Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging? A few have been utter failures.

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Kotter Hammer Champy Short-term 143

Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. Managers in the room learned little more than they already knew about the executive's personally. © 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist.

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Leadership McKinsey Sample Download 129

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 Everyone Innovates Every Day — Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson. The finalists have the opportunity to further develop their entries between now and the final deadline of September 5, 2011. Meanwhile, we hope you will explore the Management 2.0

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling McKinsey 14

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.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Franchising speeds growth and entails less capital, but the risks include inconsistent execution and inefficient inventory management.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15

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.

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Minto How To McKinsey Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. are picking up steam.”

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Media McKinsey ROI CRM 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. Meanwhile, according to a recent article in The Financial Times , where a minimum threshold was adopted, there has been a marked improvement in gender balance. Both presidential candidates portray the U.S.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5

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How To Competitive Intelligence Information Technology McKinsey 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. Social-specific skills ; like community management, social customer service and monitoring and a bunch more. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. Simply giving them permission to take control of their priorities — focusing on the “management” portion of time management — seems to lift some of the tension from the room. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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Audience Covey Stress Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. India, where about 60% of adults are unbanked according to McKinsey, is also a cash-heavy economy for transactions and high in its use of gold as a store of value. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. How can this be?

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Here are three steps — based on both my academic research and my consulting work — that managers can take to increase discussion, decrease fear of saying the “wrong thing,” and avoid sidestepping conflict: 1. Be proactive about inclusion efforts.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. 1] McKinsey & Co., Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011.

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

To be sure, a number of highly successful American companies have managed to pivot to new directions while keeping their R&D close to home. A 2011 McKinsey study showed that smaller and younger firms are wary of global R&D plays. Apple’s design studio is nestled snugly in its Cupertino, California, campus.

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Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 82