National oil companies: Beyond boundaries, beyond borders
Bain Brief 9/20/2009
The era of a new, influential global player-the New Multinational Oil Company (NMOC)-is well underway. These emerging NMOCs operate across the globe. In many ways-structural, financial and operational-they are closer to International Oil Companies (IOCs) than their former domestic-only organisations. The increasing convergence between IOCs and NMOCs is changing the landscape of the global Oil & Gas industry forever-both in terms of cooperation and competition.
Financial services' shifting profit pools
Bain Brief 9/15/2009
by Andrew Schwedel and Antonio Rodrigues
Financial services companies have spent a long, turbulent spell wrestling with the huge credit and liquidity challenges that have rocked the sector. They've skirted insolvency, survived vertiginous drops in asset prices and adapted to tough government oversight. Unfortunately, much more work remains to be done. Companies need to retool three key elements of their businesses where they retain critical room to maneuver.
Offense is the best form of defense
Bain Brief 9/3/2009
by Sam Israelit, Chris Brahm and Dianne Ledingham
Adversity always shuffles the deck in the tech industry, and the 2008-2009 downturn already shows signs of disruption that might create new winners in the future. While most companies are still reacting defensively to the recession, those that are aggressively preparing to go on the offense will not just survive the downturn; they will race ahead of the competition as the economy improves.
Mid-year review (2009): sharp turns ahead
Industry Brief 9/1/2009
However chaotic the game might have been so far, at half-time in 2009, leading Oil & Gas CEOs are prepared to go on the offensive as well as defend their company position. Their top priorities: organisation, operations, technology and mergers & acquisitions.
Private Equity's new landscape
Industry Brief 6/23/2009
by Hugh MacArthur, Graham Elton, Bill Halloran and Chul-Joon Park
The worst for private equity may be over. But as the market improves, the more pressing question is where does the industry go from here?
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