Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. The McKinsey Podcast. Great for business and management insights from leading experts at McKinsey. The podcast is available on major platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as well as on the McKinsey Insights app.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

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.” Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? Marti Konstant . Hard skills require frequent updates.

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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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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.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

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. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Strategy as learning requires senior executives to engage in an ongoing dialogue with operations across all levels and departments.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Yet according to recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the U.S. economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. Sensitivity to operations. Creating greater value requires a multi-pronged approach.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. It’s gone digital.

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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. They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

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.

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Advertising Brand Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Bring on the quants.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. To accelerate that transformation, the company launched a social platform (called "Shift") to harvest ideas and inject agility into crucial projects. 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

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

JANUARY 31, 2013

According to recent McKinsey research (see " The $30 Trillion Decathlon "), consumption by developing economies could rise from $12 trillion annually in 2010 to $30 trillion in 2025, by which time these markets could account for nearly 70% of global demand for manufactured goods. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 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

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. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

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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.

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Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. This growth has prompted many to ponder whether humans are being pushed out of the workforce in favor of their robotic brethren.

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Frank and Oded Netzer (Wiley, 2022) Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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