Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. Managers in the room learned little more than they already knew about the executive's personally. © 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist.

Leadership 129

Leadership McKinsey Sample Download 129

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 They represent multibillion-dollar global companies, government agencies, software companies, cement makers, eyeglass manufacturers, retailers, insurance providers, and tomato processors. Meanwhile, we hope you will explore the Management 2.0

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. Sponsored by SAS.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Some companies, like Zara, are present only in the 30 biggest cities. The Chinese are also becoming more aware of fashion.

Apparel 13

Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This admittedly controversial step comes after nearly a decade of attempts to induce companies to voluntarily boost the number of women in boardrooms and the higher ranks of businesses. France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. since 2010.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. are picking up steam.” The amount spent, annually, by U.S.

Media 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

Minto 14

Minto How To McKinsey Software 14

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. Social-specific skills ; like community management, social customer service and monitoring and a bunch more. 79% of companies use, or are imminently planning to use, social media.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

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 Big Data Demands Big Context.

How To 8

How To Competitive Intelligence Information Technology McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. But companies will need new positions as well.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Using her private sector savvy and entrepreneurial mind-set, she was able to more than double the number of California companies that support policies for improving children’s health and education. government’s IT spending is much bigger than the R&D budget of the world’s most successful company,” Rahul points out.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. Simply giving them permission to take control of their priorities — focusing on the “management” portion of time management — seems to lift some of the tension from the room. Companies need to pay attention.

Audience 8

Audience Covey Stress Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But even great management cannot protect these airlines.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

” And many people of color in predominantly white companies may avoid these conversations out of fear of being seen as a complainer — or worse. population growth between 2011 and 2050. Company-wide discussions about race have the potential to be tense, and getting defensive is the quickest way to halt progress.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Like a lot of young digital companies in the U.S., However, in order to grow, companies need to draw on the world’s best knowledge, wherever it lives geographically. The more software-driven the company, the greater the reach into global R&D networks.

Globalization 8

Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. At the most successful companies, addressing the skills-gap was rated a top five priority, whereas at less successful companies it fell much lower down the list.

TCO 87

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87