
The Importance of Diverse Boards
Ulrike Schwarz-Runer, a managing director and senior partner and BCG's general counsel, shares three key reasons why diversity in the boardroom is so important.
Most leaders recognize how critical a high-performance business culture is to their organization’s success. Most also struggle to achieve it. BCG helps clients articulate what their organizational culture should be.
Developing the right business culture is essential to achieving sustainable competitive advantage: Companies with a purpose-driven organizational culture outperform their peers.They attract and retain a diverse workforce with the highest-caliber skills. They empower employees to collaborate and innovate in agile ways—and inspire them to go the extra mile. They align workers and resources to advance strategic goals.
Our approach, based on cutting-edge behavioral science, helps leaders understand how they can personally activate a new organizational culture—and permanently embed it within the organization using our proven change management strategies and tools.
To achieve a high-performance business culture, BCG’s organizational culture consulting experts ensure that a company’s purpose, strategy, and culture are closely interconnected.
With these forces aligned, a company gains the vision it needs to remake itself through cultural change. Driving diversity and inclusion is a critical component of this journey to organizational culture change.
BCG helped a global insurance company design a new functional operating model and identify a portfolio of initiatives. By embracing change management principles and focusing on organizational culture, the company lowered management costs by 20% and reduced overall costs by approximately $500 million.
BrightHouse is a BCG company and a global creative consultancy. We help organizations uncover their timeless business purpose—the reason they exist—so they can grow their people, profits, and social impact.
Building Diverse and Inclusive Cultures is a key component of our organizational culture offerings. Companies can’t capture the real value of a diverse workforce until they create an organizational culture that welcomes everyone—truly everyone—to participate.
BCG’s Organization Design Enablement Center ensures that large-scale reorganizations lead to higher-performing organizations.
Amethyst, BCG’s learning and behavior change app, supports training and coaching for leaders and managers through digital nudges, text messages, emails, apps, and gamification.
Our Articulate, Activate, Embed framework allows clients to articulate what a leading organizational culture looks like, activate new behaviors to make it a reality, and embed and reinforce target behaviors to make sure it sticks.
Ulrike Schwarz-Runer, a managing director and senior partner and BCG's general counsel, shares three key reasons why diversity in the boardroom is so important.
Unmet emotional needs top other reasons why people in location-dependent jobs would leave—needs that employers must address if they are to retain top talent.
Our organizational culture consulting team helps clients align their purpose, strategy, and culture to improve business performance. Here are some of our experts on the topic.