When you optimize value creation, you maximize not only growth, but also strategy. BCG’s ValueScience® Center applies cutting-edge analytics to provide the insights that spark and propel competitive advantage.
These insights help shape and improve decision making and corporate strategy. By understanding how different plans and actions impact value creation, companies can zero in on the right choices, in everything from acquisitions to business models. BCG’s ValueScience® Center is the “analytical engine” behind our value creation consulting work. Together with clients, we develop and unleash advanced analytics to reveal the best path forward. By delivering rapid and targeted value creation analysis, we help companies deliver results.
BCG’s ValueScience® Center helps clients optimize future value creation through effective capital allocation and financial policies.
We take a bionic approach, combining the best of human and technical capabilities. That means leveraging proprietary tools and techniques, in areas like corporate performance analytics, investment analysis analytics, and merger modeling analytics. But just as importantly, it means developing and empowering world-class talent. Our ValueScience® Center consultants aren’t drawn from other BCG teams; they are fulltime experts in value creation analysis.
This approach lets us provide value creation insights quickly through highly automated solutions while tailoring those insights to a client’s specific circumstances and needs. It also gives us flexibility. We employ our tools and experts across the full range of valuation use cases: M&A target assessment, industry and client valuation and benchmarking, strategic plans and alternatives, investor analysis, and portfolio value audit and teardown, to name just a few.
Among our key solutions:
SmartMultiple®
A proprietary valuation technique that combines regression analysis with investor segmentation to understand the interplay and influence of key variables and explain valuation differences among companies in a given sector. These customized SmartMultiple® equations provide valuable insights to guide management decisions in business strategy, financial policy, and investor communication.
ValueX Health Check
A benchmarking tool that analyzes company performance data--including growth, profitability, capital allocation, cash generation, and total shareholder return—to generate a 360-degree perspective on fundamental performance. Companies can see where they stand, and crucially, how they compare with competitors.
iTSR Modeling
A value creation analysis that models how different decisions and strategies will impact future total shareholder return. Companies can simulate multiple scenarios to understand the potential wins and pitfalls of each option—and identify the optimal approach.
Activist Screening
An assessment tool that looks at multiple dimensions—including value creation, expense management, and financial policy and capital allocation—to estimate the likelihood that a company will be targeted by activist investors.
Financial Data Portal (FDP)
A trove of company performance data that enables BCG teams to generate on-demand analysis and peer group comparisons. Covering more than 60,000 public companies, FDP includes financial and forecast data, BCG-specific metrics, and other data to fuel industry analytics, valuation insights, and investment analysis analytics.
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ValueScience® Center consultants are embedded in BCG case teams across industries—and across the globe. Here are some of our experts.
Knowledge Expert, Team Manager
Munich
