Digital
Digital disruption can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: A threat to businesses that
view it that way, but a rich opportunity for those who see it as a way to deliver
on core strategy, delight customers and operate smarter and faster. Our digital
experts help companies across all industries, regions and growth stages to determine
not what digital will do to them, but what they will do with digital.
Strategy
Technology helps companies transform themselves and grow their business. Bain helps
clients that are embarking on major growth or change that is heavily technology-dependent
to identify the optimal future state of IT, aligned with business needs, and then
jointly develop an implementation blueprint.
IT performance improvement: Underperforming IT negatively affects business performance.
Bain works with companies seeking to address their IT efficiency problems to not
only reduce costs, but to improve and develop capabilities that enable innovation
and agility.
IT M&A: Technology-related synergies are key to successful mergers, acquisitions,
divestitures and separations, but too often they are overlooked early in the deal.
We help companies plan and manage the changes in their systems to accommodate changes
in business structure.
IT project effectiveness: Bain helps clients maximize the business results from
major technology initiatives, including turnaround programs. We help executives
evaluate the case for investment, set up projects for success—or place current projects
on the right track—to ensure they capture value when implementing new systems and
programs.
Bain Rebooting IT: Many companies face a mismatch when it comes to the ability of
their IT to fulfill increasing customer expectations. Our experts help companies
transform legacy IT to win in a digital environment using proprietary benchmarks,
diagnostics and a detailed and tested approach that helps to transform the existing
IT operating model.
Organization
Some organizations work. They accomplish what they set out to do and their employees
are engaged and happy with their jobs. Yet Bain research indicates that only 20
percent of companies achieve that. Bain helps clients improve financial performance
and make their organizations better places to work by ensuring the entire organization
system is aligned and set up to deliver on the company's objectives.
Sustainability
When it comes to sustainability and corporate responsibility, we believe the normal
rules of business apply. That is, to be successful, organizations must embed sustainable
principles in the core of their strategy, operations and culture. We work with private
and public sector organizations to do just that, identifying opportunities and developing
robust business cases to make sustainability a source of on-going and increasing
value.
Results Delivery
Traditional change management has been around for decades, but is the same old approach
really enough to make a difference? More than 70 percent of major change efforts
typically fail. Bain's approach to realizing results helps clients overcome the
odds. Our approach to Results Delivery® focuses on predicting, measuring and managing
risk associated with the change from day one. The result: A considerable increase
in the odds of success and the support of Bain experts and dedicated partners within
the client's organization who are focused on achieving it.
Advanced Analytics
Big data and advanced analytics are creating profound new opportunities for businesses,
yet we found that only 4% of companies are able to combine the right people, tools,
data and organizational focus to take advantage. To realize the value of big data,
organizations need strategic—and not merely technological—solutions. Bain’s strategy
experience and analytical expertise help ensure that businesses build the right
capabilities to mine data for insights that can enable better decisions and create
value.
Information Technology
A company's technology organization should support its business strategy, not constrain
it. Bain focuses first on the strategic needs of our clients' businesses to determine
the technology capabilities needed to support their long-term goals. We help companies
confidently address technology-related decisions and ensure their IT organizations
and operating models are agile and effective, equipping them to cut through the
noise of fleeting technology trends to create enduring results.
Performance Improvement
Bain is the best consulting partner for companies that are committed to quickly
achieving and sustaining their full potential. Our clients realize, on average,
results yielding 25 times returns on our fees and margin improvements of seven percentage
points within two to three years.
Customer Strategy & Marketing
Customers are the source of real growth. Bain combines in-depth customer insights
with practical expertise in operations and economics to help our clients create
sustainable, organic growth.