Comparison

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.

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy3 screens
HubStar Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy versus HubStar Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYour Strategy Needs a StrategyHubStar Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (11 ratings) — better1.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Boston Consulting GroupSmartway2 Ltd

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%

HubStar Connect

All ratings6 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

No in-app purchases

None

HubStar Connect

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 HubStar Connect free?
HubStar Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or HubStar Connect?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is rated higher. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy averages 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while HubStar Connect averages 1.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or HubStar Connect have ads?
Neither Your Strategy Needs a Strategy nor HubStar Connect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or HubStar Connect?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, and HubStar Connect every 3 weeks. Most recently, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy was updated on October 24, 2026 and HubStar Connect on October 27, 2026.

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