IBM’s Roger Premo shares why focusing on proven use cases—like call centers and back-office ops—is the smartest way to unlock GenAI value now.
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AI Changes the Game in Cost
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2025年7月11日
Rather than optimizing isolated tasks, companies must transform ways of working and break down organizational silos.
Interview
2025年7月8日
AI offers huge potential for telcos to systematically reduce expenses. But capturing that potential at scale requires a different mindset.
Article
2025年4月18日
Procurement is poised to capitalize on AI, which can streamline manual work in key processes by up to 30% and reduce overall costs by roughly 15% to 45%.
Navigating Uncertainty
Article
2025年8月26日
In today’s volatile environment, the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement are greater than ever.
Video
2025年8月1日
How to Thrive in a VUCA World
Jan-Maarten de Vries, President of Fleet Management Solutions at Bridgestone, describes how robust scenario planning and an outside-in approach to strategic development can help CEOs navigate the challenges ahead.
Article
2025年6月12日
A survey of global manufacturing leaders shows how tariffs and other factors have made footprint decisions far more complex.
Article
2025年5月2日
In the face of recent tariff proposals and widespread economic uncertainty, IT leaders are prioritizing controlling costs—and doubling down on AI investments to help manage budgets and boost productivity.
Article
2025年3月17日
Companies repeatedly launch cost reduction programs—with mixed results. To cut costs sustainably, they need to redesign the organization and change the underlying behaviors that lead to cost creep.
Article
2025年3月11日
How to cut strategically without losing sight of the bigger picture.
Optimize Operational Efficiency
Article
2025年10月23日
The pressure is on for manufacturers. But opportunity awaits those who rethink their approach to AI, efficiency, and operations.
Article
2025年9月29日
Companies can improve profits by up to 10%, simply by getting their frontline employees and managers focused on the right tasks.
Video
2025年7月22日
Make Cost Discipline a Cultural Priority
Roland Rott, CEO of GE Healthcare, explores the transformative potential of AI, while also encouraging leaders to build a culture that prioritizes sustainable cost management
Article
2025年6月9日
COOs always focus on costs, but inflation, uncertainty, and other prevalent factors today increase the urgency of making their companies’ operations more efficient.
Article
2025年3月6日
Companies have already taken steps to reduce costs along the supply chain. Further reductions require tougher decisions in several key areas.
Video
2025年1月27日
The Cost-Saving Power in Procurement
Declining producer prices have given process industry firms a crucial but limited window of opportunity to renegotiate contracts and set a new cost baseline.
Enable Cost Excellence Across the Organization and Leadership
Video
2025年7月11日
Finding Advantages in Adversity
Caroline Farberger, former CEO of ICA Insurance, explains how CEOs can protect their margins and excel in uncertain times by embracing digitalization, building resilience into business models, and focusing on areas of competitive advantage.
Article
2025年6月16日
CMOs are increasingly being asked to do more with fewer resources. Discover where they can succeed and how they can unlock savings to fund new growth.
Article
2024年12月13日
To design a COGS program that delivers sustainable savings, manufacturers should address five critical areas.
Focus less on rigid details and more on flexible, tech-powered planning.
Article
2024年2月22日
Rethinking organization design does more than eliminate unnecessary expenses. It aligns decisions and resources with strategic goals, and promotes sustained performance.
Article
2024年2月7日
Having an emotionally strong workforce makes it likelier that organization-wide changes will succeed. Cultivating it means helping people fulfill four fundamental human needs.
Rethink Every Dollar with Zero-Based Budgeting
Video
2025年7月2日
Power Strategic Growth
Zero-Based Transformation examines unquestioned spending habits to ensure that every dollar supports a company's vision and fuels its growth.
Video
2025年7月2日
Set CFOs Up for Success
By taking the right steps in the early days of a Zero-Based Transformation initiative, CFOs can eliminate waste and ensure that every dollar enables growth objectives.
Video
2025年7月2日
Put People at the Center of Value Creation
In Zero-Based Transformation, employees help identify inefficiencies, improving engagement and making cost initiatives more sustainable.
Video
2025年7月2日
Tackle CEOs' Cost Concerns
Zero-Based Organizations rebuild cost structures from the ground up while mapping resources to value in order to support innovation and deliver sustainable savings.
Video
2025年7月2日
Fix What Most Cost Transformation Miss
By treating cost discipline like a business capability and building a culture of cost ownership, Zero-Based Transformation helps companies become leaner, more agile, and better prepared for the future.
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2025年5月23日
Taking a Holistic View of Value
BCG’s Riddhish Dubal shares how CEOs can identify where value lies and prioritize initiatives focusing on top line, cost, and more for long-term results.
Video
2025年3月31日
Taking Control of Cost in Rail
The Rail Cost Comparator is a unique benchmarking initiative that drives substantial cost reductions and helps maximize TSR throughout the rail industry.
Video
Taking Control of Your IT Spending
IT costs can be reduced much easier, and to a much greater extent, than many realize. Michael Grebe explains how.
Video
Building the Factory of the Future Today
BCG’s Daniel Kuepper explains how manufacturers can strategically approach cost management to bring about the factory of the future while reducing costs in the present.
Video
Asking Hard Questions to Deliver Lasting Cost Results
BCG’s Mei-Jung Chen illustrates how leaders of consumer electronics companies can ask the right questions to unlock short- and long-term cost benefits.
Leaders need to thoughtfully manage costs now to sustain future growth. But each company’s path to cost savings is unique, as BCG’s Paul Goydan explains.
Video
Optimizing Costs Without Compromising Competitiveness
Discover how companies can balance cost-saving and long-term growth with Jacopo Brunelli's insights.
Video
Talent, Tech, and Resilience
Dustin Burke outlines three key challenges operations leaders can expect to face when navigating a cost transformation in 2024.
Embed Tech into Cost Excellence
Article
2024年4月30日
Too often, IT projects fail to live up to their hype. Why does it keep happening—and how can it be fixed?
Article
2024年2月22日
Making IT a core element of a cost initiative allows the organization to optimize operations, reduce spending, improve service delivery, and enhance competitiveness and efficiency.
Video
Build or Buy GenAI Solutions?
Does your company need custom GenAI solutions, or are off-the-shelf products the better choice? BCG’s Rob Derow discusses the factors to consider when making these decisions.
Article
2023年8月29日
Companies have reinvented their business models, IT architecture, and ways of working. So why are they taking an outdated—and largely unsuccessful—approach to ERP?
Look Across Industries
Article
2025年11月4日
As consumer spending slows, service firms must harness AI and automation to protect customer experience—and their bottom line.
Article
2025年10月30日
Three imperatives—do the right work, use the right resources, and do the work right—hold the key to better productivity for grid companies.
Article
2025年10月2日
Companies spend more on software each year, even as the market gets more fragmented and challenging to navigate. A smarter approach can reduce costs and complexity.
Article
2025年9月8日
Established automakers face a dual challenge: slowing demand and new competition from companies with lower manufacturing costs.
Article
2025年7月23日
For higher education institutions, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but how fast can institutions make it happen.
Report
2025年4月29日
Cost optimization can provide the resilience that asset managers need in an era of unpredictable markets.
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February 23, 2025 | Bloomberg
BCG's Paul Goydan spoke to Bloomberg on how North American and European executives in particular are increasingly concerned about margins and profitability.
