Build-Operate-Transfer in Action
Vanessa Lyon describes how BCG enables clients to build internal capabilities so that they can own and drive their digital transformations.
Traditional companies are facing an ultimatum: transform or die. With BCG’s Build-Operate-Transfer model, transformation wins as clients are enabled to achieve significant digital change quickly and at scale across their organization.
Your company may have already defined a digital vision and roadmap, run end-to-end pilots that demonstrate the value of digital efforts, and initiated a plan for deploying new digital approaches. But if your company is like most, you could still be struggling to deliver digital value at scale, at scope, and at speed.
To help organizations rapidly scale new capabilities and ways of working, BCG has developed a unique capability-building model: Build-Operate-Transfer. Build-Operate-Transfer helps organizations become bionic—bringing together the people and technology parts of the organization and enabling them to work together seamlessly and create true competitive advantage.
Vanessa Lyon describes how BCG enables clients to build internal capabilities so that they can own and drive their digital transformations.
Using our unique Build-Operate-Transfer model, organizations can succeed by building their own capabilities in order to own and drive their digital transformation:
Choosing this path requires a strong commitment from the company, in terms of both executive engagement and upfront investment in reskilling and upskilling. To meet these needs, we offer a variety of upskilling programs:
Digital Skill Builder is the enablement and capability-building engine that allows companies to develop skills and expertise in core digital areas, including agile at scale, UX and UI design, coding, blockchain, and cybersecurity.
Upskilling Bootcamp, launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis, offers virtual, targeted, world-class learning journeys that help companies build a stronger and more flexible workforce in just four weeks. Learn more.
These programs are powered by UP!, BCG’s Upskilling Platform, which allows employees to access their customized learning journeys and be recognized for their progress and enables leaders to digitally monitor their teams’ upskilling progress.
BCG’s Build-Operate-Transfer consultants will help your company learn how to navigate the digital space so that you can take control of your own direction. The approach will help you enhance your operations to:
To assist digital transformations, BCG brings market-leading expertise in a variety of capabilities and in delivering large, complex digital projects. We are truly committed to helping your company build digital capabilities, transferring them to you when you are ready to move ahead independently.
The breadth of our Build-Operate-Transfer services and talent pool allows us to support your digital transformation from strategic inception all the way through to implementation. We draw on our network of more than 6,000 experts—including experts from our specialty businesses such as BCG GAMMA and BCG Digital Ventures—as each unique situation demands. Because we are not an IT service provider, we operate with “tech neutrality” and bring no conflicts of interest to the table as we help you evaluate and select emerging technologies.
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