From the Editor
Editor’s Note
Change is the only constant in our world, and business changes with it. This has ever been so. What is different today, however, is the sheer speed of it, which is truly extraordinary.
Technology is disrupting every industry, and companies are having to adapt rapidly to keep pace. Supply chains, hardly the sexiest aspect of business, once attracted little attention from industry outsiders. Today, they are firmly on the agenda in boardrooms and the corridors of power around the world.
This is also true of energy and its accompanying infrastructure, and of infrastructure more broadly. And then there’s manufacturing, shipping, and all other critical industries. Everywhere you look, everything is being rethought. From the smallest family businesses to the largest multinationals, companies and their people are adapting and refining their products, processes, services, and operations while keeping an eye on the trickiest bit of all: actually staying in business.
This is what fascinates us at Future Business.
Change isn’t an abstract idea or theory we read about. It is happening in real time as real companies and real people innovate and make decisions, make things, solve problems, and try to work out where the next opportunity lies in the face of ever-changing winds.
Across the entirety of the business spectrum, from mining and engineering to technology, aviation and logistics, construction, pharmaceuticals, defence, and banking and finance, the same forces are at play. All very different industries, but all increasingly connected ones.
In this edition of Future Business, we have spoken to people at the centre of these industries to find out what they’re building, their strategies for success going forward, and, most importantly of all, where they believe they are heading next.
I could continue and expand further about what’s inside, but there is, rather conveniently, a contents page for all that.
Enjoy the issue.