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A MESSAGE FROM CHRISTOPH SCHWEIZER
The job of CEO is a singular privilege to shape a company, industry, and the world at large. The CEO’s agenda is a formidable one: generating profitable growth, managing costs, navigating geopolitics, harnessing AI, empowering talent, advancing sustainability. Navigating the role demands deep insight to help make sense of the world, solve challenges, and excel.
EUROPE'S TRANSFORMATION IMPERATIVE
Rising costs and low consumer confidence are ratcheting up the heat on Europe’s CEOs. More than 20% of European companies are under pressure to transform—a 7-percentage-point increase over last year. Some 7% of these companies face an even greater imperative to restructure their operations and balance sheet, according to the latest readings from the BCG Transform and Special Situations (TSS) Index. The stress on smaller firms is especially acute.
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Some two thirds of transformation efforts fail. Here’s how CEOs can improve their odds.
Moving past notions of the strong, invincible leader can be daunting. Here’s how CEOs can overcome their fears and be vulnerable in a healthy way.
The international order hasn’t been this uncertain in decades. CEOs must approach geopolitical risk with the same urgency as digitization, AI, and the climate crisis.
CEO growth is professional and personal. Here’s how you can succeed at both.
The CEO’s role will evolve into something far different: chief ecosystem orchestrator. Responsibilities and the skills required to successfully lead will shift significantly. BCG’s Judith Wallenstein explains how these CEOs of the future could navigate the blurred boundaries among companies, industries, and nations.
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CBRE's CEO Bob Sulentic and BCG's Jeff Hill discuss strategies for clearing the clutter out of your day.
Energy is a two-way current that travels throughout an organization. Starting with the CEO, it reaches all the way to the frontline—and beyond.
The initial 100 days are a time for boldness and clarity—a time when CEOs can express the purest form of their vision for the company.
Do tough times call for tough leaders? BCG’s Joe Davis says that CEOs must be empathetic, vulnerable, and authentic even as they are tough. Society expects it.
Transformative technologies such as generative AI are rapidly changing the way companies do business. As the gulf widens between early winners and hesitant observers, here’s how you can leverage innovative technologies strategically, responsibly, and humanly.
1,400人以上の経営層を対象としたBCGの調査で、生成AIが急速にビジネスのあり方を変えつつあることが明らかになりました。企業はどのようにして、生成AIの可能性を利益に変えているのでしょうか。
Urgent global challenges are accelerating the development of a raft of breakthrough technologies that could fundamentally transform industries. These five should be on the CEO’s radar.
Today’s large language models are the just start of the GenAI revolution. Companies need to prepare for what’s coming next: autonomous agents that work independently to achieve an assigned goal.
BCG’s Vladimir Lukic considers what’s ahead when companies play with bots in an innovation sandbox.
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BCGは、コンサルティング業務における生成AIの活用を検証する最新の実験を行いました。それによると、人間は生成AIが大きく価値貢献できる分野では不信感を抱き、逆に生成AIに適性がない分野では期待を寄せすぎているようです。
Despite the generative AI hype, more than 50% of executives are deeply worried about incorporating it into their operations and so discourage its adoption.
Everyone from customers to investors wants AI done right. CEOs who take the lead in implementing Responsible AI can better manage the technology’s many risks.
Any business that has set sustainability goals, produces a physical product, or supports a business that produces a physical product will need to incorporate one or more deep technologies.
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A CEO’s strategy impacts the next generation of leaders and talent. Companies with a systematic approach to activate leaders see transformation success rates that are three times higher than those of their competitors that activate leaders. Here’s how you can advance a leadership and talent culture that helps your company keep winning long past your tenure.
CEOs have become more cautious and strategic about taking public stands on politically charged issues. But upcoming elections will put this measured approach to the test.
The same qualities that propel managers into the top ranks can undermine a leadership team’s performance. An enterprise-first mindset can help make the team unbeatable.
By 2030, the best CIO might be a CIB: a chief intelligence bot. And the human CEO might be bolstered by a swarm of CEO bots. BCG’s Mickey McManus envisions a future where top leaders share the corner office with AI—blending logic with human intuition.
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Retention is a complex issue unique to each company, but research suggests a universal solution: doubling down on employee joy.
BCG’s Debbie Lovich imagines a world where companies must wow workers—or risk losing essential talent (and profits) to competitors.
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When CEOs give employees more agency, they narrow “change distance” and greatly improve the chances of a transformation’s success.
BCG’s Julia Dhar imagines a future in which AI takes over multiple aspects of middle management.
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Many people believe burnout is driven by excessive work demands. In fact, it’s driven by a specific type of demand–work that requires too much collaboration between individuals or teams of employees.
企業のカルチャーを明確に定義することは難しいですが、強固なイノベーションカルチャーを構築している企業は優れたイノベーターとなる可能性が60％高いことがわかりました。
Your company’s growth, resilience, and competitiveness depend on how strategically you anticipate, prepare for, and respond to both challenges and opportunities. Here’s how you can create a clear, forward-thinking strategy and initiate bold, nimble moves to drive growth and carve a commanding position in the business landscape.
Most company efforts to reduce expenses fail. Four challenges block the way: two deal with which costs get cut and two are related to how value is delivered.
BCGは100以上の国と主要な貿易圏の自由貿易協定を分析し、各国政府の貿易への関与度を複数の尺度で比較するツール「トレードエンゲージメント・インデックス」を開発しました。
Our third CO2 AI + BCG Carbon Emissions Survey reveals that collaboration, product-level measurement, and digital technology are the keys to progress in emissions reduction.
Scale isn’t dead. But it’s critical to find the right balance between scale and fractal principles—and to do it before your competitors do.
Business strategy is usually born of a highly rational process, grounded in facts and analysis. Storytelling, often associated with fiction and entertainment, may seem like the antithesis of strategy. But the two are not incompatible.
The assumption that business and politics can and even should be kept separate is no longer realistic, the authors write, and messaging from the corporate affairs department is insufficient to defuse political issues when they arise.
In a volatile, uncertain world, successful strategies are those conceived as portfolios of options rather than as roadmaps.
A successful CEO agenda anticipates and prepares for a future that may look very different from today. Stay ahead of the curve with two of BCG’s podcasts: First, Imagine This..., a podcast for CEOs that imagines where the next big disruptions might emerge and explores tangible actions CEOs can take now to get ready. Secondly, CEO Digest, which bridges human insights with AI efficiency to deliver big impact in a short podcast for busy CEOs.
Explore CEO preparedness for future disruptions with Imagine This... by BCG, a podcast that helps CEOs consider possible futures for our world—and their businesses.
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