C-Suite Outlook 2025: UK Edition

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C-Suite Outlook

C-Suite Outlook 2025: UK Edition

06 March 2025 / Report

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UK business executives are gearing up for ongoing economic and geopolitical challenges in 2025, according to C-Suite Outlook 2025: Seizing the Future from The Conference Board. Executives in the UK anticipate domestic inflation, deteriorating national debts worldwide, and local corporate taxation rates to have a significant impact on their business in the coming year. They also see the threat of trade wars, cyberattacks, and geopolitical tensions as adding to business volatility.

Key Insights

Executives in the UK report inflation, a slowing economy, and supply chain disruptions as the top economy-related issues expected to have an impact on their business operations in 2025.
Having had the highest-ever number of cyberattacks in 2024, the issue ranks second as a geopolitical risk for UK executives, after only an expansion of the war in the Middle East. Intensified global trade wars ranks third.

To fend off these risks, UK executives are prioritizing reducing costs, increasing operational resilience, and facilitating automation including AI as internal focuses in 2025. Retaining talent (31%) and reskilling (26%) are their two-top human capital priorities.
Following a clear global trend, 87% of UK executives say their organizations plan to alter their supply chains in 2025, mainly to reduce costs and lower the risk of disruptions.
Renewable energy and carbon neutrality are the two top environmental priorities for UK executives in 2025.

Author

Manali Paranjpe

Program Director, ESG Center, Europe
The Conference Board

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