Michael Leyh

Michael Leyh is Team Manager for Digital and IT Transformation in Banking at The Boston Consulting Group. He leads the Digital Acceleration Index and the European IT Benchmarking in Banking study. Michael joined the firm in 2012.

Michael is an expert in large-scale IT transformations in banking, and digital transformations across several industries. While at BCG, he has led agile teams on projects that included app development, marketing, and content development.

Before joining BCG, Michael held positions at Deutsche Post/DHL, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

MS, Information Systems, WWU, Münster
BS, Information Systems, WWU, Münster

Publications and Videos

Winning Financial Institutions Build on Digital Strategy

Financial institutions that implement digital initiatives without a strategy often have lower performance than those that aren’t pursuing digital or are just beginning their efforts.

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?

Digital Value Creation: Bionic Path for the Middle East

Digital value creation continues to gain momentum as a strategic imperative for companies around the globe. Read on to learn what BCG's DAI study has uncovered here.

The Leaders’ Path to Digital Value

Bionic companies use four accelerators to translate strategy into superior outcomes—and market dominance.

The Leaders’ Path to Digital Value: The Infographic

The world’s most digitally mature companies use four digital accelerators to drive gains in areas such as operational efficiency, enterprise value, and top-line growth.

The Moment of Truth in Every Digital Journey

Digital journeys often stall before generating significant value. But leading companies use five bionic boosters to maintain their transformation’s momentum.

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How Digital Divides Health Care Providers

Champions that want to keep their advantage—and laggards that want to make up some ground—can take three no-regret moves to create value for patients, shareholders, and society as a whole.

How Bionic Companies Translate Digital Maturity into Performance

Scaling digital investments more effectively results in organization-wide improvements, which can be measured in earnings, enterprise value, and customer satisfaction.

The AI Advantage of Bionic Companies

Bionic companies—those that combine human and technology capabilities—generate about double the earnings and enterprise value of other companies.

How Digital Champions Invest

Digital champions are expanding their lead with investments to enhance technology and IT, build their talent base, and push digital projects—including in AI—to scale.

Digital Maturity Is Paying Off

Although the performance gap is widening between digital champions and laggards, companies can take steps to mature.

Beyond the Hype

Digitization is creating a divide in the corporate landscape worldwide. Digital laggards face a profound threat unless they close the gap with digital champions.

Tiefgreifende Expertise, umfassende Erfahrung