Inclusive Advantage

Organizations can thrive when they develop inclusive strategies that drive both business advantage and societal impact. By thoughtfully building inclusive workplaces, delivering products and services that meet a diverse set of customer needs, and being positive forces in their local economies, organizations can drive enhanced profits and sustainable business advantage.

Diversity & Inclusion
When organizations focus on diversity and inclusion, their efforts often center on the employee experience alone. However, there are inclusive impact opportunities across the value chain throughout a firm’s  customer offers, product development, innovation agenda, and supply chain. BCG works alongside our clients to create Inclusive Advantage across industries and functional capabilities. Our proven approach can help organizations build profitable, scalable solutions that drive advantage and impact.

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Our Approach to Inclusive Advantage

Many organizations face a world of talent shortage -- building more inclusive organizations -- which benefit all employees -- is often crucial to building a stable, superior workforce. With the diversity in many societies increasing, the opportunity to find new markets in serving the underserved. BCG helps organizations rethink and broaden their strategy to create lasting advantage, profitable solutions and societal impact.

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  • Build fair and inclusive supply chains via diverse supplier programs, supplier engagement and human/labor rights tools
  • Personalizing the employee value proposition for frontline workforces to improve talent access and productivity in a way that better serves individual needs
  • Reach new customers, open new markets, innovate business models to drive growth while addressing market inefficiencies and underserved segments in key sectors

Our Client Work in Inclusive Advantage

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Enabling a Socially Transformative Business. We partnered with a global biopharmaceutical company to help make all its current and future patent-protected medicines and vaccines in the US or EU available on a not-for-profit basis to 45 lower-income countries. Leveraging BCG's expertise in portfolio development, regulatory pathways, supply chain platforms, and education for health care practitioners, the company launched an access program that will bring life-saving drugs and vaccines to 1.2 billion people. 
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Leveraging Data to Drive Inclusive Advantage. We partnered with a Latin American telco company to analyze and leverage quantitative and qualitative data for innovation hackathons. Through these hackathons, the organization was able to design programs that truly elevated its strategy through more comprehensive coverage to improve workforce outcomes.
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Building a Strategy to Support People with Disabilities. We partnered with a Middle Eastern government to develop a holistic strategy for supporting its residents with disabilities. Grounded in global best practices, the strategy aims to improve a range of outcomes including a stronger workforce, improved health and education and better social care with lower costs.

The Center for Inclusive Advantage

We work alongside organizations to navigate evolving business landscapes by embedding emerging growth opportunities into their strategies

Meet Our Inclusive Advantage Consulting Leaders

Our consulting team focused on Inclusive Advantage partners with the private and public sector to create scalable solutions embedded in core business that create societal impact. These are our global leaders on the topic.

Managing Director & Partner

Gabrielle Novacek

Managing Director & Partner
Chicago

Managing Director & Partner

Kedra Newsom Reeves

Managing Director & Partner
Chicago

Managing Director & Partner

Roshni Rathi

Managing Director & Partner
Mumbai - Nariman Point

Managing Director & Partner

Zineb Sqalli

Managing Director & Partner
Casablanca

Managing Director & Partner, Chief Diversity Officer

Nadjia Yousif

Managing Director & Partner, Chief Diversity Officer
London

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Dan Belz

Managing Director & Partner
Chicago

Our Insights on Inclusive Advantage

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