The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In The Ecosystem Economy , McKinsey’s Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz paint a picture of the future of education that will see the ways in which we learn transformed. As the labor market loosens, however, there is a growing call for recruitment to be based more on skills than on credentials.

Education 110

Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 110

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. The concern across the EU has only risen as China has appeared to have considerably more success. Digital dominance. Lagging behind.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. When building a team, you need people that can actually be successful when the pressure is on.

Innovation 227

Innovation Team How To Uncertainty 227

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. Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm.

Company 101

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 101

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” Learn how to support colleagues and be flexible with them to enable success. The labor market is skewed in favor of the employee. Training Remote Managers. Working with a hybrid workforce.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. While the HR team is mainly responsible for employee retention, it takes an entire organizational effort to make it a success. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

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

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

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. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. Campus Recruiting.

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

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

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. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. Campus Recruiting.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

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

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Yet they also see diversity in the workplace as having very little impact on the company’s success. 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

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

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. This generation is quickly gaining steam as a force capable of determining your company’s success or failure. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market.

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. This generation is quickly gaining steam as a force capable of determining your company’s success or failure. . It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market.

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. Increasing access to job retraining programs for adults.

Company 8

Company Training Technology McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+).

McCallum 12

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

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 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This means in an industry of 100 firms, you can expect a new firm every 17 years.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

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

AUGUST 27, 2015

Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. Sound familiar? An increasing number of U.S. There are many.

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. New research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute makes it clear that Africa faces real economic headwinds including declining investment and savings, and rising government indebtedness. from 2000 to 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 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

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms.

Govindarajan 74

Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 74

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

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. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. Ambition is crucial: Research from McKinsey finds that most low-performing research-intensive U.S. Yet, there is a problem.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 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

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

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

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. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

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. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Back pet charities, not those with a strong track record.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. The Talent Gap in Big Data. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. Speed alone is insufficient.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

Minto 13

Minto How To McKinsey Software 13