Determining the right business strategy is anything but straightforward and the approach should be constantly refreshed. BCG helps clients define a path to win in today’s game—and tomorrow’s.
If corporate strategy is about determining the optimal allocation of capital across a portfolio of strategic business units, the role of business strategy is to deploy that capital to drive growth, generate value, and create sustainable competitive advantage—in other words, to put it to work in the most effective way possible.
A business only prospers if it can satisfy the changing needs of its customers both more fully and more profitably than its competitors. Today, with digital disruption blurring industry boundaries and geopolitics challenging long-held assumptions, those needs are changing faster than ever. Adding to the complexity is the fact that different strategic environments call for different types of business strategies.
A storied quick-serve restaurant chain achieve 18 successive quarters of peer-beating, same-store growth by rethinking its business unit strategy to focus on two critical demand spaces where the company had a clear right to win.
A semiconductor equipment company took an unexpected opportunity to enter an adjacent health care space; the move generated a third of the company’s revenue in the first five years and quadrupled its valuation.
Our business strategy consultants use a variety of solutions and tools to help clients define, execute and accelerate their business strategy.
In digital transformation, the critical question is, which strategic bets should we make and in what order?
The center helps clients find tomorrow’s best opportunities by mining vast, unstructured data sets for insight.
Strategic environments are increasingly diverse. And different environments call for different styles of business strategy.
The center tracks more than 90 known and emerging megatrends that can provide critical tailwinds to accelerate strategic moves.
Companies can no longer simply focus on maximizing total shareholder returns. To win, they must hone sustainable business models.
Companies can gain an edge by matching their strategic style to the conditions of their industry, business function, or geographic market, according to research featured in Harvard Business Review.
For some companies, disruption is a risk to be avoided. For others, it’s an opportunity to be embraced. With better sensing, modeling, and planning capabilities, businesses can use upheaval as a catapult to success.
This edition of BCG Executive Perspectives, based on a survey of C-suite leaders, reveals what executives are prioritizing and the actions they are taking amid current global uncertainties.
