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Zero-based Redesign (ZBR)

A fresh start can be the best start. Bain Zero-based Redesign is a onetime, blank-sheet approach that transforms your operating model to simplify your organization, streamline work processes, reveal digital opportunities and unlock massive savings.

Why Bain

Why Bain

Organizational transformation—financial, operational, strategic—is at the core of what Bain has done since it was founded more than 40 years ago.
ZBR helps you focus on investing in and improving the activities that provide your competitive advantage, while eliminating unnecessary activities.
Our proven techniques and tools help you simplify your operating model—from structure to governance to ways of working.
Our detailed, comprehensive design and execution plans, combined with Bain Behavior Change Approach, ensure that you achieve and sustain the results you seek.
We wrote the book—Time, Talent, Energy—on how to overcome organizational drag and unleash your team’s productive power.

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Results You Can Expect

Results You Can Expect

Dramatically lower costs

Generate cost savings of 20%–40%.

Superior shareholder returns

Raise profitability, free up resources for growth and improve competitiveness.

More productive organization

Become a simpler, flatter, more effective organization.

Higher employee engagement

Remove obstacles so that employees can focus on the most strategically important activities and add more value for customers.

Our Team

Sarah Elk Partner Chicago

Jason Heinrich Partner Chicago

Andrew Carleton Partner London

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Insights

Bain Support Function Advantage

Fast and Easy G&A Cuts Won’t Cut It in the Next Recession

Companies need to raise their G&A cost efficiency.

Bain Accelerated Transformation

Moves to Make Now for the Recession

Bain Partners Jeff Katzin and Tom Holland explain how downturns can actually present opportunities for businesses to grow and outpace competitors.

Bain Support Function Advantage

Think Cutting G&A Costs in the Next Recession Will Be Easy? Think Again

Cost efficiency has stalled, despite massive investment in digital technologies.

Bain Zero-based Budgeting

Smart Moves to Make Now Ahead of a Recession

Seize the day and think of a recession as the best time to pass competitors.

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