https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/rss en-us Digital technology is no longer the disruptive force in print media-it is the driving force that shapes content creation and distribution. The distinction between print and digital is not relevant anymore: publishers have become,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3359 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:57:33 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3359-the-new-news-on-print-media-transformation For leaders in large corporations, business today often feels like being on a steep treadmill with the speed control set to max. Three months ago, the company may have finished a cost-reduction transformation to remove management layers and streamline operations. Before it is even clear that the changes have taken root,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2983 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 08:34:28 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2983-a-leader-s-guide-to-always-on-transformation To encourage sustainable economic growth worldwide, a huge investment will have to be made in infrastructure projects (an estimated 5 percent of global GDP during the next 15 years), and a significant share of this investment will have to come from the private sector. Private investors are understandably cautious, however. In particular, they are concerned about political and regulatory risk and unsure how to address this complex but increasingly troubling issue, according to a new World Economic Forum report, prepared in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, which is being released at the World Economic Forum's offices in New York City,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2085 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:58:31 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2085-effective-mitigation-of-political-and-regulatory-risk-could-bolster-private-investment-in-infrastructure High-performing human resources (HR) departments help to drive the financial performance of companies, according to a new report being released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). The results of an in-depth study are detailed in the report, titled How to Set Up Great HR Functions: Connect, Prioritize, Impact. The report is the eighth in the annual Creating People Advantage series, which explores emerging trends in HR. The report's authors looked at the ten-year stock performances of the public companies in Fortune magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" rankings in 2014, and compared them with the S&P 500 Index. The 100 best companies-those with the strongest HR performance-outperformed the index by nearly 100 percentage points. However,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1992 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:01:47 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1992-data-proves-link-between-hr-performance-and-the-financial-performance-of-a-company-a-new-study-reveals For the better part of three decades, a rough, bifurcated conception of the world has driven corporate manufacturing investment and sourcing decisions. Latin America, Eastern Europe, and most of Asia have been viewed as low-cost regions. The U.S., Western Europe, and Japan have been viewed as having high costs. But this worldview now appears to be out of date. Years of steady change in wages, productivity, energy costs, currency values, and other factors are quietly but dramatically redrawing the map of global manufacturing cost competitiveness. The new map increasingly resembles a quilt-work pattern of low-cost economies, high-cost economies, and many that fall in between, spanning all regions. In some cases,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1929 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:44:02 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1929-the-shifting-economics-of-global-manufacturing These days, there are many reasons to be bullish about the future of U.S. manufacturing. As cost competitiveness in the U.S. continues to improve compared with, for example, China, Japan, and Western Europe, a growing number of companies big and small are considering repatriating the production of everything from machinery to electronics to U.S. shores. Some companies have already begun the shift. Others are planning to use the U.S. as a manufacturing platform from which to export to the rest of the world. The Boston Consulting Group has estimated that these trends could help create 2.5 million to 5 million U.S. jobs by the end of the decade. (See "Behind the American Export Surge," BCG Focus, August 2013.) But even if economic factors are swinging in favor of the U.S.,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1852 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:11:01 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1852-the-u-s-skills-gap-could-it-threaten-a-manufacturing-renaissance Dramatic shifts in cost competitiveness around the world over the past decade are starting to spur a number of companies to change their global sourcing and manufacturing investment strategies, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing: How Cost Competitiveness Is Changing Worldwide, is being released today. Global automakers are expanding production in the UK, for example, which has emerged as one of Western Europe's lowest-cost manufacturing locations, while at the same time they are slashing capacity in Australia, now one of the most expensive. In Mexico,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1851 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:04:57 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1851-dramatic-shifts-in-manufacturing-costs-are-driving-companies-to-change-their-global-production-strategies Too few corporate leaders are thinking about how the next generation of robotics will affect their workforce, operations, business models, and competitive position, experts say. The rise of robotics is gaining traction much faster than most executives realize and will have a major impact on the competitiveness of companies and countries alike, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Spending on robots worldwide is expected to... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1815 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 06:32:29 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1815-rise-of-the-machines-bcg-projects-67-billion-market-for-robots-by-2025 Employees have become an essential component of brands, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled One Branding: Uniting the Employer, Corporate, and Product Experience, is being released today. "Branding was once highly product oriented," said Antonella Mei-Pochtler, a senior partner and lead author of the report. "But brand experiences are now largely shaped by the people on the front lines who interact daily with customers, who have rising expectations. Employees have become, in effect, brand ambassadors." Consumers today,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1754 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:11:44 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1754-companies-must-unite-the-employer-corporate-and-product-experience-into-one-brand Companies That Delivered Superior Total Shareholder Return After a Period of Below-Average TSR Performance Are Heavily Overrepresented in BCG Rankings of the Top Ten Value Creators in 26 Industries. Some of the most successful value creators since the 2008 global financial crisis are companies that have figured out how to achieve a comprehensive TSR turnaround, according to a recent report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). One in 5 companies that delivered below-average TSR during the previous five-year period... