As executives shift gears amid economic worries, they
are changing the tools they use to manage their
businesses.
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. pdf 2009