Tech & Biz Lab
Our Tech & Biz Lab helps leaders navigate the rapidly changing technology landscape—sharing insights on how they can best adopt new technologies to reap their full potential and leave a lasting impact on organizations, individuals, and society.
We are not your traditional consultants: we are a diverse group of data scientists, engineers, and tech enthusiasts working with leading academics, external collaborators, and partners.
Our Tech & Biz Lab explores the technology horizon and shares actionable insights with leaders.
Some of our current research themes include topics such as AI competitiveness, deep tech, and AI & society.
How can companies and governments unlock the full benefits of AI to build competitive advantage?
If they’re used indiscriminately, no-code/low-code platforms for A.I. are likely to end up doing more harm than good.
Explore emerging transformational technologies beyond AI and their potential impact on businesses.
Advanced technologies will bring big changes. Which companies will be ready to capitalize?
AI can be a critical lever to both solve and heighten societal challenges. How can we ensure that it creates a positive impact?
Only when companies are able to earn a social license for AI, winning the trust of employees, customers, and society at large, will they have what is required for the sustained use of AI at scale.
Consumer preferences are rapidly evolving with the emergence of new technologies. What could the future of consumer interaction look like?
What will the next generation of digital helpers look like? BCG Henderson Institute Fellow Karen Lellouche Tordjman breaks down the two critical challenges engineers need to crack before they can usher in a new age of smart voice assistants
In the digital era, the demand for trust is skyrocketing. How can a company design a digital architecture to build trust among its stakeholders?
BCG’s AI-based Trust Index enables companies to break down stakeholder perceptions of their trustworthiness. Analyses based on the Index have yielded valuable insights about what builds, sustains, or destroys trust.
Our monthly column in Fortune shares new ideas to inspire leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society.
Incumbents in many industries are experimenting with syn-bio engagement strategies. However, they can’t rely solely on traditional buying and selling relationships because the syn-bio ecosystem in still very nascent.
Advances in syn-bio depend on incumbent companies and startups working together and leveraging each others' strengths, only then can both generate all the benefits that the science promises.
The adoption of AI in the Global South is hindered by the lack of talent, infrastructure, and local AI firms. To remain competitive, incumbents must play the role of AI "national champions", and become the prime consumers of the new technology in their home markets. By initiating AI adoption, "national champions" can sow the seeds of an AI ecosystem and catalyze talent creation.
AI’s learning capabilities can lead to innovative business opportunities, generate creative insights, and algorithms that are capable of learning from users’ or consumers’ behavior.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, A.I. forges a symbiotic relationship between an organization and its people.
As quantum computers start becoming a reality, disruption and value creation are coming to several industries from aerospace to pharmaceuticals. Across the globe, countries have been making massive investments to try to secure this next digital competitive advantage. Who will win?
Deep Tech is catalyzing groundbreaking innovations faster than ever. Having established its reputation as a problem-driven approach to tackle complex problems by combining new physical technologies with sophisticated digital technologies, it is inevitable that Deep Tech will disrupt incumbents in almost every industry.
Listen to thought-provoking conversations with authors, as we explore influential ideas on business, technology, economics, and science.
Listen to Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School discuss his new book about how AI is changing the way we think about competition, organization and business models.
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, discusses his new book, AI 2041, sharing his thinking and predictions on AI’s potential applications and explores human deillemmas which arise as a result.
The creator of the Exponential View newsletter and community published a new book on how technology impacts economies and companies, and how this force can be best harnessed.
As GPT-4 and other new models are released, leaders need to constantly assess the implications for their business.
This powerful technology has the potential to disrupt nearly every industry, promising both competitive advantage and creative destruction. Here’s how to strategize for that future.
By analyzing the syn-bio industry stack and understanding its dynamics, incumbents can develop strategies that will gain them competitive advantage.
Prompt engineering is only the beginning—it’s time to start experimenting.
As Generative AI democratizes adoption, new challenges loom for organizations.
When adopting Generative AI, don’t forget the fundamentals.
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