Emerging technologies hold the answers to fundamental challenges and ambitious objectives. BCG helps clients find the right innovative solutions based on disruptive technology to support every part of their business.
Emerging tech can give companies unprecedented capabilities and competitive advantage. BCG helps clients avoid the hype and choose the ideal solution for their business. Our consultants optimize value from mature resources like AI and evolving tech like advanced robotics, connecting clients with vast ecosystems to unleash these technologies’ full promise.
BCG enables its wide range of clients seize opportunities by using long list of emerging technologies that will transform business in the next five to ten years.
Architected Materials
Architected materials utilize the control of structures across length scales to achieve unprecedented properties and performance. For example, electromagnetic metamaterials can enable new sensing, communications, and medical devices. We help clients use these materials to unlock revolutionary product designs and user experiences.
Photonics and Electronics
Innovations in photonics and electronics occur constantly, bringing new hardware to fields like defense, aerospace, and telecommunications. These emerging concepts show great potential in the development of alternate energy sources and sustainability—an area of specialty for BCG.
Universal Printing
Universal Printing encompasses combinations of new and existing processes to fabricate materials and objects using controlled, patterned, and additive deposition of material. These processes are most powerful when they span multiple length scales and utilize different types of materials.
BCG has strong ties with leading scientists, academics, and innovators working on tomorrow’s breakthrough technologies. We track emerging technologies as they develop, and we understand how they can create a competitive edge for our clients. Our emerging-tech consulting services include:
Shell and BCG Digital Ventures have paired on multiple occasions to incubate and launch new businesses. MachineMax addresses a critical challenge facing the mining and construction industries: how to maximize the productivity of their equipment.
Carbon transformation, or CO2 to X, is rapidly emerging as an economically viable alternative to fossil fuel-based chemicals production. Big companies need to engage.
Early-stage machines could be generating real business value as soon as 2025.
Synthetic biology is a difficult technology to master and especially tough to scale. Chemical and materials startups and their backers need to find the meeting place of technology capability, market need, and cost.
Forward-looking companies may want to experiment with the new technologies at work.
Advanced technologies will bring big changes. Which companies will be ready to capitalize on the opportunities?
Customer engagement in loyalty programs has been stagnant for years. Web3 supports offerings, like nonfungible tokens (NFTs), that get customers more engaged—and companies creating more revenue.
BCG’s emerging-tech consultants are always in step with the latest technologies, leading clients to the most relevant new solutions. Here are some of our experts on the topic:
We have an exclusive strategic partnership with Hello Tomorrow, an international organization that promotes disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological and scientific advances. Through this partnership, BCG and our clients gain early access to emerging technologies and to a network of more than 3,000 deep-tech startups.