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1681 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:30:41 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1681-tsr-turnarounds-are-leading-value-creators-since-global-financial-crisis A New BCG Study Finds the Biggest Shortages in Security and Enterprise Applications, but Imbalances Cross All Applications, Languages and Frameworks. Fast-rising demand for software talent is creating shortages and demand-supply imbalances for specific skill sets for countless companies across almost all sectors, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, Code Wars: The All-Industry Competition for Software Talent, is being released today. Since almost every industry depends on software in some way, the imbalances affect a range of corporate capabilities, including designing products, analyzing data, running facilities, and managing customers. The largest shortfalls,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1587 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:08:24 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1587-big-demand-supply-gaps-in-software-talent-challenge-all-industries When Attenmpting To Cope With Business Complexity, Managers Make A Fundamental Mistake: They Fail To Find Out What Their People Actually Do. As Business Grows More Complex Every Year, Management "Best Practices" Generally Wind Up Hurting Performance by Making Things More Complicated; Managers Should Embrace "Smart Simplicity" to Understand and Change Employee Behavior, According to Six Simple Rules, a New Book from The Boston Consulting Group. Managers make a fundamental mistake when trying to conquer complex business challenges:... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1508 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:20:07 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1508-business-complexity-managers-make-a-fundamental-mistake-they-fail-to-find-out-what-their-people-actually-do When trying to cope with the challenge of complexity, leaders often make a fundamental mistake: they neglect to find out what their people actually do. Instead, they rely on more-abstract management notions that hurt performance by making organizations more complicated, clumsy, and unresponsive, according to a new book by experts at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1319 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:57:10 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1319-to-cope-with-complexity-throw-out-your-management-toolkit Cheap natural gas will have a greater impact on U.S. manufacturing over the next several years than is commonly assumed, giving the U.S. a powerful-and unique-cost advantage that will benefit a wide range of industries across the full value chain, from feedstock to finished goods. This cost advantage has already started to boost investment and employment and will persist for at least five years,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1309 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:46:46 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1309-nearly-every-manufacturer-in-the-u-s-will-benefit-from-low-cost-natural-gas How do companies create value and achieve competitive advantage in an age of increasing complexity? Why organizations need the six simple rules... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1298 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:01:01 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1298-six-simple-rules-spelled-out How do companies create value and achieve competitive advantage in an age of great complexity? This is a question we constantly ask ourselves as we go about our work of helping chief executives and their leadership teams build successful businesses. When we reflect on our work with the companies we have helped over the years... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1297 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:42:45 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1297-why-managers-need-the-six-simple-rules The Millennial generation not only represents the consumer market of the future. It is also transforming the way in which companies must market their products both online and offline in order to be successful, according to a report released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1237 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:59:58 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1237-the-millennial-generation-is-changing-the-face-of-consumer-marketing Private-Equity Firms and Their Portfolio-Company CEOs Can Take Tangible Steps to Improve Their Partnerships, Says a New Report from BCG. The Report Features Perspectives Shared by PE Firms and CEOs London, November 20, 2013-Although the relationship between private-equity firms (PE) and their portfolio-company CEOs is crucial to the success of PE investments,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1086 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:36:59 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1086-pe-firms-and-their-ceo-s-need-each-other-to-succeed Organizations That Excel at Creating Trust Can Increase the Amount of Consumer Information They Can Access for Big-Data Uses by at Least Five to Ten Times, BCG Research Finds, Conferring a Bottom-Line "Trust Advantage" BOSTON, November 6, 2013-Big data has the potential to increase revenues, market share, and margins, but... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1085 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:02:21 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1085-want-consumer-data-earn-consumer-s-trust Automakers Vie with Tech and Telecom Companies for Top Rankings in The Boston Consulting Group's 2013 Survey. While technology and telecommunications companies once again top The Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) survey of most innovative companies in 2013, the global automobile industry is staking a powerful claim for its resurgent capabilities. Automakers hold 3 of the top 10 places in the new survey released today, as well as... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1048 Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:50:11 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1048-bcg-names-50-most-innovative-companies Culture is hot. In our discussions and work with leaders in business, government, and not-for-profit organizations, we have observed a markedly increasing emphasis on culture-for a host of reasons. Leaders trying to reshape their organization's culture are asking: How can we break down silos and become more collaborative or innovative? Others, struggling to execute strategy, are wondering:... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/707 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:08:13 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/707-getting-and-keeping-a-high-performance-culture By 2025, innovations based on more integrated cross-industry cooperation that capitalizes on mostly existing technologies and preventive data analytics will radically improve how people travel and transport goods, [...]. Based on the Forumï؟½sï؟½Connected Worldï؟½project, a yearlong research effort involving more than 50 leading companies from the travel, transportation, and information and communications technologies (ICT) industries, the report identifies several... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/706 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:07:35 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/706-cross-industry-integration-and-big-data-will-open-a-world-of-innovations-in-global-mobility-by-2025 The use of "big data" ï؟½ vast amounts of varied, fast-moving information ï؟½ has the potential to magnify and accelerate the ability of businesses to understand customers and fineï؟½tune products. Despite the availability of new techniques to make sense of big data, many senior leaders we encounter today are having a hard time figuring out where to start. We see three overarching ways in which business leaders can unlock the value of big data:... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/705 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:06:32 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/705-how-to-get-started-with-big-data Book Brings Together 50 Articles on How Companies Can Take Advantage of New Opportunities in an Age of Accelerating Change. [Own the Future offers 50 powerful ways for executives to face the challenges and seize the opportunities in a time of economic restructuring and rising uncertainty. At the bookï؟½s core is a manifesto forï؟½] http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/588 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:57:25 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/588-bcg-releases-a-compendium-of-winning-moves-and-strategies-for-leaders-to-own-the-future