How to Protect the Planet
Environmental degradation is everyone’s problem. Businesses have a responsibility to take action—and will benefit from doing so.
The world has changed forever. Competitive advantage awaits business leaders who act quickly in this new reality. Are you ready for the challenge?
By focusing on three critical areas—climate and sustainability, digital transformation, and resilience—companies can thrive today and in the future. Here’s how.
Even once the pandemic is behind us, businesses won’t be able to return to business as usual. The rapid acceleration of new ways of working and technology is widening the gap between winning and losing organizations; those unable to adapt to the new reality will be left behind. The task for leaders is to navigate the complexities of this current environment while preparing for the future. They’ll have to pivot quickly and refocus their attention to solve critical challenges in the years ahead, taking bold action to build organizations that are able to withstand the tests of time. BCG has the experience and insights to help.
Businesses are at a defining moment to act on sustainability. Those that act decisively have the opportunity to create sustainable competitive advantage for the long term. Thanks to the scale and speed at which they operate, businesses are also uniquely positioned to address climate change and many of the other serious challenges facing our world. We have the expertise to help companies step up their commitments, reduce their emissions, and partner across the public, private, and social sectors to generate sustainable impact.
Environmental degradation is everyone’s problem. Businesses have a responsibility to take action—and will benefit from doing so.
Use a nine-point robustness and resilience framework to determine if your business model can provide ongoing competitive advantage.
We propose an iterative cycle of activity that helps companies optimize for both business value and social value in a single business model.
Sustainable companies need sustainability strategies. The front-runners are fundamentally reimagining their businesses to turn sustainability into a core business advantage.
BCG research suggests that the gap between winners and losers increases during a crisis—and that performance in times of turmoil has far-reaching consequences. But resilience isn’t just about weathering the storm. It’s about being ready for whatever comes next, finding ways to minimize disruption and adapt quickly to change. To win in the new reality, businesses will have to reflect on what they learned during the pandemic and integrate those lessons into their operating models and ways of working.
Keep resilience on the transformation agenda. Change programs that prioritize growth, debt reduction, and operational flexibility realize the full value of resilience and build advantage for the next crisis.
Female leaders in technology reveal what companies—and women themselves—can do to expand gender diversity in tech leadership.
To take DEI to the next level, look beyond broad categories of race, gender, and sexual orientation to discover what truly shapes employees’ experiences at work.
After the COVID-19 crisis forced leaders to shift their attention to navigating critical short-term issues, many are now refocusing on the longer-term agenda for their businesses. Here are five key imperatives for succeeding in the remainder of this decade.
In this video series, BCG experts explain how successful organizations build resilience in order to rebound from adversity, respond to change, and reimagine businesses that will flourish in new circumstances.
The pandemic has put the power of digital on full display, catapulting the world of work five to ten years into the future. Even as employees start to return to their offices, it’s clear that workplaces won’t ever return to normal. Leading in the new reality requires robust digital capabilities and—in many cases—a comprehensive transformation that can support these new ways of working.
In this series—which began with the original 2014 Decoding report—BCG and The Network document the ongoing evolution of work and highlight how workplaces will have to change in the future.
Realizing the digital promise and gaining a sustainable advantage take much more than investments in technology. Companies need to expand their perception to discover hidden relationships.
Bionic companies use four accelerators to translate strategy into superior outcomes—and market dominance.
By investing in the cloud, data, and analytics, institutions can improve student success, operational efficiency, and innovation in research and learning.
