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The Leading Edge

New roles of the subsidiary to drive transformation for global enterprises.

Subsidiaries are an important lever to enterprises to increase their Capacity for Change and enhance their Ability to Win. This paper discusses the three subsidiary archetypes to transition the subsidiary as a resource deployer to future states aligned to Exponential Enterprises.

Deloitte’s recent study The Exponential Enterprise establishes that winning enterprises are successfully navigating the polycrisis by leveraging their Capacity for Change to reinforce their Ability to Win through an ‘always-on’ transformation capability.

Exponential Enterprises will leverage their subsidiaries as an important lever for increasing their Capacity for Change, enhancing their Ability to Win, and supporting their ‘always-on’ transformation capability. To activate this lever, a new relationship paradigm must be established that is more integrated, seamless, real-time, and bidirectional. We offer three subsidiary archetypes to transition from the current state of subsidiary as a resource deployer to future states aligned to the aspirations of Exponential Enterprise:

Read the paper to explore and understand each role in more detail.

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