This tri-sector summary looks specifically at how CEOs in Technology, communications, and entertainment & media companies view and are addressing the challenges facing them, and how their thoughts compare with generic responses across all industry sectors.
Executives’ levels of strong confidence in their companies’ prospects for revenue growth in the short term vary between Technology, communications, and entertainment & media companies. Technology CEOs are the most confident, with 60 percent saying they are very confident of achieving revenue growth over the next 12 months, compared to a global average of 50 percent across all industries. This finding reflects the unrelenting demand for new technologies, especially in the emerging markets. Communications CEOs are almost as confident, with 59 percent professing themselves very confident of revenue growth. However, only 38 percent of Entertainment and Media (E&M) CEOs are very confident, well below the average for all industries.
