To improve innovation, defense ministries must confront a number of issues that pose outsized constraints but are not fully understood, appreciated, or addressed.
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How BCG Helps Transform Public Sector Organizations
BCG’s public sector consultants support governments around the world by bringing together our insights and capabilities from the private sector and from decades of experience supporting public sector clients. Our government consulting teams have completed more than a thousand public sector consulting projects in the past five years. We also founded, and continue to support, the independent Centre for Public Impact; a learning partner for governments, public servants, and those leading the charge to reimagine government so that it works for everyone.
- Public sector transformations equip organizations with the right delivery models to realize their vision and achieve stakeholder buy-in, as well as the communication strategies necessary to support the transformation journey. Our framework for transformation in the public sector focuses on process, progress, transparency, and people.
- Embracing new technologies such as AI and blockchain is only part of successful digital transformation in the public sector. Changes to culture, organization structures, capabilities, governance, and workflows are also critical to long-term success. BCG’s Center for Digital Government can assess organizations’ digital maturity and identify opportunities to enhance public sector digital strategy.
- Talent is one of government’s greatest assets, particularly in the digital age. BCG works with public sector clients to develop world-class people and organizational capabilities, build agile organizations, support leadership development, manage change, and undertake HR transformations.
- At all levels, public sector institutions can do more with less. We help optimize cost and productivity, manage costs, deliver higher quality through lean approaches, and professionalize the procurement function. BCG’s market-informed design and sourcing framework (MIDAS) is one tool that improves public sector procurement and creates greater value.
Our Client Success in Public Sector Strategy
A large government agency needed to change its business processes to become more efficient. Over the course of eight months, BCG designed and implemented a new operating model for several of the agency’s business lines and BCG coached the organization’s senior leaders to drive change. The transformation achieved a 15% increase in productivity.
Given continued economic growth and the need to be adaptive and agile, a government treasury agency in Asia sought to transform its organization and operations. Using a BCG framework for change, the agency created a fiscal policy office to enforce discipline across the government, increased process efficiency, and streamlined overlaps across functions.
To make the world a safer place, leaders from government and industry must understand potent forces at work. They must define and advance common security goals, international partnerships, and defense policy to benefit societies around the globe. Cross-border cooperation on matters of
defense and security is vital for enabling leaders to advance global defense initiatives.
BCG’s partnership with the Munich Security Conference connects one of the world’s top management consulting firms with the world's best independent forum for high-level defense policy experts and decision makers to exchange insights on transnational security and foreign policy. To support the MSC’s mission, BCG is sharing our insights and expertise, including our latest thought leadership on four pressing international defense and transnational security topics.
BCG’s partnership with the Munich Security Conference connects one of the world’s top management consulting firms with the world's best independent forum for high-level defense policy experts and decision makers to exchange insights on transnational security and foreign policy. To support the MSC’s mission, BCG is sharing our insights and expertise, including our latest thought leadership on four pressing international defense and transnational security topics.
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