Michael Grebe

Michael Grebe is a member of the Technology Advantage practice and the Technology Advantage Operating Committee at Boston Consulting Group. He has deep experience in IT and digital across industries including transforming IT functions into World Class Technology Functions and in assessing the digital maturity of companies using BCG‘s Digital Acceleration Index.

Before joining the firm, Michael trained as a banker, worked as a software developer with an engineering company, completed internships with DG Bank, Frankfurt and Deutsche Bank, London, and conducted several benchmark projects with IBM, Mainz.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

PhD, information technology and statistics, University of Regensburg
Master’s degree, information technology, University of Mannheim

Publications and Videos

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.

Systems Thinking Powers Bionic Success

Why do digital natives grow into the world’s most valuable companies seemingly overnight while the world’s largest legacy companies achieve only incremental digital progress?

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.

Bionic Champions In the Middle East

As part of a recent global digital maturity study, centered around our proprietary Digital Acceleration Index (DAI) framework, BCG surveyed ~150 companies in the Middle East, focusing on the largest companies in the GCC. Survey responses were used to identify Bionic Champions – those most digitally mature and contrast them with Laggards. This article shares key findings on how these Bionic Champions outperform by leveraging digital boosters to drive performance and resilience.