Insights from Boston Consulting Group on how to position an organisation to change the game, win and own the future.
I. ADAPTIVE
1. Why Strategy Needs A Strategy: Classical, Adaptive, Shaping, Visionary, Survival
2. Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
II. GLOBAL
6. Globality: The World Beyond Globalisation
7. The New Global Challengers
8. Winning in Emerging-Market Cities
9. What the West Doesn’t Get about China
III. CONNECTED
12. Data to Die For
13. The Collision of Power and Portability
14. China’s Digital Generation 3.0: The Online Empire
IV. SUSTAINABLE
15. The Benefits of Sustainability-Driven Innovation
16. Creating Practical Consumer Value from Sustainability
17. Potential Impacts of the New Sustainability Champions
V. CUSTOMER FIRST
18. Breaking Compromises
19. Brand-Centric Transformation: Balancing Art and Data
20. Unlocking Growth in the Middle: A View from India and China
21. Treasure Hunt
VI. FIT TO WIN
22. High-Performance Organisations
23. Shaping Up: The Delayered Look
24. Getting More from Lean: Seven Success Factors
25: The Demand-Driven Supply Chain
26. Pricing Fluency
27. The IT Organisation of the Future
VII. Value Driven
28. The Experience Curve Reviewed
29. The Rule of Three and Four: A BCG Classic Revisited
30. The CEO As Investor
31. Focusing Corporate Strategy on Value Creation
32. Powering Up for Postmerger Integration
33. Resilience: Lessons from Family Businesses
VIII. TRUSTED
34. Social Advantage: We define “social advantage” as a company’s ability to generate value and achieve competitive advantage by sustainably aligning its business model with its broader social and ecological context.
35. From Reciprocity to Reputation
36. The Return of the Politician
37. Collaboration Rules
IX. BOLD
38. Thinking in New Boxes: A “box,” in our definition, is a belief, concept, working hypothesis, or other mental model you use to interpret the world in front of you. True creativity requires you and your company to constantly doubt your current boxes and eventually replace them with new ones. In an ever-changing environment, no idea is good forever. The brain’s hardwiring will tend to lead you and your organization to hold on to tired assumptions and constraints. You’re likely to be seduced by a natural bias toward ideas that confirm, rather than contradict, your current way of seeing things.
39. Rethinking Scenarios: What a Difference a Day Makes
40. Business Model Innovation: When the Game Gets Tough, Change the Game
Business Model Innovation
41. The Deconstruction of Value Chains
42. Time-Based Management
X. INSPIRING
47. Probing
48. Smart Simplicity
49. Strategic Optimism: How to Shape the Future
50. Lessons From My Three Decades with the Change Monster
Deimler, M. Lesser, R. Rhodes, D. and Sinha, J. 2013. Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group, John Wiley & Sons
