Performance Improvement Insights

Beyond Tariffs: The Supply Chain Reinvention Imperative

Tariffs are accelerating businesses’ operations overhaul. Winning in today’s disrupted world demands bold trade-offs and strategic transformation.

Supply Chain

Nearshoring: Overcoming the Obstacles

Most companies want to bring production closer to home, but rerouting supply chains is complicated.

Strategy

How CFOs Are Planning for Geopolitical Risk

Facing macroeconomic shifts, CFOs are adjusting their plans but holding the line on capital investment.

Support Functions

What CFOs Need to Know About Inflation, Tariffs, and Capital Markets

Goldman Sachs’ Tim Ingrassia joins Bain's Karen Harris and Pam Yee to unpack the macro forces shaping the CFO agenda.

Agribusiness

Energy’s Capital Projects Reset: Faster, Smarter, Leaner

As costs rise and delays abound, executives are rethinking their approaches to capital projects.

Telecommunications

The US Telecom Cost-Cutting Imperative: $28 Billion by ’28

With growth harder to achieve, a bold cost strategy is key to sustainable value creation.

Accelerated Performance Transformation

Tariffs Are Shaking Up Investment Priorities

As input costs rise, companies are revising forecasts and shifting capital to supply chains and tech.

Financial Services

Four Ways to Improve Performance in Financial Services

Smart technology choices alone won’t fuel change. True adoption requires a culture shift.

Accelerated Performance Transformation

Transform Your Company’s Performance with an Owner’s Mindset

Winners make productivity a strategic priority.

Sustainability

Overcoming Barriers to Singapore SME Decarbonisation

Decarbonising small and medium enterprises can unlock economic value and mitigate emissions.

Performance Improvement

How CEOs Can Balance the New Supply Chain Equation

Reinventing supply chains for today’s turbulent world requires vision and making complex trade-offs.

Performance Improvement

Why Successful Transformations Depend on Frontline Ownership

Energizing the front line and leveraging cross-functional expertise can help you overcome the complexity (and disappointment) that often befall transformation efforts.

Corporate Strategy

Capital Is Expensive Again. Now What?

With growing interest rates, business managers need to allocate expenses towards long-term growth investments.

People and Organization

Complexity Reduction

Complexity Reduction is a process to help companies simplify their strategy, organization, products, processes, and technology.

Operations

Total Quality Management

Total Quality Management (TQM) is an organization-wide, customer-focused mindset and data-driven approach to eliminating, reducing, or preventing errors.

Performance Improvement

Zero-Based Budgeting

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that takes a “blank sheet of paper” approach to resource planning.

Performance Improvement

Business Process Reengineering

Business Process Reengineering is the radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, cycle times, quality, and employee and customer satisfaction.

Change Management

Change Management Programs

Change Management programs are plans that enable companies to implement new processes, systems, and strategies to achieve superior business performance.

Operations

Unlearning the Growth vs. Costs Myth

How some companies use this timeless tension as a catalyst for outperformance.

Accelerated Performance Transformation

The New Recession Playbook

How the best businesses are planning for the coming downturn.

Pricing

Accelerating Performance Despite Inflation

Turbulent times shouldn’t stop companies from pursuing full potential and business resiliency.

Performance Improvement

Smart Responses to Inflation and Volatility

Bain partners share strategies that leaders can take to remain resilient amid ongoing global crises.

Performance Improvement

Cash Management Practices to Weather a Downturn

Take an honest look at the business, and decide where to improve.

Accelerated Performance Transformation

Five Steps to Optimize Net Working Capital

Skilled cash management can help a company free up liquidity.

Machinery & Equipment

Industrial Service: Digital Tools Speed Change

Leading companies are retraining workers and hiring new talent to fill a skills gap.

Performance Improvement

Bain and Bosch: Sustaining Competitiveness in Manufacturing

Bosch’s Martin Richter joins Bain’s Michael Weber, and Deepak Jain to discuss staying competitive in manufacturing through Industry 4.0 and digital operations.