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This report is based on responses from CEOs, presidents, and chairmen to The Conference Board CEO Challenge® survey, distributed between September and November 2012. Respondents were asked to rank order their top five challenges, a change from the 2012 survey when they were asked to give only their top three.

To reach the aggregate ranking of challenges and to develop an importance-adjusted score, two additional computations were conducted. First, to reflect the rank¬ing of the challenges by the respondents, each challenge was assigned a weight: if a particular challenge was ranked one, it was given a weight of five, a number two rank was given a weight of four, and a ranking of number three was given a weight of three, and so forth through the top five. (Challenges that were not ranked by respon¬dents among the top five received zero weight.)

Second, ***each weighted score was then assigned an additional weight based on the share of respondent’s country GDP*** as a proportion of all countries represented in the survey sample relative to the share of that country’s respondents in the total of 729 responses. Similar weights were assigned to regions, industry sectors, and revenue groups.

For greater insight into how CEOs plan to meet their challenges, respondents were also asked rank order five critical “strategies” (or strategic priorities) for meeting each of their top five challenges, which were weighted in the same way as the challenges.
We acknowledge that a survey of 729 respondents cre¬ates limitations regarding the statistical significance of the rankings. Therefore, the results presented are mostly for groupings of more than 50 respondents. In particular, for the smaller samples, the rankings provide a qualitative and directional indication of the importance of challenges.
Two additional adjustments were made in the list of challenges presented to respondents in the 2013 survey. Operational Excellence replaced the more narrowly defined Cost Optimization as a challenge, as did Trust in Business for Investor Relations. Changes were also made in several of the strategy lists to better reflect the reality of the business environment.


ΓΕΝΙΚΟΤΕΡΑ, ΔΕΝ ΕΙΜΑΙ ΣΙΓΟΥΡΗ ΓΙΑ ΟΛΗ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΤΑΣΗ:
Δεύτερον, κάθε βαθμολογία με μονάδα βαρύτητας αποκτούσε μια ακόμη μονάδα σύμφωνα με το ποσοστό ΑΕΠ της χώρας του ερωτηθέντα σε αναλογία με όλες τις χώρες που παρουσιάζονται στο δείγμα της έρευνας όσον αφορά το ποσοστό των ερωτηθέντων της χώρας σε σύνολο 729 απαντήσεων.