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BCG Matrix is useless!

	          		Totally useless (as a contemporary business tool).
				      
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						            	obaid ur rehman
												
				                marketing management

													different example related to product in BCG

						            	Ronnie
												
				                BCG Matrix is Basic Level

													This model is for basic elementary level of Business School. We can not practice it in the real life business situation". Too bad. :(.
				                
						            	Nitish
												
				                BCG Matrix is useless!

													BCG has been widely  used as a quick and dirty analysis tool. Cannot be dubbed as useless. It is much like saying "Vaccume tubes is useless"; Vaccume tubes gave way to today's VLSI technology.
				                
						            	Robin
												
				                BCG Matrix is Useful

													How could you say that? There are some limitations as all theory have. But it is a great analytical tool anyway.
				                
						            	Nabanil Debdas
												
				                BCG Matrix Critique

													The BCG matrix can be 20% effective for any business. Business never runs on 2-dimensional fig-relative market share and market growth rate.
				                
						            	Danny Vizueta
Ecuador
												
				                BCG Model Very Limited

													Excellent theory, but very limited in the real business world, if you are a medium or small company in the market that you are in, in spite that your products or business units have good performance, the results are going to be useless.
				                
						            	Botond Szalma
Netherlands
												
				                BCG Matrix - Use More Criteria for Assessing Market Attractiveness!

													I agree that the BCG matrix is simplistic in it's  (...)
				                
						            	Hamid Rezaei
Student (MBA), Iran
												
				                BCG Matrix Critique is Too Strong

													BCG is a flexible method rather than a merely busi (...)
				                
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