Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Customer experience creators.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. In a recent McKinsey survey of the digital practices of more than 30 leading U.S. Technology'

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Manu Chandaria, CEO of Comcrat, the multibillion-dollar Kenyan steel, plastics, and aluminum company, is a longtime observer of the African business landscape. How One Company Saved On-Line Retail for Everyone (Ars Technica). Conjuring Up the Perfect Team (McKinsey Quarterly). Technology Review). Is that all?

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Retail Politics Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

This leaves no alternative but for companies, individuals, and governments to work in smarter ways. New research we conducted at the McKinsey Global Institute found that while this is a very tall order, it could be do-able. In an era of profound demographic change, another productivity revolution is a necessity.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Companies do need assets like computers, servers, networks, and software, but those purchases are just the start. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. economy and found a large and growing gap between sectors, and between companies within those sectors.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

McKinsey research shows that companies with advanced marketing and sales capabilities tend to grow their revenue two to three times more than the average company within their sector. The company shifted resources to its most lucrative markets, where two-thirds of the opportunity lay. In some industries (e.g.

Marketing 10

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. No African-owned company is in the Fortune 500. from 2000 to 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Four years ago, the company introduced a custom social network to support a more dynamic, transparent, and scalable approach to self-management. New lines of business created via the innovation engine account for 20% of the company's total revenue.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Companies are both operators and investors. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300 300 billion today.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. By many measures, the UK is ahead of the others in terms of its digital foundations and sophistication; for example, the proportion of retail in the U.K. position.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. With real people, moreover, 8% of internet users account for 85% of clicks on display ads, and 85% of social media updates come from less than 30% of a company’s social-media audience. Technology changes fast — remember MySpace and Friendster?

Media 8

Media Advertising Public Relations Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The widely accepted view that strategy and execution are separable activities sets companies up for failure in a fast-paced world. These companies’ strategies were viewed by their top executives as analytically sound; performance gaps were blamed on execution. Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images. Insight center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information?

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. A recent McKinsey & Co. For the gainfully underemployed, everyday is BYOD; their technologies are becoming their toolkits.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Companies are increasing investments as well. European companies are doing more than U.S. What Companies Are Doing.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9

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. And that’s segmentation.”

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Versions of this are ongoing at companies such as Netflix and Alibaba.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

When all their well-intentioned, but separate, solutions showed up at retail, customer satisfaction never improved. The leaders who scored highest on this skill were described as having innate curiosity and deep knowledge of their business context which they apply to wider economic, technological, and customer trends.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It was an odd year for green business, and it began with some mixed signals about how far companies were coming on sustainability. Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

According to a 2014 McKinsey report , the number of consuming households — i.e., households with annual income greater than $7,500 in purchasing power parity (PPP) — in the region is projected to double, to 125 million, by 2025. must take action, then set individual targets or commitments accordingly.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The best-performing companies seem to be pulling away from the rest, according to a growing body of research, and that fact explains a large part of the growth in inequality between individuals. And if you care about addressing inequality, you have to consider why companies rise and fall. Profits Are High, but Not for Everyone.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

According to estimates by McKinsey , if France (for example) were to shift into a higher gear and equal the UK’s digital state, its hypothetical economic gain could be about €100 billion. Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies. The UK leads Europe in “app economy” jobs.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8