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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.

Zero-based Redesign (ZBR)

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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What to Expect

What to 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.

Client Results

Healthcare

Zero-based Redesign Puts a MedTech Leader on a Path to Sustainable Growth

A spectacular multi-year run fueled both by organic growth and acquisitions had placed MedTechCo* among the giants in the medical technology field. However, in one of the multi-billion dollar company’s most important markets, a key line of business that supplies equipment to universities, research labs, industrial companies and other clients faced significant disruption. Multiple forces were eroding profit margins and leaving MedTechCo operating at near break-even levels. New leadership partnered with Bain, intent on making sure that growth and profitability went hand in hand.

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