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Shaking Up the Factory Floor with Digital and AI
Realizing value at scale requires a sharp focus on people and processes, even more so than on the technology backbone and algorithms.
Our Latest Thinking on Industrial Goods
Widespread digitization has only just begun and industrial product makers and service providers are already feeling the pressure to innovate to stay ahead. Explore BCG’s latest thought leadership on industrial goods for insight into the challenges the sector is facing and how to overcome them.
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Artificial Intelligence, Digital, and Tech
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Converging IT and OT Will Boost Value in Industrial Tech
Recent technology developments, most notably rapid AI advances, are accelerating the convergence of IT and OT, unlocking troves of industrial data to improve productivity, quality, and availability.
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GenAI Can’t Scale Without Responsible AI
GenAI agents need to handle tasks responsibly, accurately, and swiftly in multiple languages, addressing potentially millions of specifications across hundreds of thousands of products.
Future of Process Industries
We offer a wealth of thought leadership, insights, and interviews to help you navigate the new reality in basic and industrial materials.
Climate Change and Sustainability
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Needs a Better Yardstick
Investment in sustainable agriculture will be key in order for farmers to keep up with rising global food demand.
Leading the Charge in Aluminum Recycling and Circularity
BCG's, Øyvind Berle, and Hydro's, Bjørn Kjetil Mauritzen, discuss how Hydro is revolutionizing aluminum recycling and driving the sustainability agenda to create value for customers—and the planet.
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Circularity’s Time Has Come
Each year, we throw away nearly $200 billion of material that could be recycled. But companies can flip the script.
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Reducing Costs and Carbon in Manufacturing Networks
Optimizing networks requires balancing five key objectives that address traditional issues of cost, service, and growth as well as a new focus on sustainability and resilience.
Cost Management and Transformation
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A New Approach to Cost—and Growth—in Process Industries
Costs are threatening the ability of process companies to take advantage of both organic and inorganic growth opportunities because of expanding financial constraints.
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Productivity Pays Off in the Process Industries
BCG's Cory Kaplin explores the role that behavior, culture, and productivity play in helping companies achieve their cost and growth ambitions.
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Space Services Are the Next Frontier for Industrial Companies
Integrating today’s advanced space services, including satellite communications and Earth observation, is taking industrials to new levels of growth and profitability.