
AI in operations
Discover how AI is revolutionising manufacturing by boosting productivity, cutting costs, and driving innovation. Explore key insights from 400+ global executives.
Discover how AI is revolutionising manufacturing by boosting productivity, cutting costs, and driving innovation. Explore key insights from 400+ global executives.
M&A activity in industrials and services looks set to be a growth story in 2025, as companies step up efforts to expand, consolidate and refine portfolios.
M&A in 2025: Big deals, winning hands, and wild cards. Megadeal momentum returns to the market—but dealmakers will need to expect the unexpected.
Deal activity is expected to remain stable for the second half of 2024, supported by divestitures and transformative transactions.
The M&A show must go on. Save the date! M&A activity will bounce back—it’s just a matter of when, and how dealmakers can prepare.
John B. Riggs, CTO and SVP of Applied Technology Solutions at HSB (Hartford Steam Boiler), describes how the company is using technology to build new ventures and create new business models in the historically risk-averse insurance sector.
Strategic investments, primarily in innovative tech and electric mobility, coupled with portfolio reviews and divestitures will drive M&A activity in 2024.
The M&A starting bell has rung. Are you ready? Successful dealmakers should look forward, not back, as we enter a new phase of dealmaking in 2024.
Deal activity is expected to continue at a stable pace in near term driven by strategic investments, divestitures, and transformative transactions.
Bold doesn’t need to be big: with a drop in megadeals, executives are counting on mid-market M&A to drive strategic transformation and accelerate growth.
Now is not the time to fall out of love with M&A. 2023 will be an exciting time for M&A, with transformation and transactions at the forefront of CEOs’ value creation strategies.
Portfolio optimisation and divestitures will be high on CEOs’ agendas in 2023, along with strategic M&A investments, primarily in tech and ESG-related areas.
Here’s how financial institutions can rebalance a portfolio for net-zero commitments while managing the impact on people, the planet, and profits.
CEO and managing director S.N. Subrahmanyan on how technology and sustainability are creating new opportunities.
Robust M&A activity is expected in 2022 as strategic portfolio review and ESG are deemed essential to long-term value creation in the Industrial manufacturing and Automotive sectors.
After a record-breaking year for M&A in 2021, optimism for another supercharged year in 2022 remains, despite growing market headwinds.
What does the future of manufacturing look like? In PwC’s COO Pulse Survey, we reveal the plans and priorities of global manufacturing executives.
It's time for B2B companies to rethink their value chains. PwC offers six ways B2B companies can use customers’ experiences more deeply and use it to shape strategy. Learn more.
As 5G is rolled out we look into how will it affect your country and industry. Download our 5G Economic Impact Report and try out our data explorer tool to get up to speed on the quantifiable impact of 5G through 2030.
Experts from across PwC participated in the virtual GMIS 2020 Digital Series to discuss the acceleration of the shift towards 'glocalisation'.
In a recent PwC survey, CEOs reported plans for their companies to become more digital and flexible—and more employee focused.
Focus on six organizational elements to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.
AI can provide the tools to understand the present, model the future and enhance decision making at every level.
As workplaces, customer behaviors, and economic conditions continue to change in response to COVID-19, companies should focus on three key actions. Visit strategy+business to find out more.
AI is gradually being implemented in almost every aspect of our lives. Its applications are everywhere and its uses are constantly evolving. We discuss the six building blocks for successfully implementing AI.
No manufacturer can ignore 5G's potential in realising many of the technologies and processes coming to the factory in the near future.
US Manufacturers are reassessing their global supply chains to build in greater resiliency, serve customers better, and cut costs.
The pandemic is forcing companies to focus on experiences their clients expect, while mobilizing them to accelerate product and service innovation. Visit strategy+business to find out more.
Industrial manufacturing businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic. However, the time to put in place post-crisis plans is now.
To succeed in this evolving marketplace, companies need to transform linear supply chains into autonomous supply chain ecosystems.
Our survey of 100 IPS execs finds that product diversification drives 39% of deals in this industry. But, do these deals create value? Read our M&A insights.
Li & Fung CEO Spencer Fung has explicitly championed a digital transformation of one of the world’s most influential global logistics platform companies. Visit strategy+business to find out more.
Manufacturing organisations realise the role digitalisation must play in improving their performance, with data, integration and problem solving as the core drivers.
Our 'Seeing is believing' report explores how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will add value to the economy by 2030. As well as the benefits it will bring to industries such as healthcare, energy, retail and training and development.
With robust double-digit growth expected for the next several years, metals 3D printing is poised to disrupt many existing manufacturing processes and to become a fundamental part of how metal products are made in the digital age.
If industrial companies want to keep up with global competition, they must develop innovative, customer-focused products and services at ever-shorter intervals. Find out what separates Digital Champions from other businesses in terms of digital product development.
Senior executives need to lead a workforce that seamlessly blends human talent and automation. Visit strategy+business to read more.
Senior executives need to lead a workforce that seamlessly blends human talent and automation. Visit strategy+business to read more.
The interlinked platforms that make up Industry 4.0 represent a new kind of challenge for manufacturers and other technology-intensive companies. With four key business ecosystems, they can make this new world their own.