Challenges
Despite global economic trends, organizations face an extremely diverse set of people-related challenges that vary with the market environments in which they operate. Nonetheless, many companies now confront a common set of questions:
How do we build sustainable, competitive people advantage in different global environments?
How do we effectively link business and personnel strategy?
How can we attract and develop the best talent and leaders around the world?
What levers do we need to apply to enable high performance and promote affiliation with the company?
How can we develop work force flexibility and agility?
How can our human resources (HR) function accelerate economic value creation?
BCG Competencies
BCG works with clients to build a competitive, measurable, and sustainable staffing advantage through strategic focus, business connection, and excellence in execution.
Business strategy drives work force needs. At the same time, work force imperatives condition business strategy success. We work with clients along six key dimensions to create advantage:
Aligning—Linking business and people strategy to build competitive advantage
Sourcing—Strategic work force planning, global attraction and recruiting, and work force flexibility
Performing—Enabling and promoting high performance
Developing—Effectively and efficiently developing people and capabilities
Affiliating—Creating an engaging, rewarding, and meaningful workplace
Building HR excellence—Creating a lean and effective global HR function that can execute an optimal staffing strategy
BCG is uniquely positioned to understand and help address the personnel issues of clients. Our global studies in people advantage are among the most comprehensive and renowned fact-based studies of the topic worldwide.
The combination of our business and work force expertise makes us a preferred partner, and we have a proven track record of linking people with businesses while applying the right analyses and instruments to help them not only make informed staff decisions but fully implement them.