This report focuses on the equity investments and advisory services of Goldman Sachs in medium and large-scale enterprises. While the firm has a record of outstanding performance in its business overall; from the vantage points of global trends to the variables of potential disruptions, this report evaluates how the firm may already be facing light headwinds that will tend to increase significantly in the long-term.
Global challenges that are just brewing up include cybersecurity and artificial intelligence while localized issues range from mission dynamics, human and corporate resource, productivity, market and finance disruptions. As artificial intelligence technology matures, we are headed to the point where everyone has similarly equal access to information and methodologies that were previously confidential. How do we compete if we are all privy to the same strategies? With artificial intelligence increasing the capacity of computing prowess significantly, what will be the exponential degree of cybercrime escalation? As many professionals become redundant what could be the potential and consequences for mass human dissension.
While it is not yet clear how such global challenges may impact the economics of tomorrow, more than is rational has already been invested in anticipation of high dividends. With such magnitude of underlining unknowns, the current methodologies for risk assessment and mitigation will certainly be inefficient hence the essence of new calculus for computing the path through these emerging realities.
Goldman Sachs furnishes investments through the prudent processes of the Investment Committee for Investments, Criteria, Structure and Allocation of Opportunities and while the firm has incorporated awareness of the recent pandemic related work-from-home challenges, cybersecurity threats and extreme weather to factor in their corporate diligence, it would soon be apparent and catch many by surprise that the overall dynamics of enterprise success is forever changed…
Full report by Kenneth Walley is available only to Goldman Sachs and may be requested by email to kwalley@cibunet.com
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