Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As Nicholas Bloom of Stanford described in HBR last year: “As companies focused on their core competences and outsourced noncore work, the corporate world began to divide between knowledge-intensive companies such as Apple, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey and labor-intensive companies such as Sodexo, which provides food service and facilities management (..)

Health Care 8

Health Care Core Competence Education Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Does the company have the core competencies, or can it acquire them, to take advantage of the opportunity? To take this approach to heart, boards should ask several questions: Where does the company have a unique opportunity to differentiate? Is there an adequate return on investment over the long term to justify moving forward?

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

McKinsey & Co. This will generate short term profits, but just as important, instills a core competency that helps to ensure the "right prices" in the future as the market environment evolves and new products are introduced. There are three reasons why "better pricing" should be your company's top priority. So what do you think?

Price 14

Price Strategy P&L Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. In fact, according to these same McKinsey researchers, if we could increase the time we spend in flow by 15-20%, overall workplace productivity would almost double. Think about that for a moment.

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. See these articles by Jeff Gothelf , McKinsey , and the Boston Consulting Group.). To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S. There’s Too Little Competition.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

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. And it’s not just your company. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And, importantly, how do we make innovation a true core competence? Today, we're delighted to announce the 10 winners of the Innovating Innovation Challenge, the first leg of this year's HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The state of the art when it comes to developing innovation as a core competence.

Innovation 8

Innovation Core Competence McKinsey Armstrong 8