What we think

Essential advantage lies within. A few differentiating capabilities drive identity and success.

We believe passionately that essential advantage lies within and that a few differentiating capabilities drive any organization’s identity and success. We work with our clients to discover and build those strengths and capture the market opportunities where they can earn the right to win.

Thought Leadership

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Booz & Company's practice areas.

<div class="name">Standardizing the Cloud: A Call to Action<br ><span class="small-grey">by Rainer Bernnat, Wolfgang Zink, Nicolai Bieber, and Joachim Strach</span></div><div class="description">CIOs who hope to benefit from the low cost and convenience of cloud computing should pay attention to the evolving need for better, more consistent technological standards. According to a recent Booz & Company study, current internet-based computer services operate under surprisingly inconsistent, often incompatible standards.</div>

<div class="name">Maximizing the Impact of Digitization<br ><span class="small-grey">by Karim Sabbagh, Roman Friedrich, Bahjat El-Darwiche, and Milind Singh</span></div><div class="description">With information and communications technology access approaching ubiquity, policymakers are faced with the challenge of ensuring individuals, businesses, and governments are making the best possible use of networks and applications, thereby encouraging digitization that has the potential for dramatic economic, social, and political improvements.</div>

<div class="name">Creating an Organic Growth Machine<br ><span class="small-grey">by Ken Favaro, David Meer, and Samrat Sharma</span> </div><div class="description">Organic growth is far too important for companies to leave it to operating units, yet many do just that. This article in the May 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review explains why they are making a big mistake and, more important, how even the most mature companies can kick-start their organic growth engine by following four straightforward rules. More often than not, companies that follow these rules uncover opportunities that can double their underlying growth rate.</div>

<div class="name">Managing Telecom Portfolios for Sustainable Growth<br ><span class="small-grey">by Karim Sabbagh, Chady Smayra, Amr Goussous, and Nans Mathieu</span></div><div class="description">Many telecom companies can unlock value within their portfolios by analyzing their level of coherence and then assessing whether their capabilities system supports their way to play and whether all their products and services leverage these capabilities.</div>

<div class="name">From Campaigns to Capabilities: The Impact of Social Media on Marketing and Beyond<br ><span class="small-grey">by Christopher Vollmer and Karen Premo</span></div><div class="description">Booz & Company and Buddy Media have partnered together on <em>"Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media and Marketing 2011,”</em> a research study which reveals insights into how leading companies are transforming their marketing capabilities as social media plays an expanding role in advertising and branding efforts.</div>

<div class="name">Getting to Good Governance: From Policing to Orchestrating<br ><span class="small-grey">by Ramez Shehadi, Jad Bitar, Dr. Walid Tohme, and Mohamad Naamani</span></div><div class="description">As technology projects increase in complexity, public and private organizations are searching for new mechanisms to control their costs and ensure systems deliver what they need. In doing so, they should go beyond the traditional project management office and consider a strategic implementation office, which extends the scope of oversight and is thus able to prevent common pitfalls before they occur.</div>

<div class="name">Measuring Industry Digitization: Leaders and Laggards in the Digital Economy<br ><span class="small-grey">by Roman Friedrich, Matthew Le Merle, Florian Gröne, and Alex Koster</span></div><div class="description">The pace of digitization is picking up rapidly but the speed at which digitization is taking place varies a great deal from industry to industry. To gain a better understanding of the relative degree to which digitization is transforming different industries, we have created the Industry Digitization Index.</div>

<div class="name">Managing the Global Enterprise in Today's Multipolar World<br ><span class="small-grey">by Paolo Pigorini, Ashok Divakaran, David Suarez, and Ariel Fleichman</span> </div><div class="description">Rising costs are forcing the entire U.S. healthcare industry to find ways to unlock and enhance medical value by delivering higher-quality, more affordable care to empowered and engaged consumers. This Perspective outlines three models — population care, healthcare products, and focused transformation — that address the issue of reclaiming lost medical value in a comprehensive and sustainable way.</div>

Practice Areas Thought Leadership

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Featured Foresight

CEO Succession

The CEO’s first year in office is not only career-defining, but also lays the necessary groundwork for success. This year’s report, “The New CEO’s First Year,” reveals the challenges for the new class of CEOs who came into office in 2011, analyzes trends in global CEO turnover, and distills important advice from veteran CEOs. read more >

Digitization

Thanks to digitization, companies across industries are racing to migrate "analog" approaches to customers, products, services, and operating models to an always-on, real-time, and information rich marketplace. In doing so, these companies secure not only continued relevance, but also superior returns.read more >

Industry Perspectives for 2012

Our industry perspectives, written by the leadership of Booz & Company’s industry practices, examine industry-wide trends, identify key decisions leaders need to make in 2012, and discuss the capabilities that companies need to build in order to be successful in this challenging global economic environment.read more >

Capabilities-Driven Strategy

The power of coherence: A company's right to win in any market depends not just on external market positioning, and not just on internal capabilities — but on a coherent strategy that aligns them at every level.read more >

The Global Innovation 1000

Every year since 2005, Booz & Company has conducted the Global Innovation 1000 study, which investigates the relationship between how much companies spend on R&D and their overall financial performance — and every year, we reinforce the conclusion that there is no correlation between the two.read more >

Books

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company's Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium — a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.view all books >

Multimedia

Explore Booz and Company's multimedia offerings, including videos, podcasts, and toolkits. Follow our RSS feeds to receive real-time notifications as reports and whitepapers are added to this site.read more >