Jonathan Van Wyck

Oct 27, 2023 | linkedin.com | Jonathan Van Wyck

When industrial goods companies have to reduce costs, they often hit the “easy button.” They cut travel and expenses, reduce R&D, stop hiring, and launch voluntary separations. They hit pause on strategic initiatives, even projects with a clear near-term payback. But this turns out to be a pitfall. Those actions may help a company’s quarterly earnings in the short term – but come back to haunt them later. Why? Pent up demand means after a time costs come roaring back.

Sep 13, 2023 | bcg.com | Jonathan Van Wyck |Marc Gilbert |Michael McAdoo

A half-decade of disruption that has included trade wars, the pandemic, natural disasters, severe supply bottlenecks, Brexit, the war in Ukraine, and increasingly assertive industrial policies is profoundly redrawing the map of global manufacturing for export. New BCG research underscores the magnitude of the resulting shifts.