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To reach its full potential, a company must achieve world class performance across multiple dimensions. Improving performance may come in the form of: revenue enhancement, cost management, supply chain, purchasing, manufacturing, service operations, complexity management, change management, lean six sigma, capability sourcing, and/or business process redesign. In combination with a differentiated and well focused strategy, performance improvement is fundamental to a company's success.

Our performance improvement work is at the heart of what we do as a firm. A survey of major projects in this area shows that, within two to three years, our clients achieve an average of 15 percent revenue growth and raise margins by 7 percentage points. As part of our commitment to creating value, we often tie our own fees to our clients' results.

Our approach ensures that clients achieve leadership in their core business, expand thoughtfully, and constantly improve through operational excellence. Typically, we start by using simple diagnostic tools, such as the revenue sieve and proprietary cost benchmarks, to identify the key levers for improving performance in a given situation.  For the key priorities to improve performance, we define specific goals.  Then we pool client and Bain resources and use the most valuable tools, Bain functional expertise, and change management techniques to deliver results.

We have a number of ways to help companies achieve their full potential. View our services here or by clicking on the image below.

Performance Improvement Overall performanceRevenue EnhancementCost managementComplexity ManagementCapability sourcingLean Six SigmaBusiness Process RedesignOrganizationInformation TechnologyChange Management

To find out more about Bain's work in this capability area, please contact the Performance Improvement practice.

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Performance improvement leads to $2.4B in shareholder value
Problem: Significant share price decline
Approach: Define performance improvement options from understanding of core strengths
Recommendations: Launch a broad performance improvement program
Results: $2.4B in shareholder value created
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