HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Often used interchangeably, reskilling, and upskilling have different meanings. Upskilling refers to advancing within your current function. These were code words for marketing automation.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale.” ” This is the closest thing to real research Hughes found, but does that mean that everything short of complete success is a failure?

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Kotter Champy Hammer Short-term 143

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. When I later became head of McKinsey Asia, he helped me see that I had to hire a solid COO to work with me—which substantially increased my leadership effectiveness in that bigger role.”

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

For example, when consultants at McKinsey surveyed 1,546 executives in 2009, 38% of respondents said “the transformation was ‘completely’ or ‘mostly’ successful at improving performance, compared with 30 percent similarly satisfied that it improved their organization’s health.”

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Independent contractors have become ubiquitous.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S. The Chinese are also becoming more aware of fashion. survey, only 12% of consumers said they keep abreast of the latest fashions. Three years later, the number had jumped to 28%.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

According to the latest McKinsey survey, 35% of respondents in China believe that companies that market products across a range of categories are more trustworthy than those that focus on just one or two segments.

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Brand McKinsey Marketing Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While this CEO's comment accurately portrays the general state of affairs, I agree with Dominic Barton of McKinsey that companies can attract and cultivate investors interested in the creation of value over the long term. Globally, these asset owners manage significant sums, exceeding $50 trillion at the end of 2009. over this period.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

To begin answering that question, a trio of British researchers reporting in the European Business Review , compared the performance of 48 British employee-owned firms to 178 comparable traditionally structured businesses in good times (2004-2007) and (very) bad (2008-2009). and Europe — from domestic consumption.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Bottom-up Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

trillion ($426 billion) in 2009 — twice as much as it was in 2000. Max Magni is the head of McKinsey & Company's consumer practice in Greater China, and Yuval Atsmon is an associate principal in the firm's Shanghai office. This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9 It's not difficult to guess what's holding marketers back.

Marketing 12

Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Rachman in 2009 : “Big is beautiful again.”) David Skilling , a former New Zealand government official and McKinsey consultant who now advises small-country governments and companies from a base in Singapore, has spent as much time thinking and writing about the strengths and weaknesses of small states as anybody.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Politics Globalization GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Grexit would further restrict available capital, shatter the fragile banking sector, and increase the investment gap, which, as McKinsey’s recent study shows , is the key issue. Paul Krugman, the least equivocal voice in the crisis, famously pointed out in 2009 what he saw as the root cause of the demise of economics.

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Crisis Policies Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Share your story or idea by entering the HBR/McKinsey Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. That brings us to the third big shift in capitalism: its changing geography. These are now not only high-income but slow growth and aging.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. What We Actually Measured — and the Limits of Our Knowledge.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 McKinsey estimates the total economic value of circular business practices at $2 trillion globally.

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Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For example, Scott Blackburn, an Army veteran and former McKinsey & Company partner was paired with Chief of Staff Robert Snyder, who joined VA in 2009 after a 26-year career in the Army, to lead the transformation and reorganization initiative.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8