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.” Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Marti Konstant .

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

Human Resources 469

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. Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

Disaggregation 82

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

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

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Integration. into the core.

Media 8

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

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. Take, for example, the role of a marketing manager or executive in a consumer products company.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

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. Luckily, Susan David and Christina Congleton explain how you can learn to do a better job of managing your thoughts and emotions in Emotional Agility.

Management 15

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 15

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. A Unique Approach to Marketing Coca-Cola in Hong Kong.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them. It’s gone digital. trillion in 2014 alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

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. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 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.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

Especially since what was true in the job market 20 years ago — even two years ago — is not necessarily gospel now. And the market is constantly changing. He got a great reference from his former boss at McKinsey who talked about his openness and loyalty to the firm. But how can you know whom to trust?

Short-term 8

Short-term McKinsey Long-term Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions.

Agility 56

Agility Process Management McKinsey 56

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 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. Almost all successful management innovation looks to new principles, such as biological systems, democracy, markets, and, of course, the Web to bypass the current operating model.

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

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7 It will provide capacity in markets that struggle with labor capacity either through the difficulty of the work itself or the cost pressures they face. The need for investment in technology.

TCO 87

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87