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Thought Leadership

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<div class="name">Measuring Industry Digitization: Leaders and Laggards in the Digital Economy<br ><span class="small-grey">by Roman Friedrich, Matthew Le Merle, Florian Gröne, Alex Koster</span></div><div class="description">The pace of digitization is picking up rapidly but the speed at which digitization is taking place varies a great deal from industry to industry. To gain a better understanding of the relative degree to which digitization is transforming different industries, we have created the Industry Digitization Index.</div>

<div class="name">Managing the Global Enterprise in Today's Multipolar World<br ><span class="small-grey">by Paolo Pigorini, Ashok Divakaran, David Suarez, Ariel Fleichman</span> </div><div class="description">Rising costs are forcing the entire U.S. healthcare industry to find ways to unlock and enhance medical value by delivering higher-quality, more affordable care to empowered and engaged consumers. This Perspective outlines three models — population care, healthcare products, and focused transformation — that address the issue of reclaiming lost medical value in a comprehensive and sustainable way.</div>

<div class="name">Sourcing Excellence: The Key to Profitability in Capital Projects<br ><span class="small-grey">by Detlef Schwarting, Matt McKenna, Mark Uffhausen, Paul Yates</span> </div><div class="description">Companies that excel in directing large capital projects can be richly rewarded. Yet achieving this level of success requires adroit management and execution of the sourcing function. This Perspective discusses the critical set of capabilities in eight facets of capital projects that companies need to achieve sourcing excellence.</div>

<div class="name">Value Shifts in the Telecom, Media, and Technology Industries<br ><span class="small-grey">by Pierre Péladeau, Roman Friedrich, Timo Benzin, Frédéric Sarrat</span></div><div class="description">This global research study provides a detailed, data-driven analysis of the winners and losers in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries over the past five years. It examines the primary sources of revenue in each of the industry’s five sectors — network operations, hardware, IT services and software, content, and intermediation — and considers how players in each sector are attempting to move into adjacent sectors in search of growth.</div>

<div class="name">Value Creation Tutorial: What Private Equity Has to Teach Public Companies<br ><span class="small-grey">by Vinay Couto, Ashok Divakaran, Harry Hawkes, Deniz Caglar</span></div><div class="description">Certain companies are singularly adept at adapting their business to create and sustain value over time, but most are not. It’s here that the example of top-tier private equity (PE) firms can be illuminating and useful. In this Perspective we explore seven private equity lessons that public companies can apply or adapt.</div>

Practice Areas Thought Leadership

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Featured Foresight

Industry Perspectives for 2012

Our industry perspectives, written by the leadership of Booz & Company’s industry practices, examine industry-wide trends, identify key decisions leaders need to make in 2012, and discuss the capabilities that companies need to build in order to be successful in this challenging global economic environment.read more >

Capabilities-Driven Strategy

The power of coherence: A company's right to win in any market depends not just on external market positioning, and not just on internal capabilities — but on a coherent strategy that aligns them at every level.read more >

The Global Innovation 1000

Every year since 2005, Booz & Company has conducted the Global Innovation 1000 study, which investigates the relationship between how much companies spend on R&D and their overall financial performance — and every year, we reinforce the conclusion that there is no correlation between the two.read more >

CEO Succession

Every year, Booz & Company takes an intensive look at CEO turnover among the world’s top 2,500 public companies. Our research now reaches back to 2000, giving us over a decade of perspective on the tenure and job functions of these global business leaders.read more >

Organizational DNA

Find out in five minutes if your organization has the right stuff by diagnosing its DNA. Is it Passive-Aggressive, Fits-and-Starts, Outgrown, Overmanaged, Just-in-Time, Military Precision, or Resilient? Once you know, you can keep what’s good, fix what’s wrong, and unlock great performance.read more >

Books

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company's Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium — a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.view all books >

Multimedia

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