The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

Technology 65

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 65

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N.

Blog 80

Blog Globalization Review Innovation 80

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. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. 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

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. However, a growing amount of data from Gallup , Bain & Company , the Wall Street Journal , McKinsey , and others is indicating that supervisors play a key role in workforce engagement. Or are they?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship. A recent McKinsey global survey found that just 26 percent of surveyed executives say that key change initiatives were successful at sustainably improving the organization.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. which is spurring rank-and-file workers to view themselves as innovators — a tough thing for many corporations to get right. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind.,

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. Searching the web or email will decline; already, the top five search engines saw traffic declines of up to 31% in a study done over the period December 2013 – May 2014. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. This prescient piece won the McKinsey Award, given each year to the HBR article judged to be the most significant — the first of several that Garvin took home. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Based on similar numbers, both McKinsey and PwC UK calculated how fast we must reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy ( PwC's number is 5% per year until 2050 ). Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Five Questions For 2013.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 11