Publicaciones mundiales

  • Strategic Planning

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Strategic Planning is a comprehensive process for determining what a business should become and how it can best achieve that goal.

  • Supply Chain Management

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Supply Chain Management synchronizes the efforts of all parties—suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, customers, and so on—involved in meeting a customer's needs.

  • Strategic Alliances

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Strategic Alliances are agreements among firms in which each commits resources to achieve a common set of objectives.

  • Total Quality Management

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Total Quality Management (TQM) is a systematic approach to quality improvement that marries product and service specifications to customer performance.

  • Zero-Based Budgeting

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Zero-Based Budgeting forces managers to scrutinize all spending and requires justifying every expense item that should be kept. It allows companies to radically redesign their cost structures and boost competitiveness.

  • Scenario and Contingency Planning

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Scenario Planning allows executives to explore and prepare for several alternative futures. Contingency Planning assesses what effect sudden market changes or business disruptions might have on a company and devises strategies to deal with them.

  • Satisfaction and Loyalty Management

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Loyalty Management tools grow a business's revenues and profits by improving retention among its customers, employees and investors.

  • Price Optimization Models

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Price Optimization Models are mathematical programs that calculate how demand varies at different price levels, then combine that data with information on costs and inventory levels to recommend prices that will improve profits.

  • Outsourcing

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    When Outsourcing, a company uses third parties to perform non-core business activities.

  • Open Innovation

    May 08, 2013 | Performance Improvement | Bain & Company guide

    Open Innovation applies the principles of free trade to innovation, advancing new ideas through the use of tools such as partnerships, joint ventures, licensing and strategic alliances.