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. The report suggests that while the pandemic has undoubtedly been difficult for many, it also provides an opportunity to transform and become stronger, better businesses.

Company 98

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 98

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” As of June 2021, according to Quantum Workplace , 30% of employees considered themselves hybrid employees and 35% of employees reported working remotely. The labor market is skewed in favor of the employee.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. McKinsey followed up with a 2018 report that echoed the finding of the first: diversity is good for the bottom line. Diversity in the workplace is good for the bottom line.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The labor force participation rates are quite astounding, with Trading Economics reporting that the numbers have decreased to 62.7 Chamber of Commerce reports that there are currently 9.5 Viser’s respondents reported that 89 percent of employees have experienced burnout and 70 percent would consider quitting because of it.

Participative 52

Participative Uncertainty Long-term Trends 52

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

In essence, this is the process by which existing technologies and processes are combined or deployed in new ways. There are also initiatives such as the European Union’s European Institute for Innovation and Technology , which aims to encourage and support the fertilization of ideas and innovation across the European Union.

Diversity 121

Diversity Entrepreneur Innovation Gordon 121

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. Whether it’s a fresher role or one that requires experience, Qualee reports that it takes a new hire approximately eight months to reach their full productivity. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

That’s what Chris Duffey, creative technologist says about this incredible technology revolutionizing industries the world over. In this world of product and pricing parity, the delivery of superior service experience has become the new marketing, and the new real competitive edge. The Electricity of Our Times. AI to the Rescue.

Content 95

Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 95

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 2: Disaggregate.

Disaggregation 82

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Gallup surveyed new graduates and published the findings in their report “ How Millennials Want to Work and Live.”

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

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

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

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

Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. They witnessed several historical events before entering the job market. Reach your diversity goals.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Gallup surveyed new graduates and published the findings in their report “ How Millennials Want to Work and Live.”

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

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

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. 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. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The job market simply doesn't function the way a market should. Research by the McKinsey Global Institute predicts that by 2020, the U.S. That's why at ManpowerGroup we believe that investment ought to focus on youth, who are now entering the market and who most need training. labor market become more efficient?

Marketing 11

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 11

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.

EPS 8

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. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

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 10

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In this piece, James Kerr tells the story of Swiss watchmakers, who invented Quartz technology but didn't think anyone would want it. When the Japanese jumped on the innovation, the Swiss lost 50,000 jobs, and watched as their share of the timepiece market plunged from 65% to 10%. It’s 9:00am. By Carla Yengo-Kahn.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Globalization Media Review 12

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The fourth industrial revolution of intense technology has come with doomsday predictions for the workforce in certain industries. Earlier studies like the 2017 Mckinsey report have revealed that almost 50 percent of work activities were already automated, especially in the manufacturing sector.

Report 90

Report Education McKinsey Software 90

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

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

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. are picking up steam.”

Media 9

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 9

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. economy.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Why don't we get her a toy that encourages that interest so she'll be more familiar with the technology as she gets older?". I joined McKinsey & Co. Consultants could pour through those reports to find critical data that our clients couldn't access. blame Holly!). Look at the seemingly prosaic world of consulting.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

The White House recently released a report about the danger of big data in our lives. 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. However, big data holds many other risks.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Engineering McKinsey Library 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. 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

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%.

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8