Your Strategy Needs a Strategy vs PwC Capabilities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
This interactive learning tool allows users to experience strategic business environments and learn how to choose and execute the right strategy. Players adapt their approach to selling lemonade across five distinct New York City boroughs, each representing a different strategic environment. It's based on insights from the book "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy."
- 5 strategic environments based on NYC boroughs
- 15 levels of gameplay
- Sandbox mode for custom play
- In-game tips and post-game debriefs
- Interactive Learn More section
- Sample content from the book
Read full descriptionHide full description
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is a hands on learning tool for business executives, students, and curious strategists of any kind to experience strategic environments and understand how to choose and execute the right approach to strategy. Using the simplest of businesses - selling lemonade, players must adapt their strategic approach to the various business environments of New York City's five boroughs. Based on the insights of the book Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (Harvard Business Press 2015), this app brings to life the different strategic approaches necessary to survive and thrive in today's dynamic and diverse business environments. Key features: - 5 different boroughs representing 5 fundamental strategic environments: classical, adaptive, visionary, shaping, renewal. - In total, 15 levels of gameplay against an increasingly challenging and strategically adept, computer opponent named after BCG's founder Bruce D. Henderson - A Sandbox level where you can choose your prefered environment and level of difficulty - In-game tips and post-game debriefs connect the gameplay to both theory and strategy in the real world - Interactive Learn More section that provides background on the strategic concepts underlying each environment and approach to strategy - Sample content from the book Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (Harvard Business Press 2015) - Direct links to further materials and videos, such as a TED talk (http://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-bcg/martin-reeves-your-strategy-needs-a-strategy) - Extended seminar version of game available as part of BCG's broader strategy offering. Please reach out to the BCG Henderson Institute at bhi@bcg.com for more information.
PwC Capabilities
Read full descriptionHide full description
In an effort to socialize the capabilities that is available within the various industries of the Central Cluster and to analyses the wealth of experience and skills across the territories, a Capabilities database is being developed. This application will be used for 18 different territories, which include proper authentication of the uploaded document by respective Knowledge Manager (KM) team members. The Central Cluster Capabilities database will be a web based and mobile browser based portal application which can be accessed by all the PwC employees/staff of the Central Cluster.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PwC Capabilities at weekly against Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's monthly. PwC Capabilities also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 9.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, PwC Capabilities weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and December 25, 2025 respectively.
| Parameter | Your Strategy Needs a Strategy | PwC Capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Boston Consulting Group, Inc | PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited |
In-app purchases
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
No in-app purchases
PwC Capabilities
No in-app purchases







