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      Solution

      Business Strategy

      Business Strategy

      Win today and in the future.

      Highlights

      Our clients experience 2x TSR
      when compared to sector benchmarks
      Strategy equals execution
      88% of change efforts disappoint when the connection is weak

      Disruptive technologies. Geopolitical tensions. Macroeconomic uncertainty. Competitive threats old and new. The very factors that make business strategy so essential also make it challenging to develop and execute.

      We can help. Our proven, structured approach ensures that you move confidently through every stage and generate real value along the way. We work closely with you to:

      • Conduct a rigorous today-forward/future-back analysis of your starting point, near-term opportunities, and long-range ambition.
      • Make the right choices about where to play, how to leverage your strengths, and how to augment your core business with adjacent products and services to reach your full potential.
      • Translate those choices into actionable priorities, supported by the right resources and with signposts identified to guide you on a flexible journey, so you deliver strong results while adapting to change as needed.
      • Align your leadership team as you debate, design, and commit to the actions that drive your business forward.

      How We Can Help

      How We Can Help

      Across four critical pillars of strategy development and execution, we help you create value today and in the future as you build a sustainable winning edge.

      Full Strategy Review

      Determine the right priorities for sustained growth in your core and Engine 2, balanced across today-forward and future-back views.

      • Full-Potential Growth
      • Value Creation Plan
      • Scenario Planning
      • Future-Back Strategy 

      Business Model Disruption

      Understand the trends transforming your industry profit pools and the implications for your organization.

      • Generative AI Strategy
      • Green Transition Value Creation

      Growth Beyond the Core

      Determine where and how to grow by identifying and prioritizing the opportunities that create the right balance between core and adjacent businesses.

      • Adjacency Growth

      Evergreen Strategy Agenda

      Take your business to full potential with regular dialogues about priorities, backlogs, and emerging issues.

      • Living Strategy
      • Micro-battles System
      • Results Delivery Office

      Business Strategy Tools & Benchmarks

      Our proprietary tool stack offers unrivaled insights for data-driven breakthrough strategies. Examples include:

      • Strategy Generative AI Solutions
      • ProfitCube℠
      • NPS Prism®
      • Venture Ecosystem Scan
      • Future-Back Explorer
      • ARC℠ Change Management Tool

      The Power of Future-Back: Imagine if...

      In a rapidly changing world, imagine if you were the first to spot and respond to new opportunities. A future-back approach to strategy makes that possible.

      WATCH
      Two individuals looking at a tablet in a room with holographic blueprints of robots and office furniture.

      Client Results

      Case study

      A Bold New Strategy Restores a Bank to a Leadership Position
      Its holistic approach to simplification, execution discipline, and digitalization has proved transformational.

      Case study

      A Steel Company Seeks to Regain Market Leadership
      A host of factors bumped SteelCo from its dominant position. We helped it chart a new path forward.
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      Watch on Fortune: How to fuel innovation in the new era of business

      Analyst Recognition

      Analyst Recognition

      We have been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Innovation Consulting Services, Q2 2024.

      We have been recognized as a Leader by IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services 2025 Vendor Assessment.

       

      Our Business Strategy Insights

      Lean Strategy Making
      Standardizing your company’s approach can pay off. Here’s how.
      HBR.org
      Bain Beliefs on Strategy
      Companies that outgrow and outearn their peers live by these five lessons.
      Report
      How to Succeed in an Era of Volatility
      Invest in prediction, adaptability, and resilience.
      HBR.org
      NPS®
      Desbloquee su transformación con IA
      Tratar la IA generativa solo como una herramienta no está funcionando. Es momento de rediseñar el trabajo, repensar los modelos operativos y liderar el cambio desde el liderazgo.
      Brief
      The Visionary CEO’s Guide to Sustainability 2025
      The power of pragmatism.
      Report
      Transformations That Work
      Lessons from companies that are defying the odds.
      Harvard Business Review
      Strategic Planning
      Lean Strategy: Make Smarter Moves, Faster
      Bain's Michael Mankins and Thomas Sweet, former CFO of Dell Technologies, share how a lean strategy framework accelerates smarter decision-making and enhances performance.
      Webinar
      Tariff Response: What You Need to Know
      Bain's Karen Harris and Hernan Saenz discuss the lasting impact of tariffs, what leading companies are doing to adapt, and the strategic moves to make for success.
      Webinar
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      Lead with a Founder's Mentality

      Through a series of conversations, CEOs from leading companies sit down and share how they’re building scale while keeping the agility needed to navigate uncertainty and meet the moment

      Meeting the moment

      Our Business Strategy Experts

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      Dunigan O'Keeffe Partner San Francisco

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      Sophie Horrocks Partner London

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      Guy Brusselmans Partner Stockholm

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      Jenny Lundqvist Practice Executive Vice President Copenhagen

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      James Allen Advisory Partner London

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      Michael Mankins Partner Austin

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      Ouriel Lancry Partner Chicago

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      James Hadley Partner London

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      Nicolas Bloch Partner Brussels

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      Martin Toner Partner New York

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      Grant Dougans Partner Washington, DC

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      Audrey Hadida Partner Paris

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      Daniel Jones Partner New York

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      Bhavya Nand Kishore Practice Executive Vice President Zurich

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      Our Strategy Consulting Expertise

      Our Strategy Consulting Expertise

      Future Sensing

      Enter Future Sensing, a unique interdisciplinary capability that helps interpret the signals within a host of emerging trends. Future Sensing provides the insight you need to not only navigate turbulence, maximize opportunities, and reduce risks, but understand how the interplay of these dynamic forces will affect your strategy.

      Learn more

      Venture Ecosystem

      The Venture Ecosystem is a global team of change-makers and thought-leaders with deep experience in the start-up and venture-capital worlds. Our mission is to spark innovation between bold organizations and insurgents by activating our global network of disruptors and investors.

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      Macro Trends

      In the decades to come, geopolitical trends, demographic forces, and new technologies will dramatically reshape the global economic landscape. We provide insights on how businesses can prepare for the strategic challenges and opportunities that may result from this transformation.

      Learn more

      Consumer Lab

      Develop a deeper understanding of your customers, beyond their shopping baskets.

      Learn more

      Organizational Design and Operating Model

      Organizational Design and Operating Model

      This is how you make your strategy happen

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      Support Functions

      Support Functions

      Transform your support functions so they power your growth.

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      Transformation

      Transformation

      Think big. Change your trajectory.

      Read more

      Results Delivery® Office

      Results Delivery® Office

      Our unique approach to orchestrating your change program, using Agile to deliver quick results and our proprietary risk dialogue to remove roadblocks.

      Read more

      Innovation & Business Building

      Innovation & Business Building

      Transform bold ideas into scalable businesses

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      Digital Innovation Hubs

      Digital Innovation Hubs

      Collaborate with our digital experts to bring the future to life

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