Invest in Russia — invest in Russian regions!
All analytics

BCG Review

Research
1 November 2017

The issue is opened with an overview article on the materials of the survey Russia 2025: From Personnel to Talents, prepared jointly by BCG, WorldSkills Russia and Global Education Futures with the support of Sberbank. At the center of the survey is the need to move from a resource economy to a knowledge economy and thus to ensure Russia’s competitiveness in the modern world. If the existing labour market structure is maintained for another 7-10 years, Russia’s lagging behind the world economic leaders risks becoming irreducible, so it is necessary to act without delay.

According to the Tretyakov Gallery experience large-scale transformations and excellent results in a very short time are real. When Z.I. Tregulova was appointed a general director in 2015, the situation was difficult both with financing, and perception of the museum. However, already in 2016 with the Aivazovsky exhibition for the first time in the history of Russian museums, the Tretyakov Gallery was included in the list of Top 10 in the World, that is, among the 10 most important art exhibition projects in the world, and the number of visitors for two years has almost doubled. To get information about how this was achieved read the interview with Z.I. Tregulova called Transformation Art. The first successful experiments in the use of robots in medicine and healthcare have been known since the 1980s, as well as innovations in surgery, but the systemic reorganisation of the medical institution from the point of view of automation is still a rare phenomenon. The advantages of such automation are obvious, but managers often linger at the start because of the lack of a clear idea of how to introduce robots. The article Towards a New Level: How to Accelerate Robotisation in Russian Health Care?" offers a number of measures that will help to introduce robits both at the level of the medical centre and at the state level. Autonomous cars have become a new area of competition in the global transport industry. By 2025, the total output of cars with autopilot systems will be about 600,000, and by 2035 21.1 million. What are the prospects for innovative automotive technologies for Russian manufacturers? Now the profitability of the automotive industry is falling and, therefore, the risk of the industry development solely by the model of the «local collector» increases. Obviously, the «local innovator» strategy, including breakthrough developments in the field of autonomous transport, would be more promising. Read more about this in the article Unmanned Vehicles on the Roads. In the comments to the article Profitability or Efficiency? The airline is looking for a balanced solution. Nicolas Boutin, BCG partner and head of the global aerospace industry expert practice, notes that Russian airlines are achieving good results in improving efficiency, but the balance between profitability and efficiency remains relevant for a number of reasons: aggravation of competition, increase in the number of connecting flights, growing demands and expectations of customers. In today’s hypercompetitive aviation industry, those companies that will manage to increase efficiency, without worsening but improving the quality of customer service, will be able to increase profits by 5-10%. This is not easy, but the results will be seen and appreciated by customers, employees, and investors.


Anlytics on the topic

All analytics
Research
2 July 2020
COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint

The report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) contains a comparative analysis of COVID-19 and pandemic influenza, detailing their similarities and differences, and outlines three possible pandemic scenarios for COVID-19.

Research
23 March 2018
Healthcare: Necessary Responses to Current Challenges

Russia’s success in the future depends largely on the dynamics of human capital. Health and education are two main human capital issues. Leadership in the global economy will increasingly be determined by the country’s competitiveness in the global markets of educational and medical technologies and services. In this connection, in the industry whose orientation is limited primarily to the detection and treatment of diseases, healthcare should become an integrated interdisciplinary system that can not only more effectively solve medical and social problems, but also be one of the main drivers of the growth of the Russian economy.

Research
29 April 2020
Promising areas of commercial application of robots

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and the Russian Association of Robotics (RAR) present a joint study on promising areas of commercial application of robots. The publication contains a collection of case studies of robotic systems which are either operating or under development in various industries.

Articles
1 November 2019
Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Economy

The article in the framework of the national project «Digital Economy» analyzes the development trends and features of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Russia. The advantages of this sphere of economic activity in comparison with the use of other «breakthrough» technologies are considered. Attention is focused on the features of the third wave of business process transformation associated with adaptive business processes, which allow, using AI, to radically transform a business by processing big data in real time instead of performing a predetermined sequence of steps.