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Global recession impacts new ventures in Indonesia: McKinsey
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possible global recession may impact the rate of business expansion for new ventures in Indonesia, global consulting firm McKinsey & Company finds in its latest study.
In a virtual press briefing on Thursday, the firm’s consultants mentioned that recession would constrain businesses' pool of resources for investment, which means that the amount of capital injections could go down.
“The reality is it [recession] will [impact],” McKinsey Asia senior partner and leader of Leap, Nimal Manuel, told reporters.
To mitigate this issue, Manuel added, companies are beginning to conduct tandem policies of efficiency on core business while also building new ventures using the resources saved from the efficiency.
Speaking at the same event, McKinsey Southeast Asia partner and Leap leader Vivek Lath said that, as companies are constrained in investing their capital, the recession creates a “fire in many other companies” about the need to refrain themselves from dependency on a single business model.
As a result, Lath said that while firms are constrained in resources, they would launch new business models to diversify their risk.
“Hence, they might launch initiative [to establish new ventures], but the pace at which they can deploy the resources might get more affected,” Lath continued.
