The How-To Guide to Digital Operations
Digitizing manufacturing operations is imperative—yet immensely difficult. Companies that have tried have seen mixed results. We’ve identified factors that separate leaders from laggards.
Improving operations has never been easy, and the rise of digital has ushered in new challenges and opportunities. Capitalizing on big data, machine learning, and AI to boost efficiency is essential, but it requires new skill sets and a cultural overhaul. Explore BCG’s latest thought leadership on digital operations and more.
Digitizing manufacturing operations is imperative—yet immensely difficult. Companies that have tried have seen mixed results. We’ve identified factors that separate leaders from laggards.
Tune out the tech sales pitches. Focus instead on what you seek to achieve from a digital transformation.
It’s not enough to establish the right organizational structure. Companies must also attract and retain digital talent and overcome the limitations of legacy IT systems.
Stakeholders must work together to achieve the technology refinements and workforce reboot that will reinvigorate the industry.
Mastering the interplay between materials and printing technologies will be critical to success in the industry’s increasingly competitive ecosystem.
Digitization—when done right and at scale—yields impressive results. Discover how manufacturing companies can learn from Ford’s success as Mike Mikula, Ford’s global chief engineer, shares insights with BCG’s Jonathan Van Wyck.
Digital technology allows for an unprecedented level of customization. Here’s how companies can unlock the potential value.
Uberization is about to transform supply chains everywhere, as companies increasingly rely on the supply chain capabilities of external, platform-based ecosystems instead of building their own.
Tariff wars may dominate the news, but changing cost structures will have a longer-term impact on where the world’s goods are made.
Incremental reductions won’t cut it in today’s business environment. CPG companies must fundamentally change the way they manage their supply chain costs.
To optimize their cost-cutting efforts, smart companies are turning to their suppliers.
At BCG's 13th annual European procurement roundtable, in Munich, more than 80 CPOs and procurement executives discussed what it will take to win in the next decade.
Investors increasingly want more than low-single-digit savings from acquisitions. Procurement is in a position to deliver.
Digital can help procurement teams gain a much deeper understanding of their purchases—and cut costs significantly.
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During price upturns, companies often indulge in bad behavior, such as “window dressing” capital projects with overly optimistic cost and completion assumptions—jeopardizing project performance.
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Innovators are doubling down on digital—and embracing AI, platforms, and ecosystems for advantage.
Leading companies are already sprinting toward a digital and data-driven future.
BCG’s fifth annual operational-excellence benchmarking survey, involving 15 of the world's 35 top retail banks, explores four trending practices of leading institutions.
Adopting a best-of-breed approach improves flexibility in critical processes while unleashing more agile ways of working.
Customers today have high expectations, but traditional service providers often fail to meet those demands. Service 4.0 represents a fundamental transformation that can help companies meet consumers' needs.
To keep pace with evolving customer expectations and achieve greater efficiency, banks must implement a set of operational improvements interactively and in harmony.
New technologies are changing how support functions work—and rendering some of them entirely obsolete. To capitalize, companies need to reorganize those functions from the ground up.
A practical approach to cost cutting can yield savings of up to 80%.
To prime your white-collar processes for digital (or any) transformation, drill down to the process essentials.
The growth of automation, digitalization, and virtual collaboration is putting pressure on companies to reimagine the way their corporate centers operate.
CFOs can maintain a relentless focus on value creation by serving as strategic advisors to business leaders, overseeing performance, and communicating a persuasive equity story to investors.
The odds are stacked against leaders who manage major organizational changes. But those who model the behaviors they seek and are persistent, hypervigilant, and flexible can improve their chances of success.
It’s essential to focus on culture as the context for quality, rather than just promulgating standards that provide the content of quality.
Companies that apply this centuries-old solution to digital-age challenges can unlock the full potential of agility.
Companies that successfully root out complicatedness will increase their productivity and gain a competitive advantage.
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