Developed by the Beyond the E working group, this resource helps ground SEM implementers, coaches and SEM in current issues and guide action along the way.
Resolve:
The need to determine the scale, pace, and depth of action required at the state and business levels.
As one CEO told us: “I know what to do. I just need to decide whether those who need to act share my resolve to do so.”
Resilience:
Leaders will need to make difficult “through cycle” decisions that balance economic and social sustainability, given that social cohesion is already under severe pressure from populism and other challenges that existed pre-coronavirus.
Return:
Leaders must reassess their entire business system and plan for contingent actions in order to return their business to effective production at pace and at scale.
Reimagination:
The crisis will reveal not just vulnerabilities but opportunities to improve the performance of businesses. Leaders will need to reconsider which costs are truly fixed versus variable, as the shutting down of huge swaths of production sheds light on what is ultimately required versus nice to have.
Reform:
Business leaders need to anticipate popularly supported changes to policies and regulations as society seeks to avoid, mitigate, and preempt a future health crisis of the kind we are experiencing today.