Contrary to popular belief, calculating the return on upskilling program investments is in fact possible.
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Reimagining Training to Accelerate your Advantage
The speed and effectiveness of learning increasingly drives competitive advantage. BCG U combines the expertise of world-class faculty and leading experts with technology to provide the necessary organizational learning and employee development programs to create competitive advantage. We help build powerful learning organizations quickly and at scale, so teams are ready to succeed in a rapidly changing future.
Whether it’s the evolution of digital and AI, the shifts in work models and customer expectations, or the need to address climate and sustainability issues, the pace of global change is dizzying. Employee development programs must keep up to prepare a workforce for the future.
At BCG, our global purpose is summarized in one simple statement: unlocking the potential of those who advance the world. The depth and breadth of our experience in every industry and capability uniquely positions us to offer science-based organizational development training and high-reach, scalable learning to organizations that need to pivot the scope of their capabilities in order to thrive in tomorrow’s environment.
BCG U enables organizations to upskill their talent by using the latest upskilling training programs and technology, application-focused learning approaches, and a world-class faculty. Our rich, contextualized learning offerings build capabilities at all levels of an organization—from the C-suite to the frontlines.
At BCG, our global purpose is summarized in one simple statement: unlocking the potential of those who advance the world. The depth and breadth of our experience in every industry and capability uniquely positions us to offer science-based organizational development training and high-reach, scalable learning to organizations that need to pivot the scope of their capabilities in order to thrive in tomorrow’s environment.
BCG U enables organizations to upskill their talent by using the latest upskilling training programs and technology, application-focused learning approaches, and a world-class faculty. Our rich, contextualized learning offerings build capabilities at all levels of an organization—from the C-suite to the frontlines.
BCG U’s Next-Gen Organizational Development for Impact
BCG U’s enterprise training program drives organizational outcomes and impact through three complementary offerings.
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Capability Building Solutions
Capability Building Solutions
For organizations facing large-scale transformations, BCG U’s capability and role-specific skill building programs drive business impact that’s critical to future success. They bring timely, relevant content to the most strategically important change makers across an organization—with speed and at scale. Learn more.
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Learning Strategy
Learning Strategy
BCG U’s learning strategy experts help organizations by diagnosing current strengths and weaknesses, developing a customized reskilling and upskilling training program with measurable impact and enabling a sustainable learning ecosystem for every client.
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Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching
BCG U’s executive coaching helps leaders meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world and drive transformational change—for their people, customers, investors, partners, and for society. Learn more.
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Capability Building Solutions
For organizations facing large-scale transformations, BCG U’s capability and role-specific skill building programs drive business impact that’s critical to future success. They bring timely, relevant content to the most strategically important change makers across an organization—with speed and at scale. Learn more.
Learning Strategy
BCG U’s learning strategy experts help organizations by diagnosing current strengths and weaknesses, developing a customized reskilling and upskilling training program with measurable impact and enabling a sustainable learning ecosystem for every client.
Executive Coaching
BCG U’s executive coaching helps leaders meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world and drive transformational change—for their people, customers, investors, partners, and for society. Learn more.
CAPABILITY ACCELERATORS
BCG U’s capability accelerators target transformation-critical, future-relevant skills that offer high returns on learning investment.
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GenAI Accelerator
Builds an understanding of GenAI technology and its transformative power as a force multiplier to drive business impact -
Digital + AI Accelerator
Embeds the required set of advanced data and analytic capabilities to become an AI-driven company -
Climate and Sustainability Accelerator
Translates the essentials of a climate and sustainability ambition using a business lens, providing the clarity and tools needed to embark on a climate journey -
Agile Accelerator
Ensures the success of enterprise agility transformations by holistically building agile competencies through specific skills and ways of working across an organization to unlock business impact -
Transformation Academy
Increases the likelihood of transformation success and accelerates its impact by enabling employees to drive sustained results -
Rapid and Immersive Skill Enhancement (RISE)
Offers employee development, upskilling, and reskilling for citizens or governments across a variety of digital topics, including business and digital essentials, data analytics, and digital transformation -
Growth Academy
Accelerates marketing capabilities across areas such as precision media, advocacy and branding, e-commerce, value-based segmentation, personalization, and customer journeys -
Business Foundations Accelerator
Improves skills to scope, frame, and solve complex business problems; explains the tools, frameworks, and lexicon used in daily work; and increases confidence and the ability to drive faster, deeper impact -
Frontline Academy
Generative learning experiences that equip frontline employees with customized, current expertise to effect change and capture value
Our Clients' Success with BCG U
Bringing Job Seekers Back to Work Through Digital Reskilling
Singapore’s digital-talent gap has been a key challenge for companies, often hindering the country’s ambition to be a tech hub. Together with SkillsFuture Singapore, BCG U set about shrinking that gap by launching a unique train-and-place program called Rapid and Immersive Skill Enhancement. As of early 2023, the program has upskilled more than 2,000 midcareer Singaporean professionals, enabling them to pivot their career paths into in-demand data and digital roles. The upskilling training program is on track to teach at least 8,000 more over the next two years.
Climate Activation for Deeper Organizational Enablement
A leading global insurer saw that a changing climate and a transition to a low-carbon economy would present new business risks and opportunities. The company asked BCG U to deliver a climate-activation program to drive awareness, alignment, and activation on climate change across the company. The BCG U program went beyond climate literacy to drive tangible impact on the business. It illuminated how climate change and a low-carbon economy affects the company’s business lines, sparked cross-company dialogues, and helped the insurer begin to drive change throughout the organization.
Reimagining Learning and Development in Mining
A leading global mining company was looking to conduct a holistic reset of its learning and development (L&D) function, which was widely acknowledged within the company to be falling short of needs. BCG U assessed the company’s learning ecosystem to benchmark its performance and maturity against the ecosystems of peers and to understand its strengths and weaknesses. BCG U then helped the client identify best practices and form a vision for a fully reimagined, more robust L&D function.
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The most effective way for a company to help its workforce adopt AI skills a five-step approach that includes assessing what’s needed and preparing people for change.
この1年で従業員は生成AIの効果への信頼を深めつつあります。しかし同時に、仕事を失うことへの恐れも増しているようです。企業は慎重な検討と戦略的な行動をとることで、働き手の相反する見方に対処できるようになります。
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Our Latest Thinking on Organizational Development Training
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Turning Superheroes into a Super Leadership Team
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Is Your Upskilling Program Paying Off?
Contrary to popular belief, calculating the return on upskilling program investments is in fact possible.
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Reskilling for a Rapidly Changing World
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Three Steps to Turn Your Company into a Learning Powerhouse
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Why It’s Time to Bring Learning to the C-Suite
Revolutionary tech advances, the changing paradigm of training, and the rise of the bionic company demand radical rethinking of the corporate L&D function.
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Shifting Skills, Moving Targets, and Remaking the Workforce
Ulrike Schwarz-Runer, a managing director and senior partner and BCG's general counsel, shares her reflections on the value of having a mentor, though she believes this term to be inadequate.
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Put Talent at the Top of the Sustainability Agenda
To meet ambitious climate goals, companies must rapidly reskill workers—and share the lessons they learn with others.
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