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You're facing a new era of instabilities with unclear trajectories. Various factors like the economic power shift towards China (and Asia more broadly), changes in US trade policy, and various military conflicts have led to geopolitical disruptions that have yet to find a new, trusted equilibrium. According to KPMG's 2024 Top Risks Forecast, global CEOs named global trade policy restrictions and vulnerabilities from global conflict as their most pressing future risk.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "18068b7b-932d-4d83-a2cd-aced691f018f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.3, "w": 0.3, "x": 0.35, "y": 0.55 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Heightened global tendencies towards nationalism and protectionism have led to bureaucratic frictions and new tariffs that have raised the costs of international trade. Nation-states use business subsidies and trade sanctions as measures of geostrategic competition. Growing populism in many democracies comes with implications for immigration and global talent mobility. And military conflicts are putting strains on supply chains, again leading to higher costs. According to Howden's 2024 Geopolitical Risk Report, the Russia-Ukraine conflict caused a three-fold increase in freight rates for certain routes and significantly insurance costs.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "221b45aa-a739-41b2-afa5-10d01dbdb37d", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.3, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.52 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The global order is changing. When your office air-conditioning breaks and can't be fixed because the necessary ball bearings are sourced from Ukraine, you'll feel the heat of geopolitical impact on supply chains first-hand. 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According to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2023), the US Inflation Reduction Act alone resulted in US$282 billion in investment in 2022, funding 280 clean energy projects across 44 US States.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "86979e8c-c454-4403-ab86-b1d435074232", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.2, "w": 0.3, "x": 0.65, "y": 0.23 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Climate risks and energy transition need your attention. Climate change presents long-term risks for most businesses: financially, in terms of access to investment capital; and physically, in terms of exposure to extreme weather events. BCG (2023) predicts that leading global corporations face a potential reduction in annual EBITDA of as much as 15% from extreme weather impacts. Aon points to significant under-insurance in global assets, quantifying the global protection gap against extreme weather at 69%, with a total of US$262 billion in uninsured losses globally in 2023.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ddc4414a-9040-43a9-a420-b9f3b544e9f2", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.3, "x": 0.65, "y": 0.08 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "If your organisation is exposed to international markets or depends on global supply chains for access to customers, suppliers, parts, resources or talent (and really, whose doesn't?), you'll need to understand the strategic impacts of geopolitical developments.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "e38e0bc6-2556-4c5e-9749-5dbd15d17e02", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.15, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.06 }, "kind": "title", "text": "BLOB 2: Solving problems of scale", "attrs": null, "subkind": "headline", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "273afa1a-12a3-4c2c-861c-0904c8881948", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 74, "from": 51, "beatId": "89273ddc-db58-4448-a111-babaaa59e32d", "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence", "beatName": "Action", "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-action", "evidence": "The document concludes with a call to action and next steps.", "position": 4, "confidence": 0.8, "parentBeatName": "Resolution", "parentBeatSlug": "resolution" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }