HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . Here we bring you examples of some professional women’s well paid jobs where they are gaining traction and are earning well: Pharmacists. Percentage of women: 52%.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 94

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 94

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 82

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 82

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Corporate Purpose Example: Salesforce – Salesforce understands its role in our changing world.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Corporate Purpose Example: Salesforce – Salesforce understands its role in our changing world.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

No one likes to feel as if they’re being watched, yet with technology continuing to mature, we have found ourselves entrenched in a marketing machine that has become far too intimate for anyone’s liking. Data-Driven Marketing. This seemingly limitless digital economy has brought with it feelings of overexposure.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Storytelling ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

Technology 8

Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

Marketing 9

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 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. Critical contractors.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. ” In that vein, last week’s layoffs surely were a response to changing near-term market conditions.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In 2015, there were 7 million jobs that required some level of coding skills , and programming jobs are growing 12% faster than market average. It’s now time for business, particularly technology companies, to harness the power of technology to help turn the tide. Increasing access to job retraining programs for adults.

Company 8

Company Training Technology McKinsey 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Enhance customer service.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

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

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. Sponsored by SAS.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 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 9

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. 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. In Nigeria, for example, SABMiller developed a new brand, Hero. Add to Cart.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. Consider some sobering analysis from McKinsey based on an analysis of over 750 occupations. “Quite frankly, the trope that China copies the U.S.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. For an extreme example, take Chobani. The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Research by McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Global Institute shows that digitization is having the same radical impact.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. People flock to Facebook, for example, because most of their friends and family are on it, which in turn allows Facebook to collect a large amount of data about us, and attract advertisers. That is because networks are rarely exclusive.

McCallum 9

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Soon she will probably be booking appointments, analyzing markets, maybe even buying and selling stocks. Sponsored by DXC Technology. market for corporate advice alone is nearly $60 billion. For example, women in business are described in less positive terms than men and receive less helpful feedback. Insight Center.

Consultative 8

Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. New research by the McKinsey Global institute suggests that roughly 15% of the global workforce could be displaced by 2030 in a midpoint scenario, but that the jobs likely created will make up for those lost. Other options are also less than desirable.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Yet, as obviously logical as that finding turns out to be, McKinsey was right to frame it as counterintuitive.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Will robo-advisors disrupt corporate capital allocation the same way they have personal capital allocation? will grow to U.S. $5

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. How's this for counter-intuitive? trillion annually.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The development of new technologies is complex and challenging, and to come up with the next big innovation, businesses must think — and operate — in new ways. Facebook and Salesforce.com, for example, conduct much of their R&D locally. Like a lot of young digital companies in the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

Purchasing, for example, is moving to automated bots, with 15%–20% of total spend already sourced through e-platforms. Leading companies are experimenting with what these technologies can do for them, typically around transactional processes at early stages of the customer journey. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Development 8

Development Technology Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

One of the challenges facing market leaders is that transformational trends are only obvious when it is too late. To spot transformational trends early, companies need to follow the guidance of Wharton professor George Day and long-time McKinsey & Co. It is a disciplined operator, so this wasn't a junket either.

Trends 12

Trends McKinsey Constraint Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Chief among these, in my mind, is the threat to free market competition. Today, we see companies building their IP not solely on technology, but rather on proprietary data and its derivatives. As ever-increasing amounts of data are collected by businesses, new opportunities arise to build new markets and products based on this data.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Engineering McKinsey Library 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

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. See, for example, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Media 8

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 8