Remarks on Boston Consulting Group Method (BCG)

The situational plan of an enterprise in the market can be determined by means of the BCG method. The analysis consists in graphical presentation of the spatial distribution of the enterprise activity conditions. The presentation is made in two dimensional spaces in which horizontal axis represents the relative participation of the strategic units in the market and vertical axis represents the market growth rate. In such a coordinate system, enterprise activity can be visualized by means of the circles. In the paper a proposition has been put forward how to calculate the estimators of coordinates of circle centers and their radii in BCG method, taking into consideration the assessment errors on the axis of relative participation of the strategic unit under study in the market and on the axis of market’s growth rate. Advantage has been taken of the general case of LSE including Lagrange’s multipliers method with nonlinear constrains equations. An example illustrating the method proposed has been included.