Comparison

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy vs Bain Elevate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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."

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Bain Elevate

Access the latest insights and news from Bain & Company. This app allows users to easily view, share, and organize updates from the global consultancy firm.

Highlights
  • Latest Bain & Company insights
  • News and event updates
  • Secure content delivery
  • View and share content
  • Organize information
Features
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Bain Elevate securely delivers the latest Bain & Company insights and news to global users. The app makes it easy to view, share, organize and catch up on the latest news and events from around the consultancy firm.

Screenshots

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy3 screens
Bain Elevate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bain Elevate at 100% against Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's 55%. Bain Elevate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bain Elevate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bain Elevate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, Bain Elevate every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy versus Bain Elevate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYour Strategy Needs a StrategyBain Elevate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB71 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperThe Boston Consulting Group, IncBain & Company, Inc.

Customer experience

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative25.0%

Bain Elevate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

No in-app purchases

None

Bain Elevate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Your Strategy Needs a Strategy free?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bain Elevate free?
Bain Elevate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or Bain Elevate?
Bain Elevate is rated higher. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy averages 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Bain Elevate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or Bain Elevate have ads?
Neither Your Strategy Needs a Strategy nor Bain Elevate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or Bain Elevate?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, and Bain Elevate every 14 months. Most recently, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy was updated on June 11, 2026 and Bain Elevate on June 5, 2026.

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