Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. A study by McKinsey specific to the business-to-business (B2B) area suggests that businesses that optimize QTC for end-to-end accountability significantly outperform peers that don’t. finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support. In addition, innovation projects carry both technical and organizational debt.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin. Just think about the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. ” They combine experience and emotion into well-developed intuition.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The technology may be abundant, but developing, recruiting and hiring the people to use it is becoming an acute challenge for Fortune 1000 companies. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. Any data-driven, analytics-obsessed trader or investor would be thrilled running a Facebook fund.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

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.” 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff. It’s the essence of agility.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

McKinsey analyzed more than 3,000 software and online-services firms from a 22-year period, finding that fewer than a third reached $100 million in revenue growth. How many software companies really make it big, at least in terms of revenue? Only a handful of companies reached the elusive $4 billion mark.

Software 8

Software Company McKinsey Incentives 8