COVID-19

Designing Resilience into Global Supply Chains

To address flaws exposed by the pandemic, companies should accelerate efforts to revamp their worldwide manufacturing and sourcing networks—even if that means extra cost.

Lessons from High-Performing Capital Projects amid COVID-19

Teams must build five capabilities to overcome the odds.

A Five-Step Agenda for Smarter Government Spending

Many public sector agencies face financial strain after the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the best practices for reducing expenses while raising efficiency and effectiveness.

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.

Supply Chain Management

Bionic Supply Chains Power a New Operating Model

They improve the speed and quality of decisions as well as resilience and performance.

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.

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.

Procurement

The Future of Procurement for Pharma Operations

Companies that lead the way in initiating and scaling up a transformation will gain significant advantages in cost and risk management.

Supercharge Savings by Getting Closer to Suppliers

To optimize their cost-cutting efforts, smart companies are turning to their suppliers.

A New Reality for Oil and Gas Procurement and Supply Chains

Faced with an unprecedented crisis, operators should use a dual approach that supports suppliers and embraces strategic partnerships to build industry resilience.

Empowering Governments to Buy Smarter in Defense

As economic pressure grows and budgets shrink, procurement officials need to revise their negotiating strategy with contractors so they get more for their countries’ money.

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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。

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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。

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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。

Lean and Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing Demands Agile Production and Support

Companies can reduce costly delays and add value by building agile into their factories.

Shifting Gears in Auto Manufacturing

To succeed in a future of electric vehicles, manufacturers must understand and prepare for the profound effects of this transformation on operations and labor requirements.

Additive Manufacturing Needs a Business Ecosystem

Companies may finally be able to achieve the long-awaited step change in the industry’s development—if they act collectively, rather than individually.

A Manufacturing Strategy Built for Trade Instability

Shifting tariffs grab the headlines, but the rise of Southeast Asia and differences in worker productivity are also altering the cost equation for global manufacturing.

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.

Service & Support

Smart Simplicity in Global Business Services

Now is the time to reduce complexity in GBS. This can help companies achieve excellence and transform customer experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Soft Side of Operational Transformation

The Soft Side of Operational Transformation

Half the battle in transformations is overcoming mental roadblocks to change in the organization. Here’s what leaders can learn from behavioral science to improve the odds of success.

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。

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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

Half the battle in transformations is overcoming mental roadblocks to change in the organization. Here’s what leaders can learn from behavioral science to improve the odds of success.