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.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Marti Konstant .

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

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.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

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.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Yet according to recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the U.S. economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy. Why is that? Other sectors are barely keeping pace.

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

Content 8

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 8

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. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. Sensitivity to operations. Managing Population Health for Value With Technology and Data.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. This, he says, undoubtedly contributed to VW’s ignoring evidence that the claim that the diesel technology could comply with environmental regulations was too good to be true.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 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. They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. It’s gone digital.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

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.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated. But don't take it from me.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Bring on the quants.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

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. That's what a team of management innovators did in an earlier M-Prize-winning hack, Late Night Pizza: Extending Hackathons Beyond Technology. Now imagine how it might. The Management 2.0

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12