Operating outlooks
Using outlook-based perspectives understand how different global conditions reshape supply chain choices and stress-test strategies.
Corporate playbooks
Identifying practical approaches for building structural agility — from orchestration across partners to distributed capacity and optionality.
Country readiness
Helping leaders monitor country preparedness for future-ready manufacturing and supply chains using a shared data-driven lens.
Industrial strategies
Highlighting policy and partnership pathways that strengthen industrial ecosystems readiness and investment attractiveness.
Global Value Chains Outlook 2026: Orchestrating Corporate and National Agility
Global supply chains face a new operating reality – one defined by persistent volatility and disruptions embedded in the global economy. Leaders face a defining challenge: how can supply chains be designed to remain resilient, competitive and investable when uncertainty is not temporary, but structural?
From Minerals to Megawatts: Building Resilience for EVs, Data Centres and Power Grids
As electrification and digitalization accelerate, the supply of minerals and metals needed for electric vehicles (EVs), data centres and power grids is under increasing pressure. This paper tracks the key minerals required across these value chains and suggests how to strengthen their supply chains.
Beyond Cost: Country Readiness for the Future of Manufacturing and Supply Chains
Global value chains are undergoing a profound transformation in the wake of recent elections, escalating global conflicts, shifting sustainability priorities and the rapid adoption of transformative technologies like AI.