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.
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
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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.
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.
- Latest Bain & Company insights
- News and event updates
- Secure content delivery
- View and share content
- Organize information
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Your Strategy Needs a Strategy | Bain Elevate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Boston Consulting Group, Inc | Bain & Company, Inc. |
Customer experience
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
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In-app purchases
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
No in-app purchases
Bain Elevate
No in-app purchases
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