Philip Evans

Philip Evans is a Senior Advisor at The Boston Consulting Group and a member of BCG. He founded BCG’s media and internet sectors and has done consulting work with corporations around the world in the consumer goods, healthcare, financial services, media, retail, and high-tech industries. He has also advised governments on military organization, national security, economic development, and digital policy.

Philip’s professional focus is on technology and business strategy. He has advised clients on community-centric marketing, leveraging user-generated content, open collaboration architecture and innovation, network-based strategy, infrastructure economics, big data, privacy, and the deconstruction of value chains.

He is the author of many publications, including four Harvard Business Review articles. One of them, “Strategy and the New Information Economy,” won a McKinsey Prize, which is awarded annually for the best contributions to the Review. Blown to Bits, Philip’s book on the new information economy (co-authored with Tom Wurster of BCG), was the world’s best-selling book on technology and strategy in 2000.

Philip is a frequent speaker on technology and strategy at industrial, corporate, and academic conferences and has given keynote addresses at conferences convened by Bill Gates, Michael Milken, and the World Economic Forum. He has addressed closed-door sessions of the world’s telecom regulators in Geneva, privacy authorities in Uruguay and the Pentagon’s cabinet-level Supreme Executive Council. His TED talk has been viewed more than a million times.

He contributed to an online course on Digital Transformation. The course, developed by BCG in partnership with the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Coursera, allows students to examine the pace of digital change and the imperative it creates for businesses.

He was designated by Walter Kiechel as one of the 15 “Lords of Strategy” in Kiechel’s book of that title.

Philip is a member of the British-American Committee and the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.