Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” And technology? Africa is the next growth market.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While costs and expertise are both elements that robotics as a service can help to address by making investments a matter of operational expenses rather than capital expenses, and the maintenance of the technology outsourced to the provider, there is still a strategic divide in many smaller businesses.

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 84

HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Some researchers argue that innovative technologies could create more wealth, increase productivity and diverse jobs in the end by eliminating unpleasant rote work. A recent McKinsey study estimated that as many as half of current jobs could be automated, and predicted 400 million jobs worldwide will be automated into nothingness by 2030.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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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.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. I conducted a two-week, six-hour workday experiment with my team at Collective Campus, an innovation accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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