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March 2004Newsletter Preparing for the next tech wave
Bain Technology and Telecom Results 3/31/2004
by Vince Tobkin and Michael Garstka
With companies positioning themselves for a recovery in technology spending, I thought you might be interested in seeing Bain's point of view on how tech companies can grow profitably during industry upswings. Based on a recent FT.com article by Vince Tobkin, leader of Bain's global technology practice, and Michael Garstka, who directs Bain's Asia technology practice, the article lays out a measured and systematic approach that big tech firms can use to take full advantage of emerging trends.
Article Sourcing Strategy: The Next Frontier
Chief Executive 3/11/2004
by Rudy Puryear
Outsourcing has tended to move toward the top of the CEO agenda when companies are under pressure to cut costs. As spending picks up and companies begin to refocus on growth, outsourcing usually falls off the agenda. But something very different is happening in the current economic cycle. As the economy has strengthened, the interest in outsourcing has not slackened. If anything, it's intensified.
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February 2004Article Business Leadership: Branching Out From The Core
Optimize 2/1/2004
by Steve Berez and Chris Zook
Senior executives often feel embattled. Their companies must continually grow, a goal harder to achieve now than it was five years ago, according to chief executives interviewed in a recent Bain study. And the pressure keeps building. Stock analysts expect companies in the S&P 500 index to post annual earnings growth of more than 12% on average. Yet, fewer than 13% grow earnings and revenue at 5.5% or higher and earn back their cost of capital over 10 years, according to the Bain research. In this tough environment, where can CEOs find sorely needed expansion opportunities?
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January 2004Article How to rebuild software company valuations
FT.com 1/20/2004
by Jeff Melton and Christian Illek
While software companies desperately search for the next killer application to feed top-line growth in a maturing industry, most could bolster their battered bottom lines with one simple step: selling licences through a subscription model.
March 2003Article Strategic IT investment
CEO Magazine 3/1/2003
by Sunny Yi
How does one achieve dramatic margin improvements, and what are the secrets of company-wide, large-scale IT implementation? There are six critical steps to implementing IT and initiating a large-scale transformation project. Companies that understood the variables associated with such a transformation, like Oracle, Cisco, and Dell, enjoyed success. Others who blindly took on these tasks failed to achieve results, and others ended in bankruptcy.
February 2003Article The hidden IT multiplier in mergers
Financial Times 2/14/2003
by Simon Heap, Sam Israelit and David Shpilberg
Many merging businesses go only as far as analysing the potential savings of fusing their IT units, through headcount reductions, for example, or economies of scale in purchasing. But companies that stop there miss an opportunity to create much more value for the merged organization - through quick consolidation of customer accounts to give a complete picture of everything that customers are buying, for instance, or integrating ledgers across multiple product lines so executives know what they are managing in the new environment.
July 2002Article Second coming for e-business
Finance Today 7/1/2002
by Steven Berez, Gerry Mulvin and Jean-Pierre Felenbok
Following the widespread failure of dotcom firms, many business leaders eased back on all things "e." Yet a 2001 Bain & Company survey shows that 62% of top managers believe their companies don't take full advantage of the Internet, and that 49% say they are aggressively expanding their e-commerce capabilities.
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