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Perspectives on Experience. Boston Consulting Group, Boston, Mass., 1968. 

Fig. 4 Average number of patients required for new drug applications from 1977-80 to 1994-95. (From Boston Consulting Group, 1993, and Ref. 56.)...

Siemens Medical Solutions 1995. Analysis result of a Boston Consulting Group Study. Unpublished report. 

In Chapter 1, we discussed historic product innovations, both motivated by external market-pull and by internal technology-push motivations. Figure 12.1 shows a quadrant that was popularized by the Boston Consulting Group as the stars and dogs chart, and later popularized by Donald Stokes as Pasteur s quadrant. The horizontal axis shows the strength of external market-pull, and the vertical axis shows the level of... 

The Boston Consulting Group. 2006. Economic assessment of used nuclear fuel management in the United States. July 2006. This report was prepared for AREVA. http // www.bcg.com/publications/files/2116202EconomicAssessmentReport24Jul0SR.pdf. 

A. Flanagan, M. Steiner, Boston Consulting Group Report ... 

Using a different method but raw data also supplied by the industry. The Boston Consulting Group calculated a cost extraordinarily close to DiMasi s 880 million. As Peter Tollman, vice president of the firm s biopharmaceutical... 

Eventually, this should make producing a new drug a lot faster and more efficient. All told. The Boston Consulting Group estimated that the new technology s greater produc-... 

Allan, Gerald B., "A Note on the Boston Consulting Group Concept of Competitive Analysis and Corporate Strategy, Intercollegiate Case Clearing House 9-175-175, Boston, MA, 1975. 

Bains, http //www.bain.com/bainweb/home.asp Boston Consultancy Group http //www.bcg.com/... 

Boston Consultancy Group. The gentle art of licensing. (2004) Rising to the productivity challenge. (2004). 

Henderson B (1974) The experience curve - reviewed (part IV) price stability. Perspectives. The Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved from http //www.bcg. com/documents/filel3904.pdf. Accessed 24 Mar 2007... 

However, many companies cannot pick and choose when they must implement change. David Ritter, of the Boston Consulting Group encourages IT managers to be prepared for the call to implement new systems. His 12-step process, summarized below, specifically addresses processes and systems for material acquisition that are an important supply chain element. 

Implementation time varied quite a bit between firms. According to Mabert et. al [52], 34% of implementations took less than a year, 45% of implementations took 1 to 2 years, 12% of implementations took 2 to 3 years, and 9% of implementations took more than 3 years. In addition, it was estimated that the breakeven point occurred on average 40 months after implementation completion. However, a survey of executives by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) [15] showed that relatively few companies achieved significant value. In fact, they found ... 

Boston Consulting Group, Getting Value from Enterprise Initiatives A Survey of Executives , BCG Report, www.gcg.com, March 2000. 

A company must identify specific ways to differentiate its products and thus obtain competitive advantage, ffowever, the number of differentiation opportunities varies by industry type. The Boston Consulting Group has distinguished four types of industry based on the number of potential competitive advantages and their size (Figure 4.2). 

No one can be sure exactly how the US political environment will unfold with respect to healthcare over the next few years, but it is likely to feature continuing support for generics and for formidaries that impact the profits of innovator companies. However, according to an October 2008 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysis, the Obama administration may cause the US industry a number of difficulties (62). 

A. Dinger, R. Martin, X. Mosquet, M. Rabl, D. Rizoulis, M. Russo, G. Sticher, Batteries for Electric Vehicles Challenges, Opportunities, and the Oudook to 2020, The Boston Consulting Group, Available from http //www.bcg.com/documents/file36615.pdf (accessed 11.12.10). 

In mid-2006, a report by the Boston Consulting Group (Peters et al., 2006) for AREVA and based on proprietary AREVA information showed that recycling used fuel in the United States using the COEX aqueous process would be economically competitive with direct disposal of used fuel. A 12 billion, 2500 t yr plant was considered, with total capital expenditure of 16 billion for all related aspects. This would have the benefit of greatly reducing demand on space of a repository with a capacity of 70,000 MTHM. 

The portfolio analysis is a weU-known strategic management concept developed by the Boston Consulting Group. Herewith the company can assess which product segments exist and how to balance the product portfolio and subsequently the distribution of financial resources. 

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