Business Strategy

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

_____________ Includes 10 Free Bonuses To many people, strategic planning is something meant only for big businesses, but it is equally applicable to small and medium businesses. Strategic planning is matching the strengths of your business to available opportunities. This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven strategic plan. The book is packed with guides, worksheets and checklists that make it easy to apply all that knowledge to your business. Here's what’s in the book: * The Need for a Strategic Plan * How to Create a Mission ...

To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn’t get done.

Finally! A simple guide to help any product manager create a realistic, data-driven product strategy and roadmap!For any product manager or product team leader, formulating and executing on a solid product strategy and roadmap will always offer opportunities and present challenges. Today’s corporations require strategic-thinking businesspeople who have the requisite business acumen to gather customer and market insights, assess past and current business performance, and recalibrate resources to maintain or gain competitive advantage—all while influencing others who are needed to drive ...

Scaling an Amazon business isn’t just about running ads—it’s about building a system that drives consistent growth and lasting profitability. Dr. Travis Zigler knows this first hand. As a former optometrist who built and sold a multimillion-dollar brand, he developed a repeatable strategy that helps sellers break free from rising ad costs, unpredictable results, and wasted effort. Survival Guide to Selling on Amazon goes beyond surface-level advice, offering a clear and tested approach to transforming an Amazon store into a high-profit, scalable business. Dr. Zigler reveals how to ...

The Failure of Risk Management provides effective solutions to significant faults in current risk analysis methods. Conventional approaches to managing risk lack accurate quantitative analysis methods, yielding strategies that can actually make things worse. Many widely used methods have no systems to measure performance, resulting in inaccurate selection and ineffective application of risk management strategies. These fundamental flaws propagate unrealistic perceptions of risk in business, government, and the general public.

Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - and they have found their voice.

In this book, The Boston Consulting Group's Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha offer a proven method to determine the strategy approach that is best for your company. They start by helping you assess your business environment—how unpredictable it is, how much power you have to change it, and how harsh it is—a critical component of getting strategy right.

What if the most powerful business asset you’ll own isn’t your team, your technology, or even your intellectual property—but your prompts? In “Prompt to the Future,” Daniel Kim reveals how AI frameworks are fundamentally reshaping innovation and business. Through vivid personal experiences—from late-night epiphanies with AI-generated music to building Meteor, an AI-powered book creation platform—Kim demonstrates why we’re experiencing nothing less than “the end of innocence” in our relationship with technology. This isn’t another cautionary tale about AI replacing ...

Extreme success, by definition, lies beyond the realm of normal action. If you want to achieve extreme success, you can’t operate like everybody else and settle for mediocrity. You need to remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success. The 10X Rule shows you how!

Sun Tzu's Art of War for Women helps women find the peaceful path to success through strategies made famous in the ancient Chinese text, The Art of War. Female wisdom, or common sense, is about avoiding needless confrontation, conserving energy for the things that matter, and seeking an outcome in which everyone wins. And for women, as for Sun Tzu, success doesn't come simply from knowing what to do, but from knowing who you are.

Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate change are only getting worse. How can you ensure your organization is taking the right steps to mitigate this threat - and what can you, as an individual, do to help? These articles by experts and researchers will help you understand how climate change is affecting the future of business.

Reaching Your Real Potential: Trust Your Gut is for anyone with a product to sell, a service to offer or an idea to promote... Trust Your Gut is about how to reach your real potential by being yourself and being at your best, at the same time. The book presents a simple yet highly effective formula for getting to the next level in your career along with field-tested strategies for getting past the common barriers to greater success and self-fulfillment. What This Book Is: This book is not a collection of hopeful theories and platitudes. Rather, it is the distillation of twenty-five years of...

Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibility, surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is prelude to victory. This dislocation results from a strategic indirect approach. Reflect for a moment on the results of direct confrontation (trench war in World War I) versus indirect dislocation (Blitzkreig in World II). Liddell Hart is also tonic for business and political planning: Just change the vocabulary and his concepts fit.

Written by the executive who designed and implemented it, the neuroscientist who helped make it work, and the academic who explains why it works and how to do it, Leading Transformation introduces an innovative yet proven process for creating breakthrough change.

In Project Zero Trust: A Story About a Strategy for Aligning Security and the Business, George Finney, chief security officer at Southern Methodist University, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of Zero Trust implementation. Presented in the form of a fictional narrative involving a breach at a company, the book tracks the actions of the company's new IT security director. Listeners will learn John Kindervag's 5-Step methodology for implementing Zero Trust, the four Zero Trust design principles, and how to limit the impact of a breach.

To create a link from now to the future, emerging leaders and managers need to create or fine-tune goals and strategies. This “what to do and why” is of critical importance. After all, business leaders have invested greatly in capabilities to bring about innovation and creativity. Yet these pursuits won’t result in anything concrete if you don’t understand what’s needed to formulate and carry out a strategy. There are so many books and resources on strategy and strategic planning that you can wind up feeling confused and overwhelmed. However, this book is different. It’s written...

Written by distinguished professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for exams, or if you're simply interested in the subject.

Is content creation an element of marketing? You may be wondering whether any or all of that digital content is marketing in today's digitally dominant culture. Yes, it is. That’s the simple answer. All content has the same goal: to engage your audience. This is known as pillar-based marketing or PBM, and it refers to the practice of entering into an agreement with the reader with each piece of content. The time spent reading or watching a piece of content will in some ways be beneficial to your site's visitors (information, entertainment, etc.). You may profit by making an idea pitch, ...

Are you ready for the changes in Consumer Behavior? Most customers today expect stores to provide easy shopping experience. In the past few years, customers have shifted their behavior not only within the physical store but also digitally. There is no online or offline marketing strategy anymore, but how both working together in a unique customer-centric manner. This is the Omnichannel Marketing. Your customer doesn’t think in terms of channels…physical stores, online stores, websites, mobile apps, social channels, …it’s all a big blur to them. Instead, customers see the company or ...