Board Issues

A board's ability to see systemic trends early and move the company before the market does is a powerful governance advantage.

Although private leaders think AI will transform or disrupt their industries, the majority don’t feel organizationally prepared to deploy it (see chart below). As Nihar Dalmia, AI & Data Partner at Deloitte Canada, explains, “That gap reveals how AI is becoming the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity for the private sector.”

In an era of exponential and discontinuous change, boards must redesign how they think, decide and engage to become engines of long-term value creation.

Why AI strategies built on automation threaten long-term intelligence, talent and enterprise resilience.

Family businesses have long been stereotyped as tradition-bound and slow to change. But recent research paints a different picture: family-owned businesses, particularly small and medium-sized firms, are emerging as innovative powerhouses that can implement new ideas faster than their competitors.