September 2009What do Asia's executives really think about the crisis?
Bangkok Post 9/19/2009
by Till Vestring and Sharad Apte
Asia's executives believe they waited too long to respond to the global downturn. And they are betting on international growth and innovation to overcome the financial crisis. These are just two of the findings from Bain & Company's survey of executive views on business trends and management tools.
June 2009 Management Tools for turbulent times
Results Brief newsletter 6/12/2009
by Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau
Bain & Company has surveyed global executives about Management Tools and Trends since 1993, but never during a period of such economic turbulence. One sign of the times: a cost-cutting tool-benchmarking-has become the most popular tool for the first time since we began tracking tool use. We also found that executives in emerging markets are more focused on growth and innovation than their counterparts in established economies, especially North America, where the emphasis on cost cutting is strongest.
May 2009 Management Tools and Trends 2009
Bain Brief 5/29/2009
by Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau
Bain & Company has been conducting global Management Tools and Trends surveys since 1993. Never before have we surveyed executives during a period of such economic turbulence. It is a sign of the times that a cost-cutting tool - Benchmarking - has become the most popular tool for the first time in 11 years. The latest questionnaire was conducted in January 2009 and reflects behavior in 2008. It was completed by 1,430 international executives from companies in a broad range of industries and focuses on 25 tools. Their answers provide insights into how they think their companies are performing in the downturn and where they believe their organizations ultimately are headed.
Los ejecutivos prevén más ajustes
La Nación 5/24/2009
by Florencia Donovan
Stock markets recover, some indexes of the world economy are improving, but companies are far from celebrating a victory. The financial crisis has shaken almost all sectors of the real economy and today most of the companies not only recognize their concern with meeting growth targets in 2009, but also prepare to continue navigating a hostile environment, at least until the first half of next year. This was the trigger for a survey conducted by Bain & Company amongst 1430 executives around the world, including some of the major companies in Argentina.
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April 2009Soapbox: Leverage lessons
The Deal.com 4/10/2009
by Orit Gadiesh and Hugh MacArthur
In The Deal Newsweekly Orit Gadiesh and Hugh MacArthur of Bain & Company discuss the strategies PE funds are using to cash in on returns down the road.
Executives see big spike in downsizing in 2009: Largest year-over-year percent increases occuring outside USA
Bain & Company press release 4/7/2009
Bain & Company's new Management Tools 2009 survey finds downsizing initiatives jumping 75% over 2008 in Europe and Asia, and more than double in Latin America.
March 2009 Who Needs a Desk Phone?
Business Week 3/12/2009
by Jena McGregor
The dismal jobs outlook is only going to get drearier worldwide, suggests a new study by Bain & Company. The consulting firm's latest biannual Management Tools & Trends survey found that of 1,430 managers polled globally, 59% plan layoffs in 2009. Some 34% said they had already made job cuts in 2008. What's especially worrisome, says Darrell Rigby, the Bain partner who headed the study: Of the executives around the world who downsized in 2008, some 88% plan more cuts this year.
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January 2009 Management Tools 2009: An Executive's Guide
Bain & Company 1/5/2009
by Darrell K. Rigby
Over the past three decades, management tools have become a common part of executives' lives. Whether trying to increase revenues, innovate, improve quality, increase efficiencies or plan for the future, executives have looked for tools to help them. The current environment of globalization and economic turbulence has increased the challenges executives face and, therefore, the need to find the right tools to meet these challenges. To help inform managers about the tools available to them, in 1993 Bain & Company launched a multiyear research project to gather facts about the use and performance of management tools. Every year or two since, we've conducted research to identify 25 of the most popular and pertinent management tools. Our efforts to understand the continually evolving management tools landscape have led us to add five tools to this year's guide-Decision Rights Tools, Downsizing, Online Communities, Price Optimization Tools and Voice of the Customer Innovation. Three of these tools are relatively new and two, Downsizing and Price Optimization Tools, may be increasingly relevant to managers in the current economic environment. For more information, please visit http://www.bain.com/tools.
November 2008Vision statements instilling values will motivate India Inc
The Economic Times 11/7/2008
by Sathosh Babu
Do CEOs and entrepreneurs really consider creating, communicating and operationalising vision and values important? In 1993, Bain & Company launched a multi-year research project to gather facts about the use and performance of management tools. Their objective was to help inform managers about the tools available to them and provide them with the information they need in order to identify, select, implement and integrate the right tools to improve their company's performance. On a scale of 1 to 5 (where 5 is 100% satisfaction) vision and mission scored around 4 showing high level of satisfaction in this survey from 1993 to 2007.
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October 2007 Bain's global 2007 management tools and trends survey
Strategy & Leadership 10/1/2007
by Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau
The purpose of this article is to survey and analyze current patterns of use in corporate settings of strategic management tools and techniques. The authors interview hundreds of corporate leaders to ascertain which tools executives say they find most effective.
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