{
  "id": 10747265,
  "title": "Daily Insight for CEOs: Preparing the organisation for 2027",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/daily-insight-for-ceos-preparing-the-organisation-for-2027",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T17:50:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/daily-insight-for-ceos-preparing-the-organisation-for-2027/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Effective CEOs initiate preparations for the upcoming year during the final months of the current year. This strategy allows for the absorption of vital data on market trends, organizational strengths and weaknesses, financial health, customer demands, workforce skills, and potential growth prospects. Armed with this information, CEOs can strategically outline the priorities, capabilities, and investments necessary to steer the organization towards success in the ensuing year.\n\nTo accomplish this, CEOs should reflect on past year experiences, pinpoint emerging opportunities and looming threats, outline preliminary strategic priorities for the next year, determine the future capabilities the organization needs, and synchronize financial planning with these strategic goals.\n\nLeadership must actively engage in conversations surrounding the 2027 priorities. It is crucial to identify areas of organizational enhancement and question prevailing beliefs about future growth. A practical approach is for the leadership team to ponder the question, “What must be true for our organization to achieve its most important objectives in 2027?”\n\nThe rationale behind early preparation is clear. It fosters strategic clarity and provides organizations with ample time to harmonize their people, resources, and capabilities around future priorities. Ernest De-Graft Egyir, CEO advisor, Thought Leader, and Founding CEO of the Chief Executives Network Ghana, emphasizes this approach. He convenes the Ghana CEO Summit and has contributed to Ghana’s Economic Dialogue Planning Committee.",
  "summary": "Effective CEOs do not wait until December to begin preparing for the next business year.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}