Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
What’s trending, for CEOs
Strategy | Economy
April 11, 2023 – What do top CEOs say will be the biggest trends affecting their business this year? Disruptive digital technologies, geopolitics, and the economy, according to results of McKinsey’s CEO Excellence Survey. Senior partner Carolyn Dewar and colleagues also note that areas such as supply chain disruptions are expected to have less of an influence on business in 2023.
To read the article, see “Actions the best CEOs are taking in 2023,” March 15, 2023.
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Visual form
Dot-matrix ranking chart.
Layout / body structure
The page is organized into three rows labeled high impact, medium impact, and low impact, with three topic panels in each row, and each panel built from a 10-by-10 dot grid.
What is being compared
It compares the trends CEOs say will have the biggest impact on how they lead their organizations in 2023, ranging from disruptive technology and inflation to war for talent, climate transition, supply chains, and social purpose.
Measurement system
The measure is percent of respondents, with each filled dot representing one percentage point inside a 100-dot grid and the exact value printed over each topic block.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each topic uses the same dot-matrix format, with blue filled dots climbing up from the bottom and gray dots left unfilled above them, so the reader can compare topic importance both by row placement and by the number of colored dots in each grid.
Main takeaway from the visual
The strongest concentration of filled dots sits in disruptive technology, the economy, and geopolitics, which visually separates those themes from the middle-tier topics like talent and climate and the smaller low-impact group at the bottom.
Key standout values or extremes
The high-impact row shows 58 percent for rise of disruptive digital technologies, 56 percent for risk of prolonged high inflation and economic downturn, and 47 percent for escalation of geopolitical risks; the lowest panel is persistence of the gender and racial gap in the economy at 7 percent.
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