HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Training Industry research found that over half of learning and development (L&D) professionals have retooled or repurposed learning programs in response to the Pandemic.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

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. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. The existential difficulties posed by Covid were also reflected, with 43.8%

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Exit interviews are a key way to identify why an employee wasn’t able to settle into an organization so it can be addressed in the next round of hiring Ensuring a job description accurately represents a role can help ensure candidates know what they are signing up for Explain company policies, probation criteria, salaries, etc.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Participative management. Change management.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

The alarming nature of the statistic understandably triggered considerable discussion, with various other bodies, from the OECD to McKinsey producing similar research complete with their own predictions for the future of work. Mobility support would also help people move to where jobs are. go over relatively old ground one more time.

Technology 71

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 71

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative. percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. The next involves assessing the conditions you work under and reframing your policies and systems to best support your employees.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. New policy manuals had to be written. Pretty well!

Follow-up 147

Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. The Three Approaches. Two Success Stories.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart.

Management 15

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term. If they do, as many CEOs believe, this is a serious indictment of current corporate governance arrangements and has important policy implications.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Short-term Long-term Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

McKinsey has been studying what kind of work is most adaptable to automation. Such new thinking will generate a whole new human resource development agenda, one quite probably emphasizing those innate human capacities that can provide a renewed strategy for success that is both technological and human.

Creativity 13

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 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. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Do you work for a firm where managers think employees really have to work (what is called) “full time”? Around the time of the dot-com boom in 2000, founders Liann Eden and Dena McCallum saw that many of their ex-McKinsey colleagues would love to continue doing some consulting work, just not full time. Most certainly not.

McCallum 9

McCallum Competitive Advantage McKinsey Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

Content 8

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey Survey Content Company 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Juliano Howard T.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. It's not enough to change one company. It's crucial to advance the entire ecosystem.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that this change alone can improve employee productivity by up to 25%. McKinsey estimates that only 6% of companies have truly integrated Enterprise 2.0

Media 8

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

New research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that every U.S. The United States is one of the worst-performing developed nations in the world on women’s representation in politics. state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. Half of U.S. One in four U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies McKinsey Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As my experiences from being a rookie accountant to a managing director at an investment bank have taught me, conversations between women have massive benefits for the individual and the organization. According to a 2016 McKinsey report, Women in the Workplace , white men make up 36% of entry-level corporate jobs, and white women make up 31%.

Power 8

Power McKinsey Attrition Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

asks Foreign Policy. Delivering Large-Scale IT Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Value (McKinsey Quarterly). First, don't just focus on the budget and the schedule; make sure you're also managing strategy and key stakeholders. And finally, double-down on stringent project management. "Want to lead the free world?"

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Previous McKinsey research has highlighted a strong correlation between leadership performance and organizational health, itself a strong predictor of a robust bottom line. At McKinsey, we’ve been working on this issue with our own colleagues as well as with business leaders. Look at policies covering travel, email (e.g.,

Leadership 8

Leadership McKinsey Stress Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Using her private sector savvy and entrepreneurial mind-set, she was able to more than double the number of California companies that support policies for improving children’s health and education. The Fuse Corps executive fellowship comprises one month of intense professional development and eleven months working on a public sector project.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Shouldn’t we be developing more options outside of traditional employment that do just that? A recent McKinsey report suggests that alternative work platforms may unlock trillions in future economic value by using their data to better source, match, and deploy workers. A Mercury News article noted that Sen.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. Photo by Christine Roy. billion by 2030 — and yet there will still be a shortage of skilled workers.

Succession 12

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

But Chinese employees have learned that the management skills and systems in multinationals in China come in many flavors, from the exceptional to the abysmal. I have lived in Beijing since 1990 and hired and managed many hundreds of Chinese people over the years. Culling your management ranks should include expat and local managers.

Globalization 8

Globalization Operations McKinsey Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. bribes and kickbacks).

Company 10

Company Survey Finance Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In the case of South Bend, that means Mayor Pete Buttigieg , a former Rhodes scholar and McKinsey consultant, who has been known to challenge city workers to tackle problems so thorny that they can only be solved with new kinds of thinking. We are certainly not saying that all cities are well managed.

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 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. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8