BCG PerspectivesMore from BCG PerspectivesBusiness Strategy AlignmentWithout Strategic Renewal Plan, Is Your Enterprise Destined to Be Atari or Blockbuster?Shining today, gone tomorrow? For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Netflix a Blockbuster. It's harder to stay on top than to get there. How can you avoid the seemingly inevitable and become an "evergreen" corporation?November 30, 2015All TechnologyWelcome to the 'Always-on' Transformation Taking Place in BusinessFor leaders in large corporations, business today often feels like being on a steep treadmill with the speed control set to max.November 11, 2015All LogisticsCPG Supply Chain Leaders Focus on Transportation, Network Redesign, Report SaysThe most pressing concerns for consumer packaged goods companies today are transportation and network redesign - priorities that just two years ago barely registered on their radar, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group and the Grocery Manufacturers Association.October 23, 2015All LogisticsMany Jobs Still Performed by Humans - But the Real Robotics Revolution Is About to BeginIt has been roughly four decades since industrial robots - with mechanical arms that can be programmed to weld, paint and pick up and place objects with monotonous regularity - first began to transform assembly lines in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Yet walk the floor of any manufacturer, from metal shops to electronics factories, and you might be surprised by how many tasks are still performed by human hands - even some that could be done by machines.October 9, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentWill Industry 4.0 Cause Huge Loss of Jobs - or Will Workforce Adapt to New Skills?Industrial production was transformed by steam power in the nineteenth century, electricity in the early twentieth century, and automation in the 1970s. These waves of technological advancement did not reduce overall employment, however. Although the number of manufacturing jobs decreased, new jobs emerged and the demand for new skills grew. Today, another workforce transformation is on the horizon as manufacturing experiences a fourth wave of technological advancement: the rise of new digital industrial technologies that are collectively known as Industry 4.0.October 7, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentRobotics? It's Still Cheaper to Do Things Manually for Most Companies. But That May Be Changing.It has been roughly four decades since industrial robots - with mechanical arms that can be programmed to weld, paint and pick up and place objects with monotonous regularity - first began to transform assembly lines in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Yet walk the floor of any manufacturer, from metal shops to electronics factories, and you might be surprised by how many tasks are still performed by human hands - even some that could be done by machines.September 30, 2015All LogisticsAutonomous Vehicles Promise Tremendous Societal BenefitsThe widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could eliminate the more than 30,000 annual U.S. road fatalities, improve travel time by as much as 40 percent, recover up to 80 billion hours lost to commuting and congestion, and reduce fuel consumption by as much as 40 percent.September 18, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentDetermining What Consumers Want Turns on More Than Demographics, Research SaysThe conventional view is that consumers are fickle and inconsistent, hard to understand and predict, and therefore unmanageable. In fact, they are perfectly consistent, perfectly understandable, and quite predictable.September 4, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentPlan Developed to Improve Retail Promotion Planning, Evaluation and ExecutionBrick-and-mortar retailers - including supermarkets, discounters, drugstores and mass merchandisers - rely heavily on promotions, which typically account for 10 to 45 percent of their total revenues. Although promotions are a powerful instrument for increasing sales and margin, they are also difficult to use effectively.August 4, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentEconomic Slowdown No Hurdle to Consumption Patterns of Affluent Households in ChinaDespite the well-publicized slowdown in economic growth, overall consumer sentiment in China can still be described as cautiously optimistic. More precisely, caution characterizes the lower end of the consumer market, while optimism envelops the high end. China, in other words, has become a two-speed consumer market. The optimistic, "high-speed" consumer market disproportionately consists of middle- to upper-middle-class and affluent households. These consumers also make up the bulk of the digital class of active online shoppers.July 2, 2015Previous PagePage 3 of 7Next Page
