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Global M&A Industry Trends: 2022 Mid-Year Update
Strategy and growth | Transform now
As market headwinds grew stronger in the first half of 2022, the last six months of 2022 can be an opportunity for dealmakers to reassess their M&A strategy. PwC's Global M&A Industry Trends provides insightful commentary and suggestions for dealmakers to overcome current market obstacles.
Why the first five minutes of a meeting shape its outcome
To ensure a productive meeting, it is essential to create suitable and engaging conditions for necessary conversations to take place. Here are three ways for leaders to safely start any meeting off right.
Pedal to the metal
Strategy and growth | Reimagine digital
Amid the difficult times of rising global uncertainty and disruptions, companies usually consider hitting the brakes on decarbonisation plans to ensure short-term energy demands. However, PwC professionals offer convincing insights on why firms should do the opposite.
To improve management, build a decision factory
Strategy and growth | Transform now
As employees engage in more decision-making work, it is increasingly essential that leaders boost the workforce’s decision intelligence. Discover some advice on how managers can improve the company’s decision-making process.
Six reasons successful leaders love questions
Strategy and growth | Transform now
Questions can have more impacts on businesses than simply resolving queries. Here are six reasons why asking, listening to and answering questions are keys to wise decisions, high efficiency and empowering workplace.
What is your crisis quotient?
Strategy and growth | Transform now
Having high IQ and EQ have long been among the foundational characteristics of any leader. However, recent unsettlement and challenges suggest another trait that suitable leaders need to have: crisis quotient (CQ).
When the real problem isn’t the obvious one
The first step of solving a problem is to accurately identify what is the real challenge facing your business. But what should leaders do if they mistake the obvious yet unimportant issues with the hidden, but significant problems?
Envisioning the futures of retail banking
With various trends - nonbanks' digital wallets, cryptocurrencies, Big Tech, etc. - start playing out, it is impossible to predict how the future of retail banking will unfold. As the industry is reshaped, here are five hypothetical scenarios that PwC experts think leadership teams at incumbent retail banks should look ahead to help prepare for their future strategies.
PwC 2022 US Metaverse Survey
Reimagine digital | Transform now
The metaverse is not, in fact, the next big thing. That's because some metaverse building blocks offer opportunities right now. Others aren't yet mature, and the metaverse as a whole is far from complete, but PwC's inaugural Metaverse Survey finds consumers excited.
It’s an ad, ad, ad, ad world
Reimagine digital | Strategy and growth
While the traditional advertising industry is on the decline, digital advertising is thriving rapidly and is projected to grow into a US$1 trillion market by 2026. What changes would come with this growth of digital advertising? PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2022 - 2026 provides some striking insights about the current advertising business.
Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2022–2026: Fault lines and fractures
Strategy and growth | Transform now
Knowing the interests and demands of different stakeholders can help inform important business decisions. PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook provides valuable data and analysis of consumers and advertisers in the entertainment and media industry, so businesses can understand current industry trends and capitalise on new opportunities.
Asia Pacific NextGens – Becoming the future leaders your family business needs
Together with significant shifts caused by COVID-19 , family businesses also witnessed more #NextGens stepped up into leadership roles during the pandemic. What else can the young leaders and leaders-in-waiting do to lead their family legacy to greater heights? Find out more in our latest blog: “Becoming the future leaders your family business needs.”
Lessons in mismanagement
Risk and regulations | Strategy and growth
In periods of unexpected challenges, business managers - especially those at small firms and start-ups - might think "desperate times call for desperate measures". However, will such measures truly be beneficial? The film "Glengarry Glen Ross" presents a lesson of how not to mismanage in times of desperation.
Understanding emerging technology: Bitcoin and decentralised finance
Risk and regulations | Strategy and growth
Navigating the fast moving, ever changing cryptocurrencies or understanding their opportunities and challenges in business contexts can be taxing for business owners and leaders. Join our webinar to explore what Bitcoin is, some criticisms levelled at cryptocurrencies and the concept of decentralised finance and central bank digital currencies.
How the pandemic energised the fight for health equity
COVID-19 has shown that health inequities will be the cause for health, social and economical downfalls. The pandemic forced governments, healthcare systems, and companies to innovate at record speed. Find out how that momentum could power us into a more health-equitable future.
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