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Organization

Organization

Some organizations just work. They accomplish what they set out to do, powered by engaged employees with the tools and motivation to get the job done. Yet only 20 percent of companies are designed to achieve this. We help you improve your company’s performance and become a better place to work by ensuring your entire organization can deliver on your strategy.

Organization

An effective organization clarifies where and how work gets done. Get that right and the payoff can be significant. Our research finds a 6% advantage in total shareholder return, and a notable boost in employee engagement. The secret: decisions. The best performers make better decisions, make them more quickly and execute them more effectively. Our experts can help you improve organizational performance from the top to the bottom of the org chart, by working with you to:

  • Build a bridge from strategy to results, using our proprietary diagnostic to assess your current operating model and determine how to effectively implement a strategic realignment, cost reduction program, merger integration, or seize any number of other opportunities. In situations where a fresh start is called for, zero-based redesign can help you simplify your organization, streamline work processes, advance your digital strategy and unlock massive savings.
  • Make and execute decisions faster than your competitors, by assessing and developing your decision effectiveness. Decision made, we help you execute it quickly and successfully, using Agile methods.
  • Define your long-term talent needs and develop a strategy for meeting them, supported by the systems you need to recruit, retain and develop the people your company depends on. We also help you maximize your talent strategy by showing you how to build the kind of culture that inspires optimum performance. 

 

Insights
Organization
Fixing Poor Organizational Performance
Many companies flounder when they try to cure what ails them. To succeed, pinpoint your specific problems before trying to fix them.
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Organization
Why More Chinese Millennials Don’t Want to Work for Multinationals
Over the past five years, business leaders in China have moved from multinational to local companies at more than five times the rate that they moved from local companies to multinationals.
WSJ's The Experts
Organization
Finding the Right Remedy for Poor Organizational Performance
Diagnose the root causes of dysfunction so that you don’t solve for the wrong problem.
Brief
Organization
Are You Getting Value from Your Center?
Four models for the corporate center define what activities it takes on and how it engages with the business units.
Brief
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Client Results

Telecommunications

Post-merger cultural issues jeopardize a deal
Post-merger cultural issues threatened to jeopardize a deal between this global mobile operator and a large European provider. Bain recommended a series of workshops to address cultural issues and worked with executives to define a new "desired culture" based on the company’s strategy. More than 200 initiatives were implemented to close the gap between current behaviors and the desired company values.

Oil & Gas

Organization transformation for an oil and gas super major
OilCo wanted to shift from a geocentric model to a global model to improve performance, but doing so presented significant cultural and logistical challenges. Bain helped OilCo map roles, update critical systems, standardize key processes and communicate clearly to business units. The result: The new, centralized organization was implemented ahead of schedule and with minimal disruption to the business.
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Our Team

Julie Coffman Partner Chicago

Stephen Shih Partner Shanghai

Sanjay Dhiri Partner London

Ludovica Mottura Global Practice Senior Director Boston

Paul Meehan Partner London

Nader Elkhweet Partner Jakarta

Vincenzo Gringoli Partner Milan

Wael Hatoum Partner Middle East

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Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Bain has a comprehensive tool kit and team of global experts to help companies break down organizational barriers and address decision inefficiencies to get to high performance. Working jointly with our clients, we start with a focus on which decisions matter most to overall performance. Small, everyday decisions can matter as much as big strategic ones. We then build integrated organizational systems that are explicitly geared to support these key decisions. We go beyond the "hard" issues of structure, roles and processes to addresses the "soft" elements such as people, behaviors and culture.

Our ultimate objective is to embed new capabilities and repeatable processes so that people at all levels can decide and deliver, again and again.

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