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# Singapore Business Federation launches Future Ready Business Index
- URL: https://www.southeastasiaconnect.com/singapore-future-ready-business-index-2026/
- Published: 2026-10-02T01:37:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T01:37:05.000Z
- Author: Lars Voedisch
- Tags: News, #google-news, Singapore, Business

The [Singapore Business Federation](https://www.sbf.org.sg/?ref=southeastasiaconnect.com) has launched the Future Ready Business Index, a diagnostic tool it says is designed to help Singapore enterprises assess readiness, identify capability gaps and prioritise transformation work.

According to the SBF’s launch announcement, the index sits within its wider Future Ready Business platform. The platform is intended to link assessment with dialogue, peer learning, targeted programmes and ecosystem partnerships. That is a launch of an assessment and connection mechanism, rather than evidence that participating firms have completed a transformation programme or achieved a measured commercial result.

The index assesses readiness across six areas: business performance, international growth, technology, talent, sustainability and social impact. SBF said businesses receive a personalised assessment that identifies priority capability gaps and recommended areas for action. The organisation developed the index with Boston Consulting Group, in partnership with DBS Bank, Enterprise Singapore and RSM Singapore.

For business operators, the useful near-term question is practical. A diagnostic can help a leadership team compare its stated priorities with the capabilities it needs to build, then identify which advisory, financing, internationalisation or workforce programmes may be relevant. It does not replace an individual eligibility assessment, a funding decision or an implementation plan.

The broader Future Ready Business platform includes closed-room leader and policymaker discussions, company visits, workshops and thematic tracks, plus a marketplace intended to connect firms with solutions and partners. SBF also said its early insights from the first 100 companies to complete the index suggested that strategy, workforce capability and financial readiness need to be considered together. Those findings describe the organisation’s early assessment set; they do not establish results across Singapore businesses generally.

The next evidence point is whether users publicly report how the assessment changes a defined operating decision or leads to a specific programme, partner engagement or capability investment. Until then, the confirmed development is the availability of a structured readiness-assessment and connection route.

**Source:** [Singapore Business Federation — Future Ready Business Index launch](https://www.sbf.org.sg/newsroom/media/press-releases/detail/sbf-launches-future-ready-business-index-to-help-businesses-identify-gaps-and-accelerate-transformation?ref=southeastasiaconnect.com).