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.

Minto 14

Minto How To McKinsey Software 14

HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2023

McKinsey reports that 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies have employee resource groups and most DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) strategies will tell you should be prioritizing them too. It is important to consider the company’s capacity before fully committing and supporting employee resource groups.

Resources 52

Resources Policies Participative Goal 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Meanwhile, committed customers should be encouraged to become members and participate in the customer community, as well as create "networking" opportunities. He is formerly a partner with McKinsey & Company and co-led McKinsey's Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) practice.

Brand 15

Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2024

Trying to change the work format can cause a lot of discomfort for employers and employees alike, which discourages companies from fully committing to the concept of experimentation. Participate in every stage of the execution process and if things don’t go smoothly, continue to understand the problem and consider your next step.

Innovation 52

Innovation Project McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development, too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power.

How To 8

How To Bureaucracy McKinsey Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We told participants that we would pay them for whatever problems they reported they had solved. At McKinsey, employees are highly familiar with stories about long-time managing director Marvin Bower’s integrity, and at Starbucks, stories are widely told about CEO Howard Schultz’s commitment to employee welfare.

Influence 8

Influence Bottom-up McKinsey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. A recent McKinsey & Co. The rise of part time jobs means the absence of full-time commitment. Growing number of employers are increasingly committed to not being committed.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Creating effective pay structures is a serious responsibility however many businesses still hold back from fully committing to the endeavor. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The agendas may be inchoate and the uprisings chaotic, but the message is clear: the established way of leading, ruling, governing, and managing is not working anymore. If you want to derive all of the insight and benefits of inviting broad participation in charting your organization's future, it's not enough to just ask for ideas.

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Project management skills. A mastery of project management skills is a must.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 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 Paul Green, Jr., Or, as he also said, "If you're going through hell, keep going.".

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 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. We launched the Management 2.0 We launched the Management 2.0 You have to commit to a big problem to make a big impact. Now imagine how it might.

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8