The Three Box Solution

VG is a master of taking the complicated and making it simple. Do not underestimate the power of the Three Box model.”

Bill Achtmeyer
Parthenon Founder and Senior Managing Director
Parthenon EY

The Three Box Solution

How do you meet the performance requirements of the current business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you foresee a change in your current model before a crisis forces you to abandon it?

Manage the Present

Optimize the current business.

The elegant simplicity of VG's Three Box Solution provides a framework for enabling the Mahindra Group to balance the imperatives of the present with the demands of the future. It is a construct that permeates all our strategic thinking.

Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director,
Mahindra Group, India

Forget the Past

Let go of the values that fuel the current business yet fail the new one.

At PepsiCo, we practice what VG preaches.

Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
PepsiCo, Inc.

Create the Future

Invent a new business model.

As a long-time mentor to Hasbro, Vijay Govindarajan’s simple yet profound Three Box Solution has inspired our teams to create a culture of innovation, challenge the trappings of the past and create our future.

Brian D. Goldner
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Hasbro, Inc.

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Bill Achtmeyer Parthenon Founder and Senior Managing Director Parthenon EY