IT Consulting

Our expert IT consultants and trainers use proven methodologies to help you optimize costs, reduce risk, and see a faster return on your IT investments.

A company's technology organization should support its business strategy, not constrain it. We focus first on the strategic needs of our clients' businesses to determine the technology capabilities needed to support their long-term goals. We help companies confidently address technology-related decisions and ensure their IT organizations and operating models are agile and effective, equipping them to cut through the noise of fleeting technology trends to create enduring results.

We bring a range of technology capabilities that help our online clients address four key business situations:

IT Strategy: Technology helps companies transform themselves and grow their work or business. We helps clients that are embarking on major growth or change that is heavily technology-dependent to identify the optimal future state of IT, aligned with business needs, and then jointly develop an implementation blueprint.

IT Performance Improvement: Underperforming IT negatively affects business performance. We work with companies seeking to address their IT efficiency problems to not only reduce prices, but to develop and improve capabilities that enable innovation and agility.

IT M&A: Technology-related synergies are key to successful acquisitions, mergers, divestitures and separations, but too often they are overlooked early in the deal. We help companies plan and manage the changes in their systems to accommodate changes in business structure.

IT Project Effectiveness: We help clients maximize the business results from major technology initiatives, including turnaround programs. We help executives evaluate the case for investment, set up projects for success—or place current projects on the right track—to ensure they capture value when implementing new systems and programs.

Bain Rebooting IT: Many companies face a mismatch when it comes to the ability of their IT to fulfill increasing customer expectations. Our experts help companies transform legacy IT to win in a digital environment using proprietary diagnostics, benchmarks, and a detailed and tested approach that helps to transform the existing IT operating model.

We bring a full range of experience and top-experts to each client engagement to help companies navigate their specific business situation. Our capabilities include strategic planning, business architecture development, digital and operating model challenges, IT organization and governance, big data analysis, IT sourcing and procurement, and IT metrics and dashboards. Our Private Equity group also performs due diligence on technology organizations when evaluating PE and M&A deals.