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. . Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Marketing and Sales Manager.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. The most essential time management technology for increasing your productivity is calendar scheduling software. Calendar Management.

Tools 133

Tools Productivity Products Company 133

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

The latest trend in last mile delivery management focuses on the localization of distribution, where the goal is to leverage the existing infrastructure and optimize it through technology. With the omnichannel approach to e-commerce gaining ground, there is a major need for distribution centers to be located near urban markets.

Transportation 50

Transportation Parcell Supply Chain Management 50

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. A diverse workforce is good for your business. Pay and Benefits.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

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. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today.

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. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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 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. will fall short of this goal by 5 million workers.

Company 8

Company Training Technology McKinsey 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. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 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. 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 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

Content 8

Content Survey Talent Management McKinsey 8

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. A diverse workforce is good for your business.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He’s bullish, for instance, on Nigeria, and thinks Western companies entering African markets should focus less on establishing political ties and more on winning hearts, as the Chinese do, by building roads, airports, and sports stadiums. Conjuring Up the Perfect Team (McKinsey Quarterly). Technology Review). Is that all?

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Retail Politics Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. How technology is changing the way we work. But where and how do you start? Insight Center.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

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. Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. will grow to U.S. $5

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

Leading companies are experimenting with what these technologies can do for them, typically around transactional processes at early stages of the customer journey. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. We found that 40% of time spent on sales work activities can be automated by adapting current technologies.

Development 8

Development Technology Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

McKinsey & Co. If not, there are three things you should do to make sure that your salespeople understand and implement your strategy as you intended it, and that their actions are in line with your goals, not just the target they want to make. There’s a reason you chose those target markets or customer types.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. What Policy Makers Should Consider.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. Consider: The most common metrics for evaluating social media are likes, tweets, reviews, and click-through-rates (CTRs) for online ads — not cause-and-effect links between the medium and market results. There is justifiable skepticism about this data.

Media 8

Media Advertising Public Relations Forrester 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

Self-aware 72

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 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

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Unexpected changes in technology, customer preferences, and regulation can disrupt even the best-run operation. That’s quite a mismatch.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. What are our markets? Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. These are surface-level, counterfeit solutions, and they do more harm than good. Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. Focusing on a few priorities helps these executives ensure successful execution and avoid overwhelming the system with competing goals.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 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? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Bring on the quants.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

At the same time, we wanted to enable our co-producing partners to work with local educators, writers, and producers to craft the specific early childhood educational goals unique to their own countries. According to Rosenfeld, "unlike most of the other markets in which we co-produce, Sesame Street had never been broadcast in India.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15