Value Creation

Value Creators in Insurance

BCG’s annual insurance value creators report explores the distinctive drivers of sustained value creation in each sector of the global insurance industry, and the winners who have overcome insurance industry challenges.

BCG Investor Perspectives Series

BCG’s latest research finds investors increasingly bearish on the economy and the stock market—and they want businesses to focus on both liquidity and long-term advantage.

CFO Excellence

A Resilient Balance Sheet Pays Off in Uncertain Times

Companies can gain breathing room to operate under stressful conditions; withstand the scrutiny of shareholders, creditors, and regulators; and pursue market opportunities.

The CFO as the Architect of Zero-Based Transformation

The best approach to zero-based transformation comes from treating all spending as investment and making the CFO a key strategist for generating value.

Finance Functions Need More Women Leaders. Here’s Why.

Companies can use the disruptive power of gender diversity to elevate innovation, resilience, and financial performance to new levels.

How to Make Financial Steering Better, Faster, and More Efficient

Finance functions can use two related capabilities—dynamic planning and advanced business intelligence—to turbocharge their role as forward-looking strategic advisors.

Sustainability as Advantage

Investors Want to Know Your Sustainability Business Case

New BCG research uncovers the seven factors that distinguish sustainability announcements that create value from those that don’t.

Why the New Competitive Advantage Demands Sustainability

Companies can no longer simply focus on maximizing total shareholder returns. To win, they must hone sustainable business models.

Business Strategy

Uniting Strategy and Risk Management to Seize Opportunity in Uncertainty

Companies can gain significant competitive advantage by investing aggressively in sustainability today.

The New Blueprint for Corporate Performance

The rules for boosting performance and competitive advantage are changing. CEOs urgently need a pragmatic playbook for building the capabilities to win in the future.

Digital Strategy and AI

What the Data Tells Us About Digital Transformation, by Industry

How are the companies in your industry doing?

The Five Digital Building Blocks of a Corporate Sustainability Agenda

Achieving ESG goals and building sustainability as a competitive advantage requires integrating technology and data from the beginning.

Executive Perspectives

BCG Executive Perspectives: The CEO’s Dilemma

In this series, we examine the disruptive forces that are bearing down on business leaders today, so that they can understand where opportunities exist amid the uncertainty.

Strategic Planning

Bold Plans Do Not Come from Old Planning Processes

In this pandemic year, leaders who embrace bold vision-setting, backstopped by robust analysis, can create a once-in-a-career opportunity to change the trajectory of their organizations.

Building Your Uncertainty Advantage

For some companies, disruption is a risk to be avoided. For others, it’s an opportunity to be embraced. With better sensing, modeling, and planning capabilities, businesses can use upheaval as a catapult to success.

Family Business

Great Family Businesses Need Good Governance

By anticipating and addressing key issues, family owners can reduce risk, manage conflict, and promote prosperity.

Untangling Conflict: An Introspective Guide for Families in Business

Drawing on decades of lessons learned from the authors’ work supporting families and the businesses they own, this book guides family businesses through an introspective process that helps them determine their own bespoke approaches to preventing and mitigating conflict.

BCG Classics Revisited

BCG Classics Revisited: The Experience Curve

The experience curve theory still holds, particularly in specific industries. But to succeed in today’s environment, many companies need to develop an additional kind of experience.

BCG Classics Revisited: Time-Based Competition

The principles of time-based competition—a classic concept among BCG insights—still hold. But today’s companies must be adaptive, as well as fast, in order to succeed.

BCG Classics Revisited: The Rule of Three and Four

BCG founder Bruce Henderson’s rule, conceived in 1976, still holds valuable lessons for companies in many industries.

BCG Classics Revisited: The Growth Share Matrix

The growth share matrix—put forth by the founder of BCG, Bruce Henderson, in 1970—remains a powerful tool for managing strategic experimentation amid rapid, unpredictable change.