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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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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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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

Through a closed loop system the products are returned and the materials either recycled to make new high value products or put back into the earth through the biosphere. Signing up to Cradle-to-Cradle has forced us to learn how to develop closed loop systems where our products are designed for disassembly after being returned.

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Catering to the Self-Expressive Chinese Consumer

Harvard Business Review

According to the latest McKinsey survey, 35% of respondents in China believe that companies that market products across a range of categories are more trustworthy than those that focus on just one or two segments. However, recent trends could force marketers to rethink that strategy.

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

Strategy Driven

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. Marketing Sales Social media'

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

The problem cuts much deeper than that; it's systemic and it's global. The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 The market has huge profit potential.