The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy

I'm a grad student with IT background and want to become a management consultant or a CEO. This is not a coffe-table book. The best is to have a business encyclopedia by the hand when reading it (i recommend Business: The ultimate resource,2nd). For more info about table of contents click on the book picture. The essays are short (cca 2 pages), but extremely consciously and well written. I think, no former business knowledge is necessary: anybody can pick up this book, who is interested in business, likes to think deeply and have persistence (you'll need it to get through the book). After reading the book, the reader will have an superb overview of business concepts, strategy, leadership -- i dare to say, that s/he will have all the knowledge a big CEO needs to have.

This collection of publications is incredibly interesting to the business enthusiast. Even Bruce Henderson's publications from the 1970's remain thought-provoking and -transforming today. This is a dense read. I cannot read very much at one time. However it is grouped by subject, so you can jump around different chapters without consequence.

This is an outstanding book on various ideas on strategy. The book provides some classical and new insights, concepts, tools and perspectives for effective strategy formulation and implementation. The Boston Consulting Group has been responsible for a number of major management consulting innovations and concepts, such as "time-based competition," "deconstruction," and "capability-driven competitive strategies" and highlighting the importance of competitive advantage. Today BCG is among the largest and most profitable management consulting companies in the world. It is regarded as one of the premier management consulting firms. The book reeks of the outstanding ideas developed by this iconic consulting firm which the company executive and students of strategy will find very useful and perceptive. The book, among other things, shows how to analyse a firm in the marketplace, formulate and execute an effective strategy, getting people excited about the strategy, how to use strategy to take advantage of opportunities, among other informative ideas. I strongly recommend people to read this high-quality book.

This book isn't for the faint of heart. It begins with very dense writing but if you can follow it you will gain valuable insight into business strategy. The later chapters are easier to follow.

Wow, this is a portable MBA course. The history and evolvng strategies from the 1970's forward are insightful and inspiring some are cautionary. I wish this was available twenty years ago.