Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 This raises some pertinent questions.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2011

Mendonca and featured by McKinzey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly (November 2007). Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Copyright (c) 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We have, for example, developed a technology to take used carpet material back and separate the bitumen backing from the yarn and sell it to the road and roofing industries. 1] McKinsey & Co., I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

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