The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the consumption landscape by creating opportunities for value through game-changing technologies. With consumer spending driving approximately 60% of global GDP, embracing the power of technology to create value is paramount to ensuring progress throughout developed and emerging economies. Our Platform, with an engagement of over 150 organizations, has prioritized specific initiatives to leverage this opportunity.

Together we work to meet consumer expectations amid changing demographics. We drive the adoption of new technologies poised to transform value chains (from artificial intelligence to the internet of things and blockchain).

Our Platform supports innovative customer relationship models, while addressing trust and transparency concerns in the world of big data. With our Members and Partners, we tackle ensuing societal challenges including urban-rural divides, environmental degradation due to overconsumption, and worker reskilling to mitigate inequality.

Lié Projets

Global Plastic Action Partnership

8 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the ocean each year. By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean—if we do not take urgent, collective action. Co-founded by pa...

Financing the Transition to a Net Zero Future

Climate change is among the most disruptive forces shaping the 21st century, with seismic implications for corporate business models and capital allocation for the foreseeable future. In ...

Loop

The Loop Initiative aims to establish a new model of consumption that ends society’s dependence on disposability and eliminates the idea of waste. By doing so, it supports responsible con...

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets

The Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets is a multi-year project which focuses on the evolution of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, ASEAN) that comprise ove...

Consumers and Climate Change

BackgroundThe Consumers & Climate Change initiative convenes leaders from consumer-centric businesses and leading experts committed to advancing climate-friendly consumption behaviors...

Preparing for the Future of Work in Consumer Industries

As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being carried out by machines, causing growi...

Healthy Cities and Communities

The World Health Organization (WHO) has noted that health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely an absence of disease and infirmity”. Currently, p...

Precision Consumer 2030

New 4IR advancements in biometric technologies and data have opened up opportunities for consumers to hyper-personalize and tailor services towards healthier outcomes in ways never before...

Data for Common Purpose Initiative (DCPI)

Challenge:Many institutions have focused their attention and resources mostly on data protection and privacy. Not only has this approach failed to harness the full value of data, but it h...

Lié Rapports

Vision Towards a Responsible Future of Consumption: Collaborative action framework for consumer industries

The global pandemic has underscored the underlying and persistent problems that predated COVID-19 and have exacerbated its effects: climate change; pollution; inequity and inequality; poo...

Rapport — 29 octobre 2020

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets: ASEAN

This report sheds light on one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world - ASEAN. ASEAN is expected to become the world’s fourth-largest economy and the third most populous by ...

Rapport — 5 juin 2020

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets: India

This report sheds light on one of the fastest growing economies in the world - India. By 2030, India will see a tremendous jump in consumer spending driven by increased incomes, a billion...

Rapport — 7 janvier 2019

Bio-Innovation in the Food System: Towards a New Chapter in Multistakeholder Collaboration

Mindful of the systemic nature of the nutrition, food security and environmental challenges faced by today's food system, the present discussion paper focuses more specifically on the fut...

Rapport — 21 septembre 2018

Operating Models for the Future of Consumption

This report highlights how increasingly empowered consumers and rapidly emerging technologies are bringing dramatic and accelerating change to the fundamental structure of business and op...

Rapport — 5 mars 2018

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets: China

This report argues that China will have the world’s largest middle class fueled by income-growth in the next 10 years.

Rapport — 5 mars 2018

Shaping the Future of Retail for Consumer Industries

This report highlights the game-changing technologies which will fundamentally change how retail and consumer brands do business over the next decade and shape new frontiers for physical ...

Rapport — 15 janvier 2017

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15 oct. 2020

Dans le luxe, la reprise se prépare d’abord sur mobile

Plus le confinement dur et plus les changements qu’il implique dans nos façons de vivre et de travailler risquent de s’ancrer durablement dans notre quotidien. Alors que le m-commerce éta...

Henri Foucaud · Forbes France 07 mai 2020

Shaping the Future of Consumption