discuss the benefits of implementing socially responsible programs.
• Highlight the main pillars to improve a company’s community affairs strategy.

This panel seeks to hold a conversation on how global factors impact regional and local economies and identify innovation as a critical factor to grow in increasing competitive markets.

Key Take-Aways:

• Identify the new social challenges faced by corporations in an increasingly regulated economy.
• Discuss the benefits of implementing socially responsible programs.
• Highlight the main pillars to improve a company’s community affairs strategy.

Participants and Frost & Sullivan thought leaders host discussions on relevant industry issues. Dine and dish with industry experts. The list of discussion topics will be available on site.

Key Take-Aways:

• Excellent moment to personalize the discussion with current colleagues.
• Perfect opportunity to meet new and valuable contacts.
• Consider hosting a full table with key contacts under the Capitan’s Table.

Digital Transformation is not only a temporary shift of the economy. Today, we are facing a complete restructuring of our economic, social, business and political landscape. Strategy is the main driver of transformation, not technologies.

Today, we are not only experimenting a change in the business cycle, but rather we are living a profound transformation of our political, social and economic cycle. Incumbents are being threaten in different areas by different types or companies not typically seen as direct competitors. Bold movers are utilizing digital technologies to redefine business models and leadership perspective, but most importantly the agile, fast and adaptable companies are redefining how to deliver more value to customers.

ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE?