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What Are Bain Templates?

Bain Templates are strategic management tools developed by Bain & Company to tackle intricate business challenges. They go beyond mere frameworks—these templates drive decisive action and foster agility in high-stakes environments, ensuring leaders can pivot swiftly and effectively.

Bain & Company is one of the "big 3" management consulting firms (also referred to as MBB) and likewise one of the world's most prestigious consulting firms. The consultancy is also known as among the best places to work, according to annual rankings by Glassdoor and Consulting Magazine. Bain advises Fortune 500 clients primarily on the functional areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Strategy, Operations, Customer Loyalty, Market Analysis, Digital Transformation, and Product Strategy.

Large consulting firms, such as Bain, maintain internal knowledge management systems that capture and organize the firm's intellectual capital. Historically, Bain's flagship repository was the Global Experience Center (GXC), which centralized casework, industry insights, client deliverables, and capability frameworks into a unified portal. Today, Bain's primary knowledge management system is known as Iris, a modern platform that enables consultants to search, contribute, and collaborate on Bain's extensive library of frameworks, templates, benchmark data, case studies, and proprietary methodologies across practices and regions.

These document repositories promote collaboration, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and help ensure that the firm's knowledge and expertise are leveraged effectively across different client engagements and teams. They are a key differentiator that allow firms like Bain to outcompete other organizations.

Flevy is essentially a public version of these consulting knowledge management libraries. The Bain templates and Bain PowerPoints listed above on this page are framework presentations of the same caliber as those developed and used by Bain consultants. These frameworks are widely applicable across different projects, addressing general topics like problem solving, structured communication, strategic thinking, project management, etc. For frameworks and resources catered to a specific management topic, such as Change Management, Process Improvement, Business Transformation, etc., scroll down to the "Other Management Topics" section.

The majority of the materials found on Flevy are developed by seasoned executives and consultants with 20+ years of experience with backgrounds that include McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, A.T. Kearney, Capgemini, IBM Global Services, EY, PwC, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman.