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    The Edge Markets

    Disruption, Not Unrest, Must Be Our Future in Malaysia

    In his guest column for The Edge Markets, BCG’s Vincent Chin describes economic and social opportunities for Malaysia in 2020. He suggests several strategies to help develop equality and prosperity, including supporting small businesses, encouraging lifelong learning, and upskilling and reskilling the current workforce. Chin emphasizes that “this is about the success of the majority, where Malaysians work together equally to achieve the goal of shared economic growth.”

    MIT Sloan Management Review

    Fighting the Gravity of Average Performance

    In their featured article for MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG’s Martin Reeves, Kevin Whitaker, and Tom Deegan discuss strategies that companies can implement to maintain market leadership. Recent research by the BCG Henderson Institute found that as companies struggle to adapt to the new logic of business competition it is far more difficult now than in the past to continuously outperform the sector average. The authors address four key challenges that companies must overcome in order to achieve continuous growth: resetting mental models, adopting new business metrics, embracing a multidimensional approach to strategy, and reinventing organizational capabilities.

    World Economic Forum

    A New Way to Measure Impact, Both Good and Bad

    In his guest column for the World Economic Forum, BCG Digital Ventures’ Stefan Gross-Selbeck encourages business leaders to consider their broader impact beyond financial terms. He discusses BCG Digital Ventures’ inclusion of Total Societal Impact (TSI) in its methodology to measure the wider impact of the ventures it builds. Gross-Selbeck concludes the article by emphasizing that “by holding ourselves to account for more than just the bottom line, we can create lasting value and positive change.”

    The Jakarta Post

    2020 Knocking, but is Indonesia's Workforce Ready to Open the Door?

    In their guest column for The Jakarta Post, BCG’s Sagar Goel and Ching Fong Ong discuss how to build Indonesia’s workforce to seize value through digital transformation. The authors cite a BCG survey which found that half of Indonesian employees believe their jobs will be affected by technological change. They also outline actions that individuals, organizations, and policymakers can implement to compete in a transforming job market. They emphasize that “success in the 2020s will not be about what you know now, but about how you adapt to learn the skills you require tomorrow.”

    Forbes

    Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions by Using Behavioral Economics

    In his guest column for Forbes, BCG’s Grant Freeland offers a new approach to setting and keeping New Year’s resolutions using behavioral economics. Julia Dhar of BeSmart, BCG’s behavioral economics and insights initiative, gives Freeland four tips to incentivize success: write down specific goals, make goals public, introduce a third-party to promote accountability, and create clear consequences for failure.

    Hart Energy

    Three Steps Toward Building a Secure Future for Natural Gas

    In his guest column for Hart Energy, BCG's Alex Dewar explains the importance of stimulating market demand for natural gas to match current supply. He references BCG’s Global Gas Report 2019, which outlines three immediate steps the industry can take to sustain long-term growth. Dewar writes that natural gas could be the “fuel of the future” due to its low-carbon properties and affordability, but only if there is a greater focus on building market demand through increased midstream and downstream investment.

    Utility Dive

    BCG Framework Helps Make the Case for Billion-Dollar Investments in Grid Modernization

    The findings from a recent BCG report, A Simple Plan for Modernizing the Power Grid, are highlighted in an exclusive article with Utility Dive magazine. According to the BCG report, most utility companies want to modernize their systems to combat disruption, but “struggle with the sheer complexity.” The article explains how BCG's "Why-What-How" framework can help guide regulators and secure stakeholder buy-in for major investments in grid modernization.