Emerging Business Technologies Consulting

Digital, Technology, and Data

Emerging technologies hold the answers to fundamental challenges and ambitious objectives. BCG helps clients find the right innovative solutions based on disruptive technology to support every part of their business.

Emerging tech can give companies unprecedented capabilities and competitive advantage. BCG helps clients avoid the hype and choose the ideal solution for their business. Our consultants optimize value from mature resources like AI and evolving tech like advanced robotics, connecting clients with vast ecosystems to unleash these technologies’ full promise.

Our Approach to Emerging Tech

BCG enables its wide range of clients seize opportunities by using long list of emerging technologies that will transform business in the next five to ten years.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

AR and VR technology transforms how businesses visualize and use data—perfect for creating value in health care, manufacturing, retail, and other industries. BCG experts work to integrate the right strategy with the right AR/VR technology for a company’s mission.

Metaverse

The metaverse is coming. Forward-looking companies are zeroing in on how to use its available components to transform their business right now. They're making smart investments and seeing them pay off.

Artificial Intelligence

Only 10% of companies report significant benefits from their AI deployments. BCG guides clients to execute better decision making, extract value from algorithms and ML, and invest in human capabilities to make the technologies perform to their fullest.

Quantum Computing

In the coming decades, quantum computing promises to create more than $450 billion of value annually. Leaders should consider where and how quantum computing will create business value and what changes are looming.

Blockchain

Blockchain is only starting to live up to its billing, with applications ranging from supply chains to inventory management. Our approach can help companies deploy blockchain independently or in concert with experienced providers.

The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is unlocking previously inaccessible sources of value for enterprises in areas such as new revenue streams, safety, and improved customer experience.

Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology represents a step change in biopharma. Applications of the technology are also driving change in fields such as agriculture, where it could help ensure a reliable food supply to the world’s growing population.

Cloud Computing

Increasingly common in industries globally, cloud computing continues to deliver lower costs and high-performance technology engagement through on-demand software and technology solutions. BCG finds the best model for your business—affordable, scalable, and secure.

Architected Materials

Architected materials utilize the control of structures across length scales to achieve unprecedented properties and performance. For example, electromagnetic metamaterials can enable new sensing, communications, and medical devices. We help clients use these materials to unlock revolutionary product designs and user experiences.

Photonics and Electronics

Innovations in photonics and electronics occur constantly, bringing new hardware to fields like defense, aerospace, and telecommunications. These emerging concepts show great potential in the development of alternate energy sources and sustainability—an area of specialty for BCG.

Universal Printing

Universal Printing encompasses combinations of new and existing processes to fabricate materials and objects using controlled, patterned, and additive deposition of material. These processes are most powerful when they span multiple length scales and utilize different types of materials.

Our Early Access to Emerging Tech

BCG has strong ties with leading scientists, academics, and innovators working on tomorrow’s breakthrough technologies. We track emerging technologies as they develop, and we understand how they can create a competitive edge for our clients. Our emerging-tech consulting services include:

Scouting Ecosystems

Combining Emerging Technologies

Focusing on Ideation

Our Client Work in Emerging Technologies

Shell's MachineMax Revolutionizes Equipment Management with Telematics

Shell and BCG Digital Ventures have paired on multiple occasions to incubate and launch new businesses. MachineMax addresses a critical challenge facing the mining and construction industries: how to maximize the productivity of their equipment.

BCG’s emerging-tech consultants are always in step with the latest technologies, leading clients to the most relevant new solutions. Here are some of our experts on the topic:

Hello Tomorrow

We have an exclusive strategic partnership with Hello Tomorrow, an international nonprofit that promotes disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological and scientific advances. Through this partnership, BCG and our clients gain early access to emerging technologies and to a network of more than 3,000 deep-tech startups.

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