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. 5: Analyze.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Connect Then Lead.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. Yet according to recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the U.S. Other sectors are barely keeping pace.

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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. Unfortunately, most of these efforts will fail.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Whatever their approach, the providers shared a common goal of excellence and efficiency in patient care—and a willingness to innovate to get there. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. In an ever-changing environment, HROs continually look for potential problems and innovative solutions.

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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. These activities can be automated with currently demonstrated technology, completing the analysis more quickly and accurately than the manager ever could.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. The adoption of robotics, internet-of-things technology, and data analytics — along with macroeconomic trends and changing consumer behavior — are fundamentally transforming the way resources are consumed.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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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. As you design your hack or start to think about your innovation story, the first question to ask yourself is: does it tackle a root cause or a deeply embedded pathology of organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. Maximize peer connections.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. The dissemination of technology. Indeed, a recent German study found that the jobs landscape is harmed by the poor distribution of technologies such as robotics throughout the economy.

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