Chief Strategy Officer Survey 2024
As the world faces heightened uncertainty, CSOs are optimistic, resilient, and evolving
Over the last year, uncertainty has been all over the news, with global markets sending mixed and occasionally confusing signals. These signals speak to the challenges facing strategy and business leaders today—how to create advantage and capture value in a landscape characterized by disruptive technologies, geopolitical and economic uncertainty, changing consumer and stakeholder expectations, and complex policies and regulations around sustainability, tech, and data. In this environment, we conducted our fifth annual global survey of chief strategy officers (CSOs).
CSO Survey 2024
CSOs offer unique perspectives that can resonate across many organizations, which is why we survey them year after year. Often reporting directly to the CEO, CSOs advise on special projects, collaborate cross-functionally on high-impact decisions, lead corporate development, keep a pulse on markets, and are increasingly responsible for the execution of these strategies.
In this year’s survey, we set out not only to pulse strategy leaders on their outlooks, growth agendas, and focus areas but also to better understand how they are adapting their approaches to strategy in the face of these pressures. In a recent Monitor Deloitte report, “Strategy Now,” we explored how strategy is changing and outlined the new options, challenges, and opportunities for strategy leaders. That report suggests strategy should be resilient, agile, inclusive, and bold to better match the challenges businesses face today. We wanted to explore this assertion in this year’s survey data.
Here’s what we found: CSOs surveyed offered optimism, resilience, and a commitment to evolution.
Key takeaways
Inside Deloitte’s 2024 Chief Strategy Officer Survey
Explore the priorities, investments, and gaps CSOs are managing today, and learn what they tell us about the strategic imperatives they’re facing.
About Deloitte’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Program
The role of the CSO and the role of strategy as a corporate function continues to evolve, as CSOs are getting an increasingly important role in the C-suite and are expected to set the short- and long term direction for the business. Whether you are a CSO seeking to build your strategy function, enhance your organization’s strategic planning capability, or pursue a specific growth mandate, we can leverage our long heritage in strategy and a range of proprietary tools to help you succeed.
