Global Challenger-to-Leader Program (C2L)

C2L is set up as an integrated three-step program to guide and propel your company's ascent to global leadership.

Step 1:  Determine your C2L ambitions

• What are your company's global achievements to date?

• What are the "right" global growth ambitions for your company?

Step 2: Assess your C2L readiness

• What are the most critical enablers to achieve your global ambitions?

• How ready are you for global growth?

• What are your top five development needs (gaps)?

Step 3:  Draft your C2L roadmap

• What are the key action steps to making it happen?

• What is the optimal approach to roll out the C2L actions?

Our three-step approach ensures a disciplined process that will engage the right parts of your organization. This approach also provides access to the best BCG experts across our functional and industry practices worldwide, and result in a comprehensive strategy and actionable roadmap for your corporate center and the respective business lines. 

In order to achieve sustainable global success at large-scale, you have to cultivate the key enablers. Our program will give you the comprehensive and highly practical C2L Diagnostic Tool, which will help determine your globalization readiness across 20 critical dimensions and 74 sub-dimensions.

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The C2L Diagnostic Tool will identify the specific gaps between your readiness and your future requirements, and it will help set clear development priorities. The tool incorporates 50 years of BCG experience from hundreds of globalization projects across all industries and functions.

We have designed C2L to have flexible implementation—ranging from a self-administered diagnostic exercise to a BCG-supported set of workshops and surveys. We are committed to structuring C2L to meet the specific needs of your business situation. 

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The C2L pilot will provide your senior management with a highly structured, systematic, and actionable agenda. It will show you how to think about international growth in a new light (ambitions and strategy) and the right priorities to pursue to ensure successful implementation (enablers and roadmap).

• You will receive a practical and comprehensive framework how to prioritize your globalization objectives and actions.  More than just a to-do list, BCG's C2L planning exercise identifies the core gaps that must be closed for your organization to succeed globally. 

• You will gain access to leading-edge BCG expertise in areas such as people and organization, operations, sales and marketing, and corporate development—along with our benchmarks, best practices,  and proprietary tools.

• C2L will create a common platform in your management team to effectively divide and conquer the diverse tasks at hand.

C2L has been developed by a team of 18 of BCG's most senior global business experts. C2L incorporates BCG's experience from hundred of projects supporting emerging-market companies in their globalization, as well as detailed, practical learnings from case studies of successful (and unsuccessful) emerging market companies and how they are expanding internationally.

Our global C2L team is ready to work with you.

Thomas Bradtke

Thomas is the leader of BCG's C2L initiative and a partner in the Dubai office. He is leading BCG’s Global Advantage, Industrial Goods, and Operations practice areas in the Middle East.

Thomas has worked with a broad range of private-sector companies, as well as governments and public organizations around the world. His work has focused on developing and implementing growth and transformation strategies in more than 20 countries throughout the Middle East, Southeast Asia, India, China, Latin America, and Russia. He is a regular speaker at major events and has authored several BCG publications on strategies for rapidly developing economies.

Thomas joined BCG in 1993 after several international assignments with a European industrial and consumer products conglomerate. He has worked out of the Middle East since 2005. He previously worked in BCG's Boston, Bangkok, and Munich offices.

David Michael

David is a senior partner based in the San Francisco office, and he is the global leader of BCG’s Global Advantage practice area. In this capacity, he has global responsibility for BCG's client solutions related to the world's rapidly developing economies.

David has advised a wide range of global clients on strategic and organizational issues related to winning in emerging markets. He has also advised Chinese companies on their global expansion programs. Additionally, David is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals, which includes CEOs from emerging markets companies.

He is a coauthor of our groundbreaking Global Challengers report series and also a coauthor of the BCG book The $10 Trillion Prize, which details how companies can win over new consumers in the burgeoning consumer markets of China and India. David joined BCG's Shanghai office in 1992 and was previously the managing director of the firm's Greater China practice.