Our clients include many of the world’s most ambitious organizations. Many of them rank among the world’s 500 largest companies, but we also advise midsized businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.
We build long-term partnerships with most of our clients. We work on all issues that drive competitive advantage and performance.
For example, we help clients:
- Develop business and growth strategies
- Manage their business portfolios using a total shareholder return perspective
- Reshape their businesses through M&A and postmerger integration efforts
- Create and execute strategies for global advantage
- Create collaborative and productive organizations
- Drive efficiency and productivity through approaches such as delayering, asset productivity, and time-based competition
- Build world-class capabilities in areas such as marketing, pricing, and supply chain management
- Envision and build their IT organizations of the future
- Better understand their customers, suppliers, and competitors in changing markets
- Reap the rewards of innovation
- Navigate the relationship between business and society, developing and executing winning strategies for sustainability and social impact
- Leverage the power of their people to maximum advantage
Common to these efforts is their scale, scope, and impact: they are critical initiatives that lead to fundamental change and improvement in our clients’ competitive positions.
Growth-Share Matrix
Over the past four decades, BCG's growth-share matrix has become the standard approach to capital allocation in multisector, multisegment companies. "Stars," "dogs," "cash cows," and "question marks" have become firmly embedded in the language of business. View PDF The Experience Curve
The experience curve grew out of work BCG did in the 1960s for a major manufacturer of semiconductors. It would become a conceptual cornerstone in the understanding of both the role market share plays in establishing competitive advantage, and the importance of asset allocation in portfolio management. View PDF Time-Based Competition
Time is the secret weapon of business. Our concept of time-based competition represented a new paradigm in strategic thinking and business practice. No successful organization has since been able to ignore the fact that speed often matters as much as direction. View PDF