The redit crisis has become a global financial crisis. In a new publication series “Collateral Damage” the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) assess the impact of the financial crisis on the economy and discusses its impacts. The two parts of the series published so far are: “Collateral Damage Part 1: What the Crisis in the Credit [...]

The Boston Consulting Group has published insights on the topic how web 2.0 effects financial institutions. Sumit Sahni and Philip Evans argue that financial institutions are not prepared to compete in web 2.0. They recommend to run the web presence as a business not as a distribution channel. BCG Opportunities for Action: Arming for the [...]

In 2001 the Boston Consulting Group has created a Strategy Gallery. BCG call it an online “metaphor engine.”  It is a collection of more than 250 cases dedicated to strategic management. The cases are based on the idea that metaphors can provide insights to strategic thinking. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.management-lab.com%2Fmanagementlab%2F%3Fp%3D237′; addthis_title = ‘The+Strategy+Gallery’; addthis_pub = ”;

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published an intereesting report last month. The title is “Missing Link – Focusing Corporate Strategy on Value Creation“. It is the tenth annual report in BCG’s Value Creators series. The study is written by Eric Olsen, Frank Plaschke and Daniel Stelter. The authors reflect the “time of turbulence in the [...]

Wharton and The Boston Consulting Group have published an interesting report focussing on the world’s resources, such as raw materials, capital and talent. The main topic of the report is the unprecedented “race” for resources which is reshaping global business, and how key political and financial trends in emerging economies are likely to affect companies doing [...]