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Organizational Design & Operating Model

A well-designed operating model is the bridge that allows a company to turn its strategy into results. Bain Operating Model helps you clarify where and how critical work gets done in the organization in service of your overall strategy.

Organizational Design & Operating Model

Why Bain

Why Bain

  • We work closely with you as partners, customizing our proven approach to your company’s unique needs.
  • Our experience in operating model includes a variety of situations ranging from strategic realignment to cost reduction to merger integration.
  • We have deep experience and expertise: Bain has assisted our clients on more than 2,700 organizational design projects since 2000.
  • Bain is a thought leader on major operating model topics and new ways to unleash productivity—for instance, see our recent book Time, Talent, Energy.

What to Expect

What to Expect

Robust strategic foundation

Assess organizational strengths and weaknesses, align on design principles, and shape your organization design choices to match your strategic priorities.

Better performance and engagement

Improve in both business performance (e.g., decision velocity, allocation of human and financial capital resources) and employee engagement.

Mobilization and change management

Develop the capabilities to deliver the new operating model and mitigate risks with our proprietary Results Delivery® approach.

Client Results

Healthcare

Creating a regional operating model in medical devices

A leading medical device manufacturer boasted strong growth in the US, where it was organized by product division, but lagged in Europe, where its business units focused on countries. By working with Bain to create a single regional operating model based on best practices, the company boosted both sales and overall employee engagement in Europe.

may. 2, 2018

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Our Team

Sarah Elk Partner Chicago

Marcia Blenko Advisory Partner Boston

Ludovica Mottura Global Practice Senior Director Boston

Eric Garton Partner Chicago

Julie Coffman Partner Chicago

Stephen Shih Partner Shanghai

Sanjay Dhiri Partner London

David Cooper Partner New York

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