A corporate staff slims down for faster, better decisions
The corporate staff at HomeCorp, a large building-supply manufacturer, was three times that of competitors, yet the company had few new product breakthroughs. We worked with our client to design a new corporate structure that pushed more decisions to the division level, improving the effectiveness of those decisions and reducing corporate headcount by 70 percent.
A building-supply manufacturer needed to update and rationalize the role of its corporate center.
- HomeCorp was a large industrial company whose corporate structure had sprawled over 30 years into 9 divisions, 83 departments and centralized finance, technology, IT and administration departments.
- HomeCorp's corporate staff was three times larger than those of its competitors. Decision-making was cumbersome. Everyone was involved but nobody was accountable, so HomeCorp had fewer new product breakthroughs and longer lead times.
- HomeCorp asked Bain to help it devise a new, more effective corporate structure.
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Bain devised a set of criteria to determine what practical actions HomeCorp should take in each department.
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We recommended that HomeCorp change its corporate organization so that it focused on four critical processes.
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HomeCorp's restructuring allowed the organization to push more decisions to the division level, improving the speed and effectiveness of decision-making and allowing HomeCorp to reduce corporate-level headcount by almost 70 percent.
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