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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Monitor & Co.,

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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'Woman Up' (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female.

Strategy Driven

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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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. 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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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, is leading the charge at his Fortune 500 company. And current recycling technology is limited. In 2011, their annual sales approached $1 billion in remanufactured goods.