Your Strategy Needs a Strategy vs HubStar Connect
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.
HubStar Connect
This app helps employees in hybrid work environments locate colleagues and book workspaces like rooms and desks on the go. It ensures real-time updates across calendars and displays, fostering agility and collaboration.
- Book rooms, desks, and other resources
- Locate colleagues
- Find suitable workspaces
- Real-time updates for reservations
- Enhance productivity and collaboration
- Support for agile and hybrid work
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*This app is a companion to Hubstar's solutions for existing users* Book rooms, desks & more on-the-move As a vital part of your agile, hybrid working toolkit, Hubstar's mobile app allows your employees to locate colleagues and easily find a workspace that meets their needs for enhanced productivity ad collaboration. Create a more agile workplace Hybrid working is all about enabling your people to work where, when and how they like. Our mobile app is vital for the agile, hybrid working toolkit. When your team can easily find colleagues and book the spaces and things they need on the move, they are free to focus on doing their best work. Keep everyone in sync When you book a room or a desk or make a change to a reservation, Connect is updated instantly. Meeting room displays, Outlook calendars and digital signage will immediately show the most up to date information, so everyone knows what's going on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy at 55% against HubStar Connect's 0%. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.8) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's written reviews are positive against 0% of HubStar Connect's.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, HubStar Connect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Your Strategy Needs a Strategy | HubStar Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better | 1.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Boston Consulting Group | Smartway2 Ltd |
Customer experience
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
HubStar Connect
In-app purchases
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
No in-app purchases
HubStar Connect
No in-app purchases
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