Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Analytical business people who are ready, able, and eager to use better information and analyses in their work, as well as to work with the professionals on analytics projects. You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs.

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How To Competitive Intelligence Information Technology McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Even within the active-user segments, there is evidence that comprehension and retention decline significantly when information comes online. are picking up steam.” See, for example, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

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. A 2011 Google study found that, of the eight criteria which make a great manager, deep technical expertise was the least important.

Minto 13

Minto How To McKinsey Software 13

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. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

Audience 8

Audience Covey Stress Self-aware 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. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Here are three steps — based on both my academic research and my consulting work — that managers can take to increase discussion, decrease fear of saying the “wrong thing,” and avoid sidestepping conflict: 1. Be proactive about inclusion efforts.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8