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James Allen formerly led our Global Strategy practice, is the founder of the firm's Customer Strategy & Marketing practice and is a member of the Consumer Products and Technology practices. In addition, he is a co-chair of Bain Futures, our proprietary global think tank.
- The Firm of the Future
James Allen, who leads Bain's Global Strategy practice,...
- Allen Granzberg
Allen Granzberg is a member of our Mergers and Acquisitions,...
- The Firm of the Future
Aug 28, 2012 · James Allen is an advisory partner in Bain's London office and is recognised as a leading… · Experience: Bain & Company · Education: Harvard Business School · Location: Strand · 500+...
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- London, England, United Kingdom
- Bain & Company
- What Will Be Different About The Firm of The Future?
- Scale and Customer Intimacy
- Professional Managers vs. Mission-Critical Roles
- Assets vs. Ecosystems
- Capital Gets A Reset
- Engine 1, Engine 2
- The Leader of Tomorrow
Our experience with clients in many industries around the world points to five emerging themes for leadership teams: scale and customer intimacy; professional managers vs. mission-critical roles; assets vs. ecosystems; capital gets a reset; and Engine 1, Engine 2. In each area, we see many examples of change today, but we view these merely as green...
Some companies become synonymous with an era and help to define its characteristics. General Motors—the first company to create a multidivisional structure—exemplified the “professional management” era. GE, with its stock price rising nearly fortyfold under Jack Welch, typified the shareholder primacy era. Today, it is tech-based disrupters such as...
The best companies have articulated not just a higher purpose but also a bold, insurgent mission around how they will serve customers. This, too, is a central element in their business, culture and people strategies. Having defined a clear mission, a firm can then identify the roles that are most central to delivering it. We call these the mission-...
Turn the clock back a century, and you find that many leading firms were vertically integrated. Henry Ford famously owned the farms that raised the sheep that provided wool for automobile seat covers—plus the iron ore and coal freighters that fed Ford’s sprawling River Rouge manufacturing complex. Firms such as Ford created an ecosystem under one c...
The shareholder primacy era evolved during the late 1970s in part from a conviction that management and shareholder interests had become misaligned—the classic agency problem. Managers were undisciplined in spending investors’ money, pursuing profitless growth and wasteful diversification, as they owned few shares and had little of their wealth tie...
Companies have always pursued innovation in their core business. Clayton Christensen has called these “sustaining innovations”; they bring incremental improvements in performance or value. But what about the innovations that upend an entire industry? They are all around, even if leaders sometimes find it hard to believe it will happen to them. To t...
Leading and working in a firm of the future will feel different. It will sometimes feel as if you are venture capitalists, thinking in terms of payback over five to ten years or longer. Venture capitalists expect many of their investments to fail and that they will make their money on the few that turn out to be home runs. When they evaluate invest...
James Allen is a partner in Bain & Company's London office and a coleader of Bain's Global Strategy practice. He has served a variety of leadership roles at Bain and is the founder of the Bain Founder’s Mentality 100, a global network of high-growth companies mostly led by their founders.
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Allen Granzberg is a member of our Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures and Healthcare & Life Sciences practices. He leads our M&A and Healthcare work in the Americas. Allen has led 10+ deals across the M&A value chain, from integrations to spin-offs totaling $100B+.
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London, England, United Kingdom. Co-Founder and Head of Mechanical Engineering. Numerous investor pitches and other presentations undertaken in UK, France and Netherlands. Work conducted...
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