First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 2, 2011

Once again, McKinsey & Company offers (at no cost) an exceptionally valuable resource, in this instance Eric Schmidt‘s conversation with McKinsey director James Manyika about business culture, technology, and social issues.

Technology 85

Technology McKinsey Execution Video 85

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 469

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make : From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner. The Cost Of Waiting by @scedmonds. How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey. How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling - Fortune. FT: We prefer bad bosses to be 100% horrible.

Servant Leader 150

Servant Leader McKinsey Strategic Planning Open-book 150

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. The dissemination of technology. Indeed, a recent German study found that the jobs landscape is harmed by the poor distribution of technologies such as robotics throughout the economy.

TCO 83

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Training Remote Managers. According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams. It is feasible and a good cost-effective alternative.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In The Ecosystem Economy , McKinsey’s Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz paint a picture of the future of education that will see the ways in which we learn transformed. The need to widen access to university was emphasized in IE University’s Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño’s latest book Philosophy Inc.,

Education 114

Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 114

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

But, the desire for instant gratification is also forcing logistics and transportation businesses to provide delivery options that are faster, more cost-effective, and convenient as well as offer increased flexibility to the customer. How is Ecommerce Transforming Logistics and Transportation Management? Conclusion.

Transportation 50

Transportation Parcell Supply Chain Management 50

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. The need for collaboration is driven by the issues arising from the current economic crisis and supported by the opportunities afforded by advances in technology, specifically Web 2.0. It doesn’t matter what your role is.

Competitive Advantage 282

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Creativity Diversity 282

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 104

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 104

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 94

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 94

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 80

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 80

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

When Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin walked us through the lessons she learned as she responded to then President-elect Trump’s tweet to the American public that he felt F-35 costs were out of control, which wiped of $4 billion of market cap in a day, it was both gripping and profound.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Human Resource Managers.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

According to Gallup , replacing an employee can cost between one-half to two times their annual salary. Essentially, a 100-person organization with a $50,000 average salary could see replacement costs of over $660,000 to $2.6 There are many reasons why employers and their HR professionals should prioritize employee retention.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

information about work and jobs is relatively hard to come by for someone seeking employment,” says James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords. “We find that in the U.S.,

Tips 128

Tips Succession Social Capital McKinsey 128

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

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. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

Transportation 10

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 10

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. Basically, we are saying, “I won’t use resources on this because the pain of being vulnerable ‘costs’ less than the cost of NOT applying my resources elsewhere.” No instrument can play everything.

Efficiency 132

Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Everyone in the room who is fully satisfied with their IT staff and has no concerns about finding and recruiting new technology talent raise your hand. If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. The Economic Costs of Fear (Project Syndicate).

Development 14

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

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. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. Recent research from McKinsey Global Institute found that 45% of work activities could potentially be automated by today’s technologies, and 80% of that is enabled by machine learning.

Insurance 10

Insurance Video Project Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

It can be tough enough to manage your own stress. But how can you, as a manager, help the members of your team handle their feelings of stress, burnout, or disengagement? HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. Managing Yourself Book. dave wheeler FOR HBR.

Stress 8

Stress Team Management Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Yet, as obviously logical as that finding turns out to be, McKinsey was right to frame it as counterintuitive.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

A recent survey by Deloitte of “aggressive adopters” of cognitive technologies found that 76% believe that they will “substantially transform” their companies within the next three years. There probably hasn’t been this much excitement about a new technology since the dotcom boom years in the late 1990s.

Project 9

Project How To Technology ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

By 2020 customers will manage 85% of their relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human. Leading companies are experimenting with what these technologies can do for them, typically around transactional processes at early stages of the customer journey. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Development 8

Development Technology Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Yet workplace training is more necessary than ever, as technology and globalization continue to change the types of jobs that are available. Many measure cost per student. These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. Some are excellent; others, not so much.

Metrics 10

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Identify and stratify patients by disease severity to manage population health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 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. Take, for example, the role of a marketing manager or executive in a consumer products company.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8