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How Artificial Intelligence Will Supercharge Work

Skip Prichard

That’s what Chris Duffey, creative technologist says about this incredible technology revolutionizing industries the world over. In this world of product and pricing parity, the delivery of superior service experience has become the new marketing, and the new real competitive edge. The Electricity of Our Times. AI to the Rescue.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 2: Disaggregate.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases.

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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.” According to U.S.

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Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

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The Productivity Challenge of an Aging Global Workforce

Harvard Business Review

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% New research we conducted at the McKinsey Global Institute found that while this is a very tall order, it could be do-able. In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025.