Socio-cultural - supply chain disasters and disruptions, workforce and supply restrictions, migration and refugees, collaborations, cultural challenges, mental health, building resilience
Technological developments – digitalisation, AI and automation, semi-conductors, blockchain, supply side innovation and transformation, dependence on fossil energies, net zero and renewable energy supplies
Economic – impact of business model innovations and demand side management (e.g. product-service-systems) on supply chains, circular economy, emerging markets, demand side, decline of markets, Global South, access to key materials (e.g., rare earth), inflation, dynamism in performance (time), different sectors at different stages of transition, regenerative dynamics
Political – regulations, geopolitical upheaval, decline of globalism, supply chains as a tool of conflict
