Stepping up to the productivity challenge
KWM’s Directions 2025 Report: Stepping Up To The Productivity Challenge is your essential guide to what is ‘top of mind’ for Australian directors and senior business leaders.
Our 2025 edition is here - revealing that Australian businesses are relatively optimistic about embracing opportunities in the next 12 months, notwithstanding ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and economic headwinds.
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Directions 2025
Your essential guide to what is ‘top of mind’ for Australian directors and senior business leaders.
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Key findings include:
- AI implementation is the top-ranking medium-term priority, viewed primarily as a catalyst for productivity growth rather than pure cost-reduction.
- While AI adoption accelerates, maintaining an appropriate corporate culture and securing AI-ready talent risk slipping down the priority list, signalling a potential ‘cultural crossroads’ for corporate Australia.
- Australian businesses, government and regulators are increasingly engaging in joint problem-solving.
- Nearly half of respondents are conducting scenario-planning, diversifying supply chains and stress-testing capital sources to navigate a fragmenting global order and protect Australia’s relative ‘safe-haven’ status.
- Tackling red tape, regulatory duplication and approval delays were all identified as important levers to lift Australia’s productivity growth trajectory.
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Directions 2025
Your essential guide to what is ‘top of mind’ for Australian directors and senior business leaders.
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2.45MB, 22 Pages
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