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Alvarez & Marsal, the global professional services firm, unveiled AI-Enabled Zero-Based Optimization — AI-ZBO — on June 30, 2026, targeting private equity clients seeking faster EBITDA improvement.
The New York-based firm says the offering applies artificial intelligence to a clean-sheet redesign of priority workflows, with the stated aim of reducing rework, compressing cycle time, and delivering what it calls durable EBITDA impact.
What the AI-ZBO Offering Does Zero-based optimization is a discipline that rebuilds processes from scratch rather than layering improvements onto legacy workflows.
Alvarez & Marsal's AI-ZBO embeds applied AI into that methodology at the design stage, meaning the technology shapes how workflows are constructed rather than being added as an afterthought.
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