Navigating Leadership Challenges Through Volatility

The challenges faced by small and medium enterprises navigating today’s volatile market can be overwhelming. In many cases, new opportunities emerge at the expense of existing value propositions, as disruptive technologies redefine new solution requirements. 

Many organizations miss the critical warning signs because of lack of resources that is frequently more committed to established processes than to the market. When the realities of emerging market imperatives become obvious, important questions must be immediately addressed:  

• What are the proper R&D allocations and new business development activities for your operations?
• What are the possible growth paths ahead either from within the organization or through outside mergers and acquisitions?
• Are the existing supply chains adequately insulated from disruption of tariff wars and pandemics?
• Do existing leadership teams have the experience and expertise to address the new realities of the marketplace?
• When disruptions negatively affect the organization -- what are the keys to avoiding short term decisions that have dramatic and unnecessary long-term consequences?

Getting the right answers at the right time is the key to correcting the course of small and medium enterprises that seek to respond effectively to the constant changes that are transforming the regional and global economies.