Paths to sustainable growth
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on most industry sectors. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Accenture, is convening business leaders in seven Industry Action Groups covering 10 industry sectors to chart a path to recovery and sustainable growth.
View our insights by Industry Action Group
Banking and capital markets
The pandemic has set the stage for a looming credit crisis. Capital markets has an opportunity to help economies and also re-invent itself.
Why banks need a strategy to balance clients’ critical needs and those of shareholders and society.
Our Forum article looks at how banks can creatively develop funding solutions for liquidity-strapped clients.
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Consumer industries
CPGs need to revisit consumer segments, their portfolios and their partners to strengthen growth.
Our Forum article shares the framework for collective action towards a better and more resilient future.
Adaptive Retail—for new expectations, new ways of working and new climates.
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Media, entertainment and sports
The World Economic Forum and Accenture recently published a series of papers examining the changes across the media and platforms ecosystem.
Read the series from The World Economic Forum:
- The Future of Media: A New Framework for Valuing Content
- Building Back Better: An Action Plan for the Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry
- Media and entertainment in flux: it's time for the close-up
- The Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry’s Response and Role in a Society in Crisis
- COVID-19 has upended the media industry. This is how it can come back stronger
To better examine complex networks in the media industry, this Value Map represents the major roles involved in content creation and distribution.
Oil and gas
Accenture and the World Economic Forum are working together to navigate the path to recovery from COVID-19 and have formed the Oil and Gas Industry Action Group (IAG). The IAG is comprised of more than 30 CEOs across national oil companies, international oil companies, independents and oilfield services companies focused on monitoring the evolution of the crisis, identifying specific actions and sharing key findings through blogs, reports and the “Pulse of the Oil and Gas Industry” trends.
How can the oil and gas sector help to build back better?
Reinventing the oil and gas industry: compounded disruption
Electricity
Accenture supported the World Economic Forum’s Electricity Industry Action group in creation of the System Value framework, which more holistically evaluates economic, environmental, social and technical outcomes of potential energy solutions. The framework can be used to support a diverse range of activities including investment decisions, policy decisions, as well as public-private dialogues between business, regulators and policy makers on solutions to accelerate economic growth and a clean energy transition.
World Economic Forum – The path to maximize system value
Blog: How can we maximize the benefits of a system value approach?
Blog: Industrial clusters are critical to getting to net-zero. Here’s why
Blog: System value can power the energy transition in emerging markets
Mining and metals
Prepare for disruption through new approaches to work, a connected value chain, and a clear sense of purpose.
Our leaders explain how mining and metals companies can create a roadmap to resilience and pivot to the future in a post COVID-19 world.
Chemical and advanced materials
Boosting the impact of stimulus packages
The chemical and materials industry is at the heart of many global value chains and acts as a solution provider to other sectors of the economy.
As such, it can play a significant part in maximizing the reach and impact of COVID-19 stimulus packages around the world.
We explore steps that chemical industry leaders can take to build back better and secure its role post-COVID.
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Our leaders
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Bernd Elser
Managing Director – Chemicals, Global and Europe Lead and Natural Resources, Europe Lead
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