Spencer Stuart: Leadership Insights for the Global Infrastructure Industry

In today’s global, digitally charged world, infrastructure projects are taking on new dimensions, while the industry is shifting to meet new and varied needs. The infrastructure industry faces both internal challenges, such as talent shortages, and external pressures, such as keeping pace with technology advancements.

To gain insight into the industry’s current state, Spencer Stuart interviewed 10 CEOs or chairmen of infrastructure companies across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific and surveyed globally more than 100 infrastructure CEOs, CFOs and board members, across engineering and construction, financial investors, asset operators and equipment and material suppliers.

The findings reveal a sector on the cusp of significant change such as:

• An industry challenged with changing market conditions, including new funding models, increasing regulations and location specific issues.
• An evolving leadership profile, requiring first-rate management of teams as well as projects, a focus on the consumer and a commercial, strategic, technology and media skill-set suitable to managing increased demands from new and existing stakeholders.
• The need for an organizational capability aimed at attracting and retaining talent, while also further developing existing talent.

To read the full report by Arnaud Despierre, Hugh Thorneycroft, Suzanne M. Burns, Jordan L. Brugg, York von Wangenheim click here.