COVID-19

Lessons from High-Performing Capital Projects amid COVID-19

Teams must build five capabilities to overcome the odds.

Redrawing the Map of Global Trade

Even when the global economy fully recovers, the international trade landscape will look dramatically different in the years ahead than it did before the pandemic.

Order-to-Cash Platforms Are the Future

A platform approach to O2C optimization can turn an administrative process into a business driver.

Procurement in the Time of COVID-19

Procurement will be critical in getting companies through the crisis. Now’s the time for CEOs to strengthen relationships with their suppliers’ CEOs.

Winning the Fight in the Private Sector

How should companies operate in today’s uncertain environment and transform to thrive in the postpandemic world? In the coming weeks, we share our insights and experiences as we help companies reopen and emerge stronger.

Digital Operations

Organizing for Digital Operations at Scale

It’s not enough to establish the right organizational structure. Companies must also attract and retain digital talent and overcome the limitations of legacy IT systems.

The How-To Guide to Digital Operations

Digitizing manufacturing operations is imperative—yet immensely difficult. Companies that have tried have seen mixed results. We’ve identified factors that separate leaders from laggards.

How Ford Organized for Digital Operations at Scale

Digitization—when done right and at scale—yields impressive results. Discover how manufacturing companies can learn from Ford’s success as Mike Mikula, Ford’s global chief engineer, shares insights with BCG’s Jonathan Van Wyck.

Putting Value First in Digital Operations

Tune out the tech sales pitches. Focus instead on what you seek to achieve from a digital transformation.

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グローバル・サプライチェーンのレジリエンスを高める

企業はパンデミックにより露呈した構造的問題に対処するため、グローバル生産・供給ネットワークを再考し、レジリエンスを高める必要があります――たとえ、それがコスト増につながるとしても。

Design to Value Accelerator ――BCGの製品コスト削減支援プログラム

自社の製品ポートフォリオを再評価し、不要な機能を捨てて消費者にとって最適な価値を引き出すために活用可能なBCG独自のアプロ―チ「Design to Value Accelerator」をご紹介します。

デジタル・サプライチェーンで可視化から価値を生み出す

サプライチェーンのエンドツーエンドの可視化は、さまざまな業界の企業にとって長年の課題ですが、現在ではデータとアナリティクス、新テクノロジー（AI、センサー、IoT等）、新しい働き方を活用することで従来にないソリューションを生み出すことが可能となっています。可視化により得られる洞察を基に戦略的にトランスフォーメーションを進める企業は、コスト削減、運転資本の最適化、売上成長を実現できます。 

BCGが読む経営の論点2020

さまざまな世界的構造変化が進むなかで、次の10年に企業が競争に勝ち、継続的に成長するためには、経営基盤を従来の枠組みを超えて進化させることが求められます。

Supply Chain Management

Your Supply Chain Needs a Sustainability Strategy

Companies seeking to reduce their environmental footprint should focus on one element of their operations in particular: their global supply chains.

The New Reality for Chief Supply Chain Officers

As CSCOs shift into a second phase of their COVID-19 response, five key actions will help them prepare for recovery.

Building the Bionic Supply Chain

Where digital efforts have fallen short—and how to use human-machine collaboration to take performance to the next level.

Conquering Complexity in Supply Chains with Digital Twins

Companies can anticipate risks and make critical optimization decisions far sooner than previously possible.

Design, Engineer, Build

Why High Oil Prices Can Be Bad for Energy Companies

During price upturns, companies often indulge in bad behavior, such as “window dressing” capital projects with overly optimistic cost and completion assumptions—jeopardizing project performance.

Think Big

Behind Think Big is transparency and collaboration. That's how BCG conceives a successful large capital project. Let’s think big to make big things happen.

The Most Innovative Companies 2020: The Serial Innovation Imperative

Facing turbulent and fast-changing markets, innovators need a well-tuned innovation system that can spot emerging product, service, and business model opportunities—and then rapidly develop and successfully scale them—over and over again.

Service & Support

Order-to-Cash Platforms Are the Future

A platform approach to O2C optimization can turn an administrative process into a business driver.

Redefining Customer Service for the Future

Leaders who have stabilized their contact center operations must now think about harnessing the positive changes unleashed by the crisis.

Unlock Value in Banking with E2E Process Transformation

BCG’s approach delivers greater efficiency, an improved customer experience, and a more engaged workforce, enabling banks to meet today’s challenges.

Rethink Support Functions to Lead Through Tough Times

Excellent functional level strategies can yield cost savings, offer greater customer satisfaction, provide a more responsive platform for driving transformation—and sharpen your company’s competitive edge.

Cost & Efficiency

Simpler, Faster, and More Efficient Operations in Financial Services

A practical approach to cost cutting can yield savings of up to 80%.

Zero-Based Budgeting Comes to Business Functions

To prime your white-collar processes for digital (or any) transformation, drill down to the process essentials.

The Corporate Center of the Future

The growth of automation, digitalization, and virtual collaboration is putting pressure on companies to reimagine the way their corporate centers operate.

The CFO’s Vital Role in Corporate Transformation

CFOs can maintain a relentless focus on value creation by serving as strategic advisors to business leaders, overseeing performance, and communicating a persuasive equity story to investors.

Change Management

Tap Your Company’s Collective Intelligence with Mindfulness

When team members collaborate to solve complex problems, a culture of tolerance and acceptance often matters more to success than specialized knowledge.

Are You Ready to Transform?

Change is hard, but readiness is all. Companies prepared to manage the leader, people, and program journeys can double their chances of success.

Serious About Quality? Then Make It a Part of Your Culture

It’s essential to focus on culture as the context for quality, rather than just promulgating standards that provide the content of quality.

Unleashing the Power of Mindfulness in Corporations

Companies that apply this centuries-old solution to digital-age challenges can unlock the full potential of agility.

Secrets Behind Successful Large Capex Projects

Secrets Behind Successful Large Capex Projects

To keep projects on track, managers must excel on multiple fronts–including fostering transparency into project challenges, encouraging collaboration among all stakeholders, and candidly assessing project risks.

Digital Supply Chain Transformation

BCG's Pepe Rodriguez on our approach to digital supply chain transformations and the four aspects that we like to consider.

Achieving Operational Excellence in the Modern Business Environment

今、第4次産業革命が始まろうとしています。ビジネスリーダーは戦略を端から端まで再考しなければなりません。BCGのChristian Greiserが、BCGがどのように世界各地のクライアント企業と協働して今日の複雑な環境におけるオペレーションのあり方を見直しているかについて語ります。

Frédérik Jobert on Large Capital Project Management

External Innovation Basics from an R&D Expert

In this TED talk, BCG's Michael Ringel reveals the collaborative solution that any company can use to bring innovation in from the outside.

Olaf Rehse on Lean in Services

To keep projects on track, managers must excel on multiple fronts–including fostering transparency into project challenges, encouraging collaboration among all stakeholders, and candidly assessing project risks.