As AI infrastructure investment accelerates, the world must confront the next challenge: whether the economic value created ...

Providers and payers alike are investing in tech amid operating challenges, though near-term uplift is required as the bill ...

AI pricing is expanding beyond seat licensing as companies add new pricing models alongside current ones. The right meter—whether based on effort, output, or outcome—depends on the use and the ...

Most companies are stuck in gen AI experimentation, not transformation; real impact requires business redesign, not just tech deployment. The emerging leaders focus on fewer, high-value domains and ...

The big US shopping weekend still holds serious sway: Around 9% of Bain-defined retail holiday sales will land between Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year—the highest seasonal share we’ve seen ...

Beyond the Core is a classic that will be praised and read by business leaders who are serious about growing their companies. It picks up where Profit from the Core exits with both real and useful ...

What Is Zero-Based Budgeting? Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that takes a “blank sheet of paper” approach to resource planning. The zero-based budget process differs from traditional ...

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Amid early-year market disruptions, investments, exits, and fund-raising all dragged in the first half, and liquidity remained a major challenge. AI continued to loom as a disruptive factor but also ...

An excerpt from the introduction, "The Paradox of Growth." Growth creates complexity, and complexity is the silent killer of growth. This paradox explains why only about one company in nine has ...

In 2023, the space industry saw a string of multibillion-dollar deals announced in prior years officially close (see Figure 1). Among the largest of those were ViaSat’s $5.8 billion acquisition of ...

Strategic workforce planning (SWP) starts with where the business needs to be in six years and works backward to define the talent required to get there. Unlike annual headcount budgeting, SWP ...