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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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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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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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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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'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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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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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. And current recycling technology is limited. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0