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How Heineken Europe Is Transforming Its Supply Chain
The brewer launched a supply chain business transformation program to reduce complexity, build new ways of working, and reduce its carbon footprint. Here’s how it succeeded.
Transformation is essential—even for companies that are doing well. BCG’s business transformation team helps clients unlock their full potential and accelerate performance and value creation in a sustainable way.
Although many business transformations deliver short-term impact, 75% fail to deliver long-term, fundamental change. Successful company transformations are marked by three critical outcomes:
These companies are three times more likely to outperform average short- and long-term total shareholder return for their sector. The 50 largest transformations that BCG worked on over a recent five-year period have delivered 15% higher TSR for those companies compared to relevant stock indices.
We partner with our clients to accelerate performance and drive value creation, using a proven methodology tailored for business transformation.
Performance and Value Acceleration. Instead of focusing solely on cost efforts, we work with clients to drive holistic transformations—ones that use all available actions, starting with re-evaluating strategic opportunities, working to increase topline results, and optimizing the balance sheet.
Accelerated Cost Transformation. BCG’s holistic approach to cost advantage efficiently and effectively transforms an organization’s business. The result is effective cost optimization that boosts performance and margins while driving reinvestment in future growth, stability, and strategy.
Business Turnaround and Restructuring. When all signs point to the need for fast and focused action, we have the experience to help companies rapidly turn around financial decline, optimize debt management and cash flow, and address operational inefficiencies, all while making the right strategic choices.
Tech-Led Business Transformation. We guide clients to use the right technology, digital, or AI levers for the situation, choosing options that will complement their existing capabilities to increase efficiencies, drive innovation, and deliver a superior customer experience.
We partner with clients to deploy an industry-leading proprietary methodology that ensures a relentless focus on value. Our methodology is based on deep experience, which has shown that to create sustained results, programs must address the what and the how of strategic transformation.
The what focuses on making the right improvements in operations and processes, including:
The how sets up a company for sustained success through:
Our business transformation consultants work closely with clients to drive strategic impact quickly, so an organization is engaged and able to make the impact stick.
We have supported thousands of large-scale business transformation programs for enterprises in a diverse array of industries around the globe. Our clients achieve measurable results, including increased revenue, reduced costs, and accelerated performance.
The brewer launched a supply chain business transformation program to reduce complexity, build new ways of working, and reduce its carbon footprint. Here’s how it succeeded.
Pandora CEO Alexander Lacik describes the three-pronged business transformation program that helped his company revive excitement about the brand and reconnect with customers—while also radically reining in costs.
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We deploy a number of proprietary tools to ensure that the how of a transformation strategy is set up for success, including:
A successful business transformation requires unparalleled transparency—from initial design through execution. Unlock value and manage complexity through every change with our portfolio and program management software.
Build new capabilities that drive transformation success with an outcome-focused, comprehensive upskilling solution developed by transformation experts, tailored to your unique goals and delivered at scale.
Our coaches—former C-suite executives with track records of successful transformations—help leadership teams shift their mindsets and behaviors, which allows them to show up differently through a change process and ultimately deliver on a transformation.
Uncover the path to high performance with our holistic organizational diagnostic. It evaluates your organization against key levers to assesses how well it is set up to perform and where the focus of the transformation should be.
Our business transformation consultants have senior-level experience leading large-scale company transformations across the globe.