HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

HR has thrived during this difficult time and helped in transforming organizations where the function is well led, has strong senior stakeholder support, has prioritized leadership development , and has already commenced a digital transformation journey. times more likely to report organizational outperformance, McKinsey research has shown.

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McKinsey Agility Learning-by-Doing Organization 98

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Magnone, Christopher J. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

We need a new and more agile approach. McKinsey reports that eight out of ten time strategists focus on known hypothesis—opportunities that have been examined in the past or are already evident. The data you are using can’t be captured in a fixed plan or you’ll have an excellent strategy for the year before.

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Agility Uncertainty Competitive Advantage McKinsey 157

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. Organizational agility.

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Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 102

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In The Ecosystem Economy , McKinsey’s Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz paint a picture of the future of education that will see the ways in which we learn transformed. government to work with businesses to develop a national online digital skills platform. Salesforce is urging the U.K. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 111

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated 10 of our favorite leadership blogs and podcasts for 2022 on leadership strategy and development. Great for deep dives into modern leadership development challenges. Check this out: The Future’s Top Workplaces Will Rely on Manager Development. The McKinsey Podcast.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Software and app developers.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. They already report that the domestic supplier base is hollowed out, depriving them of the agility they need to respond quickly to new market opportunities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Another: During high-level internal discussions about worker salaries and pensions, the company's HR director, rather than put out the type of opaque statements that are typical in most companies, blogged about developments as they occurred, generating much positive sentiment among employees. into the core.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations. Emotional Agility.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

Insurance 10

Insurance Video Project Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. Meanwhile, engineers had developed software to fool the regulators — postponing the inevitable. See these articles by Jeff Gothelf , McKinsey , and the Boston Consulting Group.).

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

To get there, brands will have to leave behind organizations and thinking built solely around the campaign model, and instead adopt the defining characteristics of the real-time, data-driven newsroom — a model that's prolific, agile and audience-centric. The campaign model, relatively speaking, is miserly.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Content Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. Software company Rite-Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art "innovation engine" to unearth the organization's hidden genius. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. Bring on the quants.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

At McKinsey, we are conducting our own research into the impact of automation on jobs and organizations and recently published a brief paper previewing some of our findings. Automation also enables massively scaled organizations that can grow rapidly yet remain agile and responsive.

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Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. David Roth and his teammates were frustrated by the endemic prioritization of short-term priorities at the expense of exploring, developing, and investing in new ideas. Define the dogma.

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. As important as it is for employees to feel heard and respected by their leaders, it's the relationship between peers that generates the agility, inventiveness, and engagement at the heart of a truly social organization.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

When Fernández-Aráoz worked for McKinsey in Europe in the 1980s, he wanted to move back to Argentina so he let the office leader know that he’d be leaving the job. He got a great reference from his former boss at McKinsey who talked about his openness and loyalty to the firm.

Short-term 8

Short-term McKinsey Long-term Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win. At the McKinsey Global Institute, we modeled these trends and found that peak demand for major commodities like oil, thermal coal, and iron ore is in sight and may occur as soon as 2020 for coal and 2025 for oil.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8