Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . Their work responsibilities include web design database development as well as designing a company’s IT approaches and strategies. Marketing and Sales Manager.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

Review 85

Review Finance Books Industry 85

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 101

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. World authority on branding and culture transformation.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. Ensuring that strategy has money behind it. There are two reasons for this. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

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.

Industry 269

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Businesses need to organize around long-term strategies for growth and partnership in a sustainable way. Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. The consequences for not doing so can be dire. Insight Center.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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 senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation involve a diverse workforce as well.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. MBA programs responded by expanding their offerings in areas such as strategy, organizational behavior and leadership. So ask yourself: What market am I in now?

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

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 3, 2018

It’s easy to see what countries think they have to gain in these efforts: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation , McKinsey , and Accenture believe that enabling CEs will lead to trillions of dollars in savings and is a particularly significant step in protecting the environment.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 Sharpen product strategies for a more digitally connected world.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. A third common issue that organizations run into is that they treat innovation as a monolith and limit the strategies available to them.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Something astonishing is happening to the market for young, smart labor. In an opinion piece , Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg says that millennials are increasingly thinking of finance, consulting, and corporate jobs as a "a tragedy of wasted minds." But start-ups do more than just good marketing. Where are all these people going?

Trends 9

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Noelle Galperin was heading up her own strategy-consulting firm when she decided to engage in civic service by joining The Children’s Movement of California, an initiative by the nonprofit Children Now, which advocates for children’s issues. It was time for me to explore paths to leadership in other contexts.” .

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 And then you think about how new entrants come into the market.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. That was the challenge.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. And it is not alone.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Similarly, there are evident challenges in terms of market sophistication, with the country ranking 123rd in terms of ease of getting credit and general access to finance. For instance, the Global Innovation Index ranks the country just 117th in terms of ICT usage, with the general infrastructure ranked even worse.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. Adjust strategies to meet goals.

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8