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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

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. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Copyright (c) 2011.

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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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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

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.”

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

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. Information & technology Talent management' In Analytics at Work , we call the latter group “ analytical amateurs.”

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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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Africa's Growth Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates. One such is General Electric.

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How to Make Your Big Idea Really Happen

Harvard Business Review

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.

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