White Papers

Empowering Public-Private Collaboration in Infrastructure: National Infrastructure Acceleration (NIA) approach

The Forum’s National Infrastructure Acceleration (NIA) project, using a model developed and tested across its various national workstreams, designed a standa...

Data Policy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Insights on personal data

Development of comprehensive data policy necessarily involves trade-offs. Cross-border data flows are crucial to the digital economy. The use of data is crit...

Delivering the Goods: E‑commerce Logistics Transformation

Transport and delivery services are critical for ensuring goods ordered online reach the consumer and are returned when something is not right. This paper pr...

Systems Leadership and Platforms: How to mobilize people to transform systems and build the platforms to scale these efforts

This paper will explore some of the leadership and platform-design principles required. It features examples of systems leaders who are already working in th...

Global Value Chain Policy Series Regulatory Coherence

The global economy is characterized by international production networks, where firms operate through trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and strategic pa...

Accelerating Sustainable Production

Learn about the opportunities that Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies could bring to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and its resident companies to ...

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 focuse...

Agile Cities: Preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The world is urbanizing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming life at an unprecedented rate. Cities must be “agile” – able to move quickly and...

Global Value Chain Policy Series: Gender

Women have been drawn into global value chains (GVCs) at every level. The expansion of GVCs has changed the gender pattern of work across production, distrib...

Trade Tech – A New Age for Trade and Supply Chain Finance

This White Paper – a joint initiative of the Supply Chain and Transport industries and the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of International Trade and...

Shaping ASEAN’s Future Readiness

The Appropriate Use of Customer Data in Financial Services

The Appropriate Use of Customer Data in Financial Services is the result of multiple senior leadership discussions and 50+ expert interviews with executives ...