Performance Improvement

We help companies achieve their full potential in a number of ways, working across the organization (integrated solutions) or within specific areas of performance (point solutions).

Our integrated solutions include:

• Performance improvement diagnostic℠: Change industry boundaries to redefine full potential
• PI X-Ray: Improve in-year results through quick payback opportunities
• Sustained cost transformation: Formulate disruptive changes in the industry's cost experience curve
• Cash and capital management: Create cash visibility and a disciplined capital allocation process
• Complexity management: Eliminate excess complexity to unlock value and turbocharge the organization
• Business process redesign and Lean Six Sigma: Fundamentally redesign key business processes
• Capability sourcing: Acquire the right capabilities from the right source, and the right shore, at the right price

Our point solutions include:

• G&A efficiency and effectiveness: Use the back office as an accelerator to add value to the business
• Manufacturing: Optimize the manufacturing footprint and shop-floor operations
• Supply chain management: Make your assets sweat and build a lean and flexible supply chain
• Service operations: Deliver the promised customer experience at the right cost across service channels
• Procurement and supplier leadership: Find quick cash while building purchasing capabilities
• R&D returns: Boost the ROI of research and development

Bain’s holistic and data-driven approach enables clients to achieve leadership in their core business, leverage their core strength to grow into adjacent opportunities, and operate at superior levels of performance to drive industry-leading results.

We start by analyzing what full potential means in practical terms–for a whole company, a business unit or a function. Our first step is to perform a diagnostic and size the opportunity based on hard factual data. Our strategic and cross-functional approach helps clients unlock value beyond cost containment measures within a specific area of the organization. In fact, in our experience, addressing operating problems at the nodes–the points where business units, functions, geographies, and layers of management intersect and have to make and execute critical decisions–creates between three and four times as much value as traditional approaches to right-sizing and functional excellence.

Once we have defined stretched, yet realistic targets with our clients, we work together to craft the most effective path to deliver the value. We follow a "board room to shop-floor" engagement model. We work with teams across all levels of the organization to ensure that our client companies capture the identified benefits, bank the savings, and build the internal capabilities to keep on improving performance long after our engagement ends. Our performance improvement work is at the heart of what we do as a firm, and is part of a continuum of tools for successful delivery of results. These also include customer strategy and marketing, mergers and acquisitions, organization and information technology.

Our definition of success is aligned with that of our clients’, and as part of our commitment we often tie our own fees to our clients' results.