N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H. Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag'

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Digital transformation managers. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? And what skills will matter to you and your organization in the future? . “If

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

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. The challenge is whether the university sector is going to be agile enough to respond to it. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 114

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts, complements his blog with his Leadership Biz Cafe podcast. Great for globally-focused management and business research insights. The McKinsey Podcast. Lead Change.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

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.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This was emphasized by a survey from McKinsey a few years ago which highlighted a 15% gap emerging between large and small companies in terms of the adoption of technologies such as industrial robotics. Internalize the costs of automation (and their benefits) – With a particular focus on the total cost of ownership (TCO).

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Story by Jim Lavoie. Story by Frédéric Leconte.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. We launched the Management 2.0 We launched the Management 2.0 That goes for both how you design a disruptive initiative and how you tell your story. Is it Deep?

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Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

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. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. Even when large U.S.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that this change alone can improve employee productivity by up to 25%. McKinsey estimates that only 6% of companies have truly integrated Enterprise 2.0

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Identify and stratify patients by disease severity to manage population health. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Insurance Video Project Long-term 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.

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Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 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 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8