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    Forbes

    People, Performance & Purpose at PepsiCo and Beyond

    In his guest column for Forbes, BCG’s Grant Freeland talks to former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo and BCG alumna, Indra Nooyi, about her passions and career highlights. Freeland analyzes PepsiCo’s strategy during the Great Recession, as well as Nooyi’s other accomplishments at the company. He remembers another interview he did with her ten years ago and admires how she was an innovator in topics that are just now becoming relevant in business. Nooyi tells him “the trick is not doing what everyone else is doing, but doing it before it becomes fashionable.”

    Economic Times

    How 5G Technology Is Critical to India's Digital Dream

    In their guest column for the Economic Times, BCG’s Sanjay Kapoor and Ayon Banerjee explain how launching 5G in India could end the country’s late adoption of new technologies. They outline four foundational blocks that India needs to make 5G a reality: spectrum availability, technology, economics, and policy. The authors emphasize that skipping the “transformation shift” to 5G is “not a choice India can afford.”

    Financial Times

    ‘Net Zero Company’ Emissions Plans Must Appeal to Shareholders

    In their guest column for the Financial Times, BCG’s Alan Thomson and Rebecca Fitz outline the implications of oil and gas companies looking to achieve net zero emissions. They discuss what these plans may mean for shareholders and how such plans could lead to exceeding critical carbon emissions, instead of limiting them. They urge oil and gas companies to break the cycle that the “investor confidence deficit” has created and instead shift their dollars towards “long-term, paradigm-changing investments.”

    The Edge Markets

    Can Malaysia Navigate the River of Digital Change This Decade?

    In his guest column for The Edge Markets, BCG’s Sagar Goel discusses digital disruption and transformation in the 2020s. He references a BCG survey and report to describe the relationship between the changing market and the need to build new skills to ensure a competitive advantage for Malaysian society and business. Goel emphasizes that “whether organizations are ready or not, the time of digital transformation is now.”

    The Edge Malaysia

    Can Malaysia navigate the river of digital change this decade?

    Digital transformation should ultimately offer new ways of working and unlock fresh opportunities for businesses. But the process of transformation itself is tripping up many companies. BCG analysis shows that 70% of publicly announced digital transformations failed to achieve a company’s stated ambitions, timelines, or both. In his guest column for The Edge Malaysia, BCG’s Sagar Goel cautions that businesses need to embrace fundamental organizational change—central to which is building a lifelong learning mindset and supporting the workforce to be skills-ready and skills-relevant.

    The Business Times

    The kindest cut?: How to better manage a retrenchment exercise

    BCG’s Kong Ming Teck weighed in on the topic by sharing what we do as a consulting firm, when it comes to helping businesses, which have to undertake this difficult task. “(We) help the company design the process leading up to the notification,” he said. Noting that not everyone involved in this complex operation might know how to best handle the situation, he added that “we have to make sure they (referring to the managers) are skilled enough to have difficult conversations in an appropriate way and to be ready for what to expect”.

    Financial Express

    How Indian IT can Win 2020s: Bring Problem-Solving to the Fore and Create Heterogeneous Talent

    In their guest column for Financial Express, BCG’s Vikash Jain and Aditya Shangloo discuss the expected growth of the IT-BPO industry in India. The authors emphasize that “all businesses will become technology businesses” and address the implications of this shift. They conclude the article by outlining five key themes on how the Indian IT industry can win in the 2020s.

    Knowledge@Wharton

    Mindfulness Can Help Unlock Your Company’s Collective Intelligence

    In their featured article for Knowledge@Wharton, BCG’s Christian Greiser and Jan-Philipp Martini explain how individual employees can practice mindfulness to grow collective intelligence. They discuss a BCG and Awaris study that found 31 teams that participated in a 10-week mindfulness program displayed an average increase of 13% in collective intelligence. The findings of the study are further highlighted in a separate article authored by Greiser for Gulf News. Both articles provide three steps companies can take to foster collective intelligence: provide mindfulness training, anchor mindfulness in teams, and establish metrics and track behavior changes.

    The Jakarta Post

    Building Skills for the Future in Indonesia's Workforce

    In his guest column for The Jakarta Post, BCG’s Davids Tjhin discusses how to unleash the potential of Indonesia’s workforce through upskilling and reskilling. He cites a BCG survey that shows workers globally are increasingly aware of the importance of refining their skills to adapt to megatrends that will impact their work life. Tjhin encourages all workers to plan for the future because “with the backdrop of digital transformation and sweeping global change, the workforce skills required for the future will inevitably evolve.”

    Forbes

    What Millennials Can Learn from Their Bosses

    In his guest column for Forbes, BCG’s Grant Freeland offers advice for millennials on what they can learn from their bosses. He suggests that millennials moving into management positions should adopt three lessons from their senior colleagues: understand what is best for the organization, business is business, and the generational divide is a benefit. Freeland argues that these lessons when combined with millennial values of considering broader societal impact, can promote greater business success.