First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

Review 70

Review Drucker Books Technology 70

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 8, 2012

McKinsey 7S Model. I find the McKinsey 7S framework particularly relevant model for organizational behavior. The CEO had a certain vision of the world, and thought development resources should be concentrated on pushing the core technology, as opposed to the usability features requested by customers. See the image).

Organization 36

Organization McKinsey Organizational Behavior System 36

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

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.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

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.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

N EW TECHNOLOGIES are shifting the way we work and interact. Jobs are being eliminated, and industries are being disrupted as we try to come to grips with how this technology is changing us and how we can use it. By concentrating on convincing people faster with fewer words, you are building a unique skill.” – The McKinsey Edge.

Open-book 216

Open-book Storytelling McKinsey Maturity 216

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

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.

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Union membership fell in 2012 to its lowest level since 1916, even in the wake of 30 years of wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and cutbacks in pensions and insurance coverage. What Really Happens When You Miss that Earnings Mark (McKinsey Quarterly). But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

A 2012 report on human capital from McKinsey added to the evidence, noting that organizations with top scores in employee motivation are about 60% more likely to be in the top quartile for overall business health. The next time Gallup or McKinsey do their polls, I''d like to see those engagement scores rise.

Herzberg 9

Herzberg McKinsey Human Resources Human Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated. They also earn a chance to appear at a MIX event and awards ceremony in 2012.

Management 12

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 12

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%. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Grose quotes IbisWorld researcher Jocelyn Phillips as pointing to the high-tech aspects of Clearblue’s test, also noting that young women might be more willing to shell out more money for such technology — the digital version costs about $5 more than the boring old blue and pink line version. Customers Global business Marketing'

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. Winners will also earn the chance to appear and tell their story at the MIX Live gathering scheduled for late spring 2012.

McKinsey 11

McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On the upside, similar calculations from WWF and McKinsey suggests that this pace of change –they endorse a 3% reduction in absolute emissions per year through 2020 – will actually be very profitable. in 2012, are now likely to occur four times as frequently due to ­human-induced climate change.”. So what’s really new this year?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

HCL Technologies has a prestigious leadership development program which executives have to apply for by putting together, among other things, a failure CV listing their biggest mistakes and what they learned from them. Advertising agency Grey has a Heroic Failure award in similar vein.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. One auto analyst declared 2012 the " Year of the Green Car ," with more high-MPG models, 500,000 hybrid sales in the U.S., It wasn't just energy.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10