Vladimir Lukić

Vladimir Lukić is a member of The Boston Consulting Group’s Industrial Goods, Operations, and People & Organization practices. He is focused on actively shaping client's advanced analytics, IoT, and digital agendas.

Since joining BCG in 2006, Vladimir has focused much of his work on strategy, operations, and organization. His case experience spans a wide range of industries, such as industrial goods, transportation and logistics, and technology. He is a coleader of BCG’s digital agenda, and has helped found and grow BCG's advanced analytics and geoanalytics capabilities.

Vladimir’s client engagements have included a number of strategic planning, transformation, and organization change projects—from developing growth strategies for large diversified industrial conglomerates and executing complex postmerger-integration efforts, to running multiyear digital and advanced-analytics transformation efforts for leading companies in many different industries.

He is also a member of BCG's GAMMA team, which creates competitive advantages for organizations by unleashing the power of signals hidden deep within large and complex data sets. BCG's GAMMA team conceptualizes, builds, and deploys advanced analytic solutions that can transform the trajectories of organizations in 12 to 24 months.

Before joining BCG, Vladimir was at Gisdata in Zagreb, Croatia, where he worked on business development across southeastern Europe and on implementation of complex IT solutions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
BS, management information technology, summa cum laude, Canisius College
EU/US scholar, Uppsala University

Publications and Videos

Scaling AI Pays Off, No Matter the Investment

BCG’s latest digital research shows that companies that apply three lessons to scaling AI use cases get a big boost in results from even small investments.

Show Me the Digital Value

When large companies overinvest in digital capabilities, they dramatically widen the value gap with their more cautious peers, generating an average of 30% more EBIT over three years. What are these outperformers doing right?

Strengthening the Steel Industry with AI

Many steel manufacturers haven’t yet embraced AI, but that doesn’t mean they can’t. All that’s required is an openness to experimentation and a willingness to change.

Introducing SNOW (Supply-Chain Network Optimization Workbench)

SNOW is a proprietary BCG tool that simplifies multi-echelon supply chain network design and optimization with a prebuilt Python-based optimization framework. Its simple GUI enables users to generate optimization results and business insights with only a few clicks. It offers unique practical features that enable users to model their supply chain networks in a more realistic way—and it’s customizable to client needs.

Why Parcel Companies Need to Make Every Delivery Special

To stay ahead of e-commerce giants, carriers must win the hearts of online shoppers with more efficient deliveries that are tailored to individual customers.

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Unleashing the Power of Data with IoT and Augmented Reality

The value of IoT data is hidden in plain sight. Using AR realizes its potential, as our app demonstrates. It’s critical that companies develop a joint IoT-AR strategy.

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Creating Value in Private Equity with Advanced Data and Analytics

Whether they generate it themselves or acquire it from external sources, the amount of data available to companies today is increasing exponentially. And companies that choose not to use that data to create value risk hastening their own obsolescence or, at the very least, losing competitive advantage.