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Can governments build resilience when disruptive forces keep raising the bar?

The same megatrends making governance more complex are also creating opportunities to strengthen governments, society and economies.

Spotlight on megatrends

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Governments and businesses are operating in what EY calls a NAVI environment — where change is increasingly nonlinear, accelerated, volatile and interconnected. EY Futures Reimagined links this disruption to four forces: technology, geopolitics, sustainability and demographics. Here, we highlight some impacts that are especially relevant to governments.

Treating migration as a strategic asset rather than a political problem is one of the boldest moves a government can make – with among the highest returns. The ones getting it right are thinking about migration the way they do about infrastructure.

Stig Thorgersen
EY Global Government & Infrastructure Consulting Leader

How shared intelligence will redefine talent

Today, talent is a collaboration between people and AI (“shared intelligence”) that requires employees to learn and adapt continuously. But with traditional learning systems built for 12- to 18-month cycles, organizations are at risk of “talent debt,” where skills fail to keep pace with their needs. Discover how to reframe capability.

Turning migration infrastructure into a competitive advantage

Faced with skills shortages and demographic shifts, governments increasingly rely on well-designed migration systems to support healthy labor markets and deliver effective public services. Explore how governments can strengthen resilience and competitiveness while maintaining public trust.

How the productivity reset will redefine value

In the last edition, we urged governments to treat higher productivity as an outcome across sectors. But with forces such as artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping what it means to be productive, governments will need to rethink their own operating models to help themselves and businesses achieve it.

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the estimated cost of talent debt in the US alone