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.

Most sales books teach tactics. This one teaches judgment. In Culture Beats Strategy, Christopher E. Fleming studies the companies that endured, and some that collapsed, to uncover what actually drives lasting success in the marketplace. From Ron Jon Surf Shop to Raising Cane’s. From Buc-ee’s to Bank of America. From Crazy Eddie’s rise to its collapse. Each story reveals a simple but powerful truth. This truth is strategy looks impressive on paper, but culture determines whether it ever works in the real world.

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.

Unlock the future of your career with AI Consulting Strategy, where the realms of artificial intelligence and business converge. Transform your understanding of AI as more than technology—view it as a vehicle for innovation, global change, and strategic growth. For those aspiring to harness the power of AI, this comprehensive guide illuminates strategies to transition from traditional consulting to future-ready AI practices. Experience the world where AI transformations redefine success and boost market competitiveness globally. You'll discover a book rich with insights that address the ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI projects rarely fail because an organization lacks access to technology. They fail when teams start with a tool instead of the problem, overlook the realities of their data and workflows, or cannot show whether the investment made a difference. AI Consulting Mastery offers a practical path for turning interest in AI into clear, measurable business initiatives. Start by uncovering what a client truly needs. Learn to look beyond requests for “AI” and identify the workflow, decision, or customer experience where improvement matters. Establish a meaningful baseline, examine whether a ...

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. 

You have spent years mastering marketing. You have built brands, led teams, driven revenue, and sat in boardrooms where your insight shaped the strategy. Now a question is forming that you cannot ignore: What if you did all of that — on your own terms? The fractional economy is no longer a niche experiment. It is a structural shift in how the world's most sophisticated companies access executive leadership. Demand for fractional CMOs has grown 68% year over year. The global fractional executive market has crossed $5.7 billion. And the marketing executives who understand how to position, ...

Corporate Governance in 100 Minutes, 2nd edition Long distance for all is out! Our time is characterised by speed, speediness and breathtaking progress. In-depth knowledge is increasingly reserved for specialists. The number of complex texts on the subject of corporate governance is overwhelming. This book is different: with 100 pages, it is condensed to the point and written in an extremely accessible way. It is aimed at interested young people, students of all fields of study, people in practice, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to keep an eye on the big points. Written by an author who...

A concise, high-impact manifesto for consultants and strategists navigating the age of AI. Consulting is facing a quiet but drastic crisis. For decades, its advantage was built on scarce knowledge: access to information, structured analysis, frameworks, benchmarks, polished decks, and boardroom recommendations. Generative AI has collapsed that scarcity. AI can now analyze markets, structure problems, benchmark competitors, draft strategic options, and produce convincing recommendations faster than any strategist. The old consulting toolkit has become replicable. But AI cannot create meaning...

_____________ 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 ...

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.

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.

The complete four-volume operational curriculum to master personal financial architecture, break free from corporate tech burnout, productize your specialized engineering expertise, and build a high-yielding independent B2B consulting and software asset empire. Most senior software engineers, systems developers, and database architects eventually hit an invisible operational ceiling. They climb the corporate tech ladder only to find themselves trapped in the golden handcuff paradox—spending their weeks sitting through agonizing cross-departmental alignment loops, navigating reorg politics...

Exploring and explaining more than 80 of the world's most important theories and big ideas about trade, commerce, and management, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the world of business past and present. A perfect primer on the fundamental tenets of the subject, The Business Book sheds...

Transform Your Business from a Demanding Job into a Wealth-Generating Asset You started your business to create freedom, but somewhere along the way, you became its prisoner. Despite impressive revenue and years of hard work, you're working more hours than ever, feeling financially stressed, and watching your business consume your life instead of serving it. Break Free from the Hustler's Trap Most business owners are caught in what author calls the "hustler's trap"—believing that working harder, longer, and more intensively will eventually create the freedom they seek. This book reveals ...

FEW PRACTICAL BOOKS for entrepreneurs reveal what it personally feels like to launch a startup, become a CEO, or rebound when plans go awry. Press Go: Lessons Earned by a Serial Entrepreneur demystifies the entrepreneurial leadership journey in a step-by-step guide to launching, scaling, and navigating the path to building a truly special company.

The Flat Fee Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Break Free from Billable Hour Burnout Build a More Profitable, Predictable, and Client-Centered Practice—Starting Today Are you tired of trading hours for dollars? Frustrated by unpredictable income, client friction, or the constant pressure to track every minute? You are not alone and there is a better way. In The Flat Fee Playbook, bestselling author, attorney, and renowned practice-building expert Susan Guthrie guides legal and dispute resolution professionals through a proven, practical framework for moving away from the billable hour and...

Stop selling your manual coding labor. Decouple your expertise from the clock, escape the fractional CTO trap, and build high-margin technical advisory retainers. Most senior software engineers, systems architects, and database developers eventually hit an invisible income wall. Even after escaping full-time employment to consult independently, they accidentally recreate their old jobs—spending forty hours a week manually configuring servers, reviewing lines of code, and fighting technical fires. Traditional freelance advice tells you to increase your hourly rate or scale up an agency. ...