Build Scenario-Based Decision Making for Supply Chain Resilience

Boston Consulting Group (Nov 13, 2024) "Five Dynamics That Will Test CEOs in 2025" lays out five forces shaping the year: trade, tariffs and supply-chain strategy (scenario-based decision-making against multiple policy outcomes); AI and growth, with AI and gen-AI ranking among top-three objectives for 75% of business leaders in 2025; climate imperatives, with BCG estimating extreme weather could reduce global EBITDA by 25% over the next 25 years; cost management, with a third of surveyed executives citing cost reduction as their most critical priority and 40% feeling unprepared for potential market shocks; and workplace unity, as political and social polarisation seeps into the office. Direct read-out for SEA mid-market boards setting 2025 supply-chain and cost agendas.