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The latest insights, ideas, and perspectives from BCG. Explore a cross-section of up-to-date content on the trends shaping the future of business and society. A complete collection of our latest thinking across industries and capabilities can be found at the bottom of the page.

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FUTURE OF WORK

What Job Seekers Wish Employers Knew
What Job Seekers Wish Employers Knew

A survey of 90,500 people shows how companies can successfully attract and hire the talent they need.
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TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Your Strategy Is Only as Good as Your Skills
Your Strategy Is Only as Good as Your Skills

The successful companies of the future will not only invest in human capital but also track and report progress with the same attention they devote to other assets.
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METAVERSE SERVICES

Rethinking E-Commerce for the Era of the Metaverse
Rethinking E-Commerce for the Era of the Metaverse

The evolution of the metaverse could be a disruptive event requiring dramatic changes to the way you do business. Is your company ready?
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Crafting a Value Proposition for National Growth
Crafting a Value Proposition for National Growth

An economic value proposition can help governments attract talent and investment. To get started, focus on a few critical priorities—and build on your strengths.
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CMO AGENDA

Don’t Cut Your Brand-Marketing Budget. Rethink It.
Don’t Cut Your Brand-Marketing Budget. Rethink It.

Reframing brand spending as a vital long-term investment helps companies build the resilience they will need when a downturn hits.
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Business Resilience

Leaders face an uncertain landscape, and have a powerful opportunity to build competitive advantage while navigating a range of complicated global headwinds. The impact of each decision feels impossible to predict, which is why they need a resilience strategy that is proactive and resilient.

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Why Your Zero-Based Transformation Should Start Now

ZBT can do much more than inject cost discipline—it can help companies maintain their strategic momentum even amid difficult economic conditions.

Why Leaders Can’t Let Up in Transformations

The business environment just keeps getting tougher, but transformation is still an imperative. A new survey confirms that five measures can make a big difference in results.

New Abundance: Resource Constraints as Strategic Opportunities

Ultimately, it will be the companies that use new constraints to their advantage that will succeed by creating new abundance.

Ten Reasons for Optimism in 2023

After a year of seemingly unending crisis, 2023 could be a year of solutions. Here are the innovations, technological advances, trends, and policy developments that BCG experts are excited about in the year ahead.

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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation

It has never been clearer that companies need to be able to learn quickly and adapt in the face of adversity. There is an accelerated need for companies to become bionic—not simply to make standalone digital improvements, but to intentionally combine human and technological capabilities.

AI Is Revolutionizing How Companies Manage Transformations

Analyzing massive data sets in real time, generating unbiased insights, enabling prompt course correction: an AI-based approach is powering up—and radically transforming—initiative management.

The Dawn of a New Era for the Tech Function

The tech team can emerge from the shadows and become an engine of value creation rather than a cost center.

Web3 Opens New Paths to Customer Loyalty

Customer engagement in loyalty programs has been stagnant for years. Web3 supports offerings, like nonfungible tokens (NFTs), that get customers more engaged—and companies creating more revenue.

Scaling AI Pays Off, No Matter the Investment

BCG’s latest digital research shows that companies that apply three lessons to scaling AI use cases get a big boost in results from even small investments.

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Featured Collections

We’re Building Tomorrow

BCG X disrupts the present and creates the future by building new products, services, and businesses in partnership with the world’s largest organizations.

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BCG Executive Perspectives

BCG Executive Perspectives offer insights on global topics that matter most to leaders in the public and private sectors. Explore these topics and read the latest thinking from BCG's experts.

Podcasts by BCG

Explore BCG’s podcast library where we share conversations and discussions with experts and global leaders from different industries and capabilities.

Climate Vision 2050

The Climate Vision 2050 podcast takes users through an immersive audio experience journey of a world that has radically overcome climate catastrophe.

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Industries Capabilities

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A New Architecture to Manage Data Costs and Complexity

A more federated and distributed architectural paradigm will help companies address the challenges and costs of data access and integration while accelerating innovation.

Interview

For US Hospitals, Resilience Requires Tough Choices

A chat with Sanjay Saxena, global leader of BCG’s health care payers, providers, systems, and services business, on the challenges facing US hospitals and health care systems.

Topics: Business Resilience

Article

Digitization Pays Dividends for Industrial Machinery

The industrial machinery industry is behind the curve in going digital. But companies in the vanguard are proving better at innovation and achieving their strategic goals.