Strategy Consulting

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.

There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show listeners how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement.

From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals.

Are you ready to redefine your consulting practice in the age of AI? Artificial Intelligence is no longer on the horizon—it's here, reshaping the consulting landscape at an unprecedented pace. Clients demand faster insights, deeper analysis, and more innovative solutions than ever before. To stay competitive and deliver exceptional value, you must harness the power of AI. But where do you start? 100 Ways AI Can Help... Management Consultants is the definitive, practical playbook you've been waiting for. Authored by seasoned consultant and UCD Smurfit School professor Joe Houghton, this ...

To make these big moves happen for your company, you’re going to have to break through inertia, gamesmanship, and risk aversion. You’re going to have to mitigate human biases and manage group dynamics. Eight practical shifts can help you do this, and unlock bigger, bolder, better strategies. This is not another by-the-book approach to strategy. It’s not another trudge through frameworks or small-scale case studies promising a secret formula for success. It’s an irreverent, fact-driven, and humorous take on the real world of strategic decision making.

Unlock the future of business with "AI Consulting Mastery," the essential guide for navigating the AI revolution. In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, staying ahead is not just an option—it's a necessity. This comprehensive eBook takes you into the heart of Artificial Intelligence, unraveling its complexities and revealing its potential to transform businesses across every industry. Begin your journey with a deep dive into the AI landscape, where you'll discover the crucial role of AI consultants in today's business environment. Learn to identify and harness AI ...

Dive into the rapidly expanding world of AI consulting with "Navigating the AI Consulting Landscape," your essential guide to mastering AI services across niche markets. Whether you’re a seasoned consultant or a business looking to integrate AI solutions, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap tailored to your needs. Start with a thorough introduction to AI consulting's potential in specialized markets and explore how AI is transforming industry sectors such as healthcare, financial services, and retail. Uncover strategies for developing winning AI initiatives aligned with business ...

The authors of the best-selling Competing on Internet Time (a Businessweek top-10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy, and execution.

PIVOTAL Strategy: The Infinity Marketing Canvas® and Framework The New Success Formula for Purpose-Driven Marketing and Leadership This groundbreaking book introduces the PIVOTAL Infinity Marketing Canvas®, a purpose-driven and practical strategy model that empowers leaders to transform marketing and management into a force for meaningful and sustainable growth — converting purpose into infinite market power while leaving the competition behind. Marc Oliver Opresnik, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, joins forces with world-renowned experts Philip Kotler and Svend Hollensen to ...

What does it take for a business owner to be happy after leaving the business? Multiple surveys show that a majority of owners have regrets a year after leaving their businesses. After the initial “vacation period” of travel and recreation, too often they find themselves adrift without their companies. They lack the activity, purpose and identity that their businesses provided. The Exit Planning Coach Handbook is a guide for advisors to business owners. We believe that entrepreneurs need to move forward towards exciting goals. That is what made them successful in the first place, and ...

Swing trading is a type of trading in which you hold positions in stocks or other investments over a period of time that can range from one day to a few weeks or more. If you are a beginner trader, this book will equip you with an understanding of where to start, how to start, what to expect from swing trading, and how you can develop your own strategy based on your personal goals. If you are a trader with some existing experience, this book will give you some insights on the author’s approach to swing trading, rules that I follow, and some strategies that I have used.

Most people think of life insurance as just a safety net for their loved ones. But what if it could be the key to accelerating your wealth while you're still alive? In Wealth Acceleration with Life Insurance, Ethan Maxwell demystifies powerful financial strategies used by the wealthy—like Infinite Banking, overfunded whole life policies, and Indexed Universal Life (IUL) plans—to show how ordinary individuals can create extraordinary financial leverage.

Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally create a gap between strategy and execution. And they show how some of the best companies in the world consistently leap ahead of their competitors.

_____________ 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 ...

The excitement of becoming an entrepreneur and starting a new business has faded. Your first dollar of revenue has been earned and quickly reinvested. Now, you are in the thick of the battle. This is where winning means making payroll for the month and losing means the bank foreclosing on your house. Maybe a professor talked you into running your own business. Or maybe you grew tired of serving in corporate America and working for underwhelming talent.

No more information dumps! Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real difference. You'll learn how to: Help the client identify what's really causing the performance problem. Determine the role (if any!) of training. Create realistic activities that help people practice what they need to do, not just show what they know. Choose the best format for each activity -- online, projected to a group, on paper, as a small-group activity, over email... Provide each activity at the best time -- in the workflow, available on demand, spaced over time... Let people pull the ...

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

With The Strategy Activation Playbook, author Aric Wood, CEO of XPLANE, teaches you how to do what he's helped organizations around the world accomplish: align and activate the people in your organization to execute your strategy and realize your vision.

The US Census Bureau reported 32,570,855 small businesses operating across the States. Allegedly, every tenth American runs their own business. But a follow-up story discloses that 76.2% of businesses that had no employees accounted for merely 4% of SMB sales. As the memory of the 2008 financial recession fades away and the stories of funded startups crossing the 1 billion dollar mark, both regular workers and college students dream about running a successful business, relieved from the boredom of their corporate job or a life spent in a cubicle while paying off debts and mortgages. "126 ...

The cloud revolution is more than a technology trend—it is a global economic transformation. From the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, organizations are shifting critical operations from physical servers to dynamic, on-demand infrastructure. This migration is unleashing new business models, unprecedented agility, and opportunities for wealth creation never before possible.