C-suite executives across seven countries and nine broad industry sectors gave us their views on key geopolitical and economic risks. Below we map risk their concern and their perception of preparedness by industry.
Explore how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large firms perceive and respond to key business risks. The charts illustrate shifts in concern and resilience across four major risk categories between January 2025 and January 2026. Notable differences emerge in how each group prioritises these risks and adapts to them, offering interesting insight into the evolving risk landscape and strategic preparedness across business sizes.
Data from 500 US-based executives surveyed in our Risk & Resilience survey conducted between January 6–20 2025. January 2026 figures are projections based on the January 2025 survey. Note: Risk percentages reflect executives’ top geopolitical and economic concerns. Resilience figures combine “very” and “moderately” prepared responses. SME firms are those with annual revenue between US$250,000 to 99.99m, large are those with an annual revenue of US$100m+.
500 US-based executives told us…
91% agreed that changes in the political landscape will affect their business’ ability to trade profitably – a sharp rise from 75% in January 2025.
81% believe the current geopolitical & economic uncertainty will limit their business’ growth plans – a sharp rise from 74% in January 2025.
87% of global execs expect to make changes to their suppliers or supply chains due to geopolitical tensions – up from 75% in January.
33% plan to reassess the security of their overseas operations this year, compared to 21% in 2024.
Data from 500 US-based executives surveyed in our 2024 and 2025 Risk & Resilience surveys. The 2025 research was conducted between January 6–20 and July 30–August 6. Note: the 'agree/believe and expect' stats are the 'strongly agree' and 'somewhat agree' answers combined.