Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

ROIC 62

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

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.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. Information & technology Talent management'

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. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Independent retailers are savvy operators and are eager to join the fray if given the opportunity.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In other words, there’s now a higher volume of information, capital, people, and trade flows between countries. Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In other words, there’s now a higher volume of information, capital, people, and trade flows between countries. Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

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