BOSTON – September 5, 2025 – Bain & Company has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (#US52035225, September 2025).  

The report notes, “Clients appreciate Bain's collaborative culture and strong relationships, particularly at the executive level.” The report noted, “Bain's collaborative, data-driven approach aligns leadership and energizes teams to deliver from day 1. Bain architects transformations that seek to maximize results from strategy and build adaptability for clients to navigate future disruption and deliver expected results.”  

The IDC MarketScape’s evaluation recognizes that “clients appreciate Bain’s challenge culture, which encourages new approaches along with the capability to upskill the clients to accept them. Executive team-level coaching is an example of how Bain helps clients to accept new ways of interacting with the problem at hand.” The report notes that “Bain & Company is a strong choice for strategic consulting when a business needs clear, actionable strategies backed by rigorous analysis and deep industry knowledge and bold provocations for future strategic positioning.”  

According to the report, “Bain excels in helping companies navigate complex transformations, accelerate growth, and improve performance. Its collaborative approach ensures alignment with client teams, fostering ownership and sustainable results. With a strong focus on measurable impact, Bain is particularly effective for organizations facing high-stakes decisions, competitive pressures, or operational inefficiencies.” 

The report noted, “Bain's approach with its clients is to define and fashion bold futures with them. Trusted by over 65% of the world's prominent businesses, Bain crafts corporate, business, and functional strategies that deliver sustainable competitive advantage and long-term outperformance (2x TSR). Leveraging 'future-back' insights, AI-powered analytics, and deep industry expertise, its thought leadership challenges the status quo and inspires bold moves.”  

Bain’s “enterprise strategy capability focuses on helping organizations align strategic priorities with operational execution, particularly in the context of digital transformation and AI integration. The firm emphasizes the role of enterprise data and process redesign in enabling scalable, AI-driven decision-making. Bain’s recent insights highlight how clean, connected data serves as a foundation for embedding AI into core business processes such as sales planning, financial reconciliation, and customer service.” 

The MarketScape notes that “Bain also explores how enterprise applications and platforms, like SAP and Databricks, are evolving to support AI integration. These platforms are being used to automate legacy processes, improve data governance, and enable real-time insights. Bain’s approach includes working with clients to redesign workflows and adopt agile delivery models that support iterative development and faster adaptation to change in support of breakthrough strategies.”  

According to the report, “Organizational readiness is another area of focus. Bain identifies leadership alignment, cross-functional collaboration, and governance as key enablers of successful enterprise strategy execution. The firm also supports the development of transformation roadmaps that incorporate both technology and human capital considerations, ensuring that strategic initiatives are grounded in operational feasibility.”  

“We are proud to be recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services,” said Dunigan O’Keeffe, a Bain partner and head of the firm’s Strategy and Transformation practice globally. “At Bain, we focus on creating breakthrough strategies that help leaders create lasting competitive advantage in a rapidly changing world.” 

An excerpt copy of the IDC MarketScape report can be accessed here.  

 SOURCE:  “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services 2025 Vendor Assessment” by Bill Latshaw, September 2025, IDC # US52035225.

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market.  The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

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About Bain & Company 

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.  

Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.  

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.