This report makes clear that geopolitics is no longer a background risk - it is a core operating condition. We're moving into a world defined by constant friction and the businesses that will succeed will be the ones that design for it - not react to it. It is both a constraint and a catalyst for growth

Australian business had been tribal encamped- protected by the waters around us and the distance from Beijing, Washington, London and Moscow. Covid occurred and changed the way business is enacted and with that, a realisation that we are not immune to the events around the globe. Now the geopolitical impacts are impacting our supply lines, our input costs and customer confidence, not to mention our financial markets. We are no longer immune to world events, and this report highlight the pressures we face and the uncertainty ahead.

The hard truth in this report is that the environment has fundamentally changed and shifted faster than most organisations have - and leadership has to change with it. Awareness isn't the issue - decision-making and execution haven't kept pace. Embedding geopolitical thinking into strategy is no longer optional, it's a prerequisite for staying competitive.