Industrial Goods Consulting and Strategy

Companies throughout the industrial goods sector are confronting the need for change by redefining themselves, their offerings, and the way they do business. BCG’s industrial goods consulting teams have proven expertise in helping clients adapt, compete, and win.

For industrial goods companies, business as usual isn’t an option. Regardless of their specific industrial sector—chemicals, construction, machinery, and the like—these companies must think beyond their traditional business and operating models to choose where and how to create value in the future.

In a period of immense change and uncertainty, BCG helps industrial goods sector clients prepare for the future.

Our Industrial Goods Sector Services

Agribusiness Industry

Building Materials

Chemicals

Forest Products, Paper, and Packaging

Machinery and Industrial Automation

Metals and Mining Industry

Real Estate

How BCG Helps Industrial Goods Companies

We help clients:

Become more resilient. To thrive in uncertain times, companies must mitigate future shocks to their revenue and supply chain to maintain operations and respond to shifts in demand.

Support digital transformation. When companies undertake a digital transformation, they’re well on their way to building for the future: combining technology with the flexibility, adaptability, and comprehensive experience of humans.

Transform end-to-end costs. Companies must continuously improve their operations and manage costs to compensate for drops in revenue, preserve cash, and weather fluctuations in the economy and the business.

Embrace sustainability. Companies committed to such imperatives as CO2 emission reduction and decarbonized operations today will set themselves up for success in the future.

Our Client Success in Industrial Goods

Embracing Agile at Scale to Manage Disruptive Change

Ista CEO Hagen Lessing explains why he believes every company can benefit from adopting an agile-at-scale management system.

How CWS Transitioned to a Data-Driven Sales Approach

Adriana Nuneva, chief digital officer of CWS Group, explains how the company’s shift to a holistic, data-driven approach emboldened the company's growing sales force, sparking a massive boost in productivity.

Schneider Electric and the Secrets to Scaling Agile

Daniel Gheno advises businesses in transformation to start scaling as soon as possible, find a relevant way to measure progress, and always begin by asking “why?”

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