Bringing Managers Back to Work
Companies are revolutionizing how people work. Now they need to transform how managers manage.
Organizations working toward digital transformation must also rethink their ways of working, company culture, talent management, and reskilling strategies. Explore BCG’s latest thinking on people and organization to learn what this means for your business.
Companies are revolutionizing how people work. Now they need to transform how managers manage.
An aerospace company reduced the development time for an aircraft door from four years to just 18 months. Serge Bérenger explains the approach it took.
Agile boosts companies’ flexibility, adaptability, and ability to deal with change—all qualities they need in a downturn.
Getting optimal results from agile requires a commitment to strategic clarity that is critical yet uncommon.
Making Agile Work
Too often, agile remains confined to software development.
Governments and public agencies must make leader development a key pillar of their strategies for the future. Here’s how.
Transformation in the digital era is always-on—and never easy. This holistic and human-centric approach enables organizations to succeed today and thrive tomorrow.
For most CEOs, real success remains elusive. But by deftly exploiting a five-part algorithm, they can boost their chances of a truly successful tenure.
Changing how people work can be the biggest challenge.
As technological advances make flex-work arrangements more common, companies must set the tone in crafting a model that benefits everyone.
Don't expect the management career ladder to totally disappear. Do expect it to morph into something significantly different.
To win in the 21st century, companies must be less rigid and more improvisational than they've ever been before.
Companies shouldn’t just try to make it through the next recession, they should find ways to grow and come out healthier and wealthier than before.
Companies must master and control emerging technologies to take charge of their next customized digital initiative.
Millions of today’s jobs—thanks to AI and other technologies—won’t exist in the future or won't exist as we know them today. How do we prepare the workforce for the jobs of tomorrow?
Leaders should focus on collaboration, cooperation, and teamwork—as opposed to the performance of any single employee.
As change accelerates, most companies are not keeping up. Leaders need to understand the key drivers of change and redesign their organizations with a focus on six core attributes.
When technology is changing every facet of your business, it's time to move on. Platforms offer a path forward.
Upending the traditional biopharmaceutical approach, Allergan’s digital transformation addressed health and beauty consumers directly.
Amid rising discontent, Purpose 2.0 can help tech companies rediscover their footing, regain public confidence, and reinvigorate their performance.
A wave of change is coming that will make the way we work almost unrecognizable to today’s business leaders. To succeed, they will need to discover new ways of organizing, performing, and leading, along with new approaches to recruiting, developing, and engaging employees.
Many workers are drawn to public service, but to attract, develop, and retain top talent for the digital age, governments need a major HR overhaul.
The rapidly changing workplace presents an imperative—and an opportunity—for employees to reenergize their learning and capabilities.
The cognitive scientist believes that in the digital age, company-supported lifelong learning is critical for companies, executives, and workers alike.
The rise of digital labor-sharing platforms may seem like a threat to workers' rights, but new research suggests otherwise. Freelancers—and the companies that hire them—have much to gain in the expanding gig economy.
Emerging trends in the world of work include the UK's decline as a destination and increased expectations everywhere for a better work-life balance.
The Future of Work
BCG partners with the World Economic Forum to develop a blueprint that helps companies manage changes and challenges in the future of work.
Investments in new technology yield results only for companies that reassess, rethink, and restructure the way they work.
Adopting a best-of-breed approach improves flexibility in critical processes while unleashing more agile ways of working.
With digital technologies and BCG’s three-point approach, professional services firms can realize cost savings of 30% to 40%—and rev their commercial engines.
Companies that adopt agile ways of working are five times more likely to experience faster growth and higher profits than those that don’t. Several other elements of good organization design can also help.
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