The landscape for business is fraught with challenges from economic instability to talent shortages, a squeeze on profits, regulatory revisions, income inequality, new trade agreements, and political change—to name a few. Business leaders need to forge ahead with strategies and tactics to maximize their organizations’ growth, and this report provides a detailed analysis of those strategies CEOs from around the world are employing to do just that. Six key business issues were presented to respondents, who ranked not only their strategies to deal with each but the hot button issues that are on their minds as 2016 begins.

The landscape for business is fraught with challenges from economic instability to talent shortages, a squeeze on profits, regulatory revisions, income inequality, new trade agreements, and political change—to name a few. Business leaders need to forge ahead with strategies and tactics to maximize their organizations’ growth, and this report provides a detailed analysis of those strategies CEOs from around the world are employing to do just that. Six key business issues were presented to respondents, who ranked not only their strategies to deal with each but the hot button issues that are on their minds as 2016 begins.