The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. The existential difficulties posed by Covid were also reflected, with 43.8%

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. He is a lecturer at the University of the Arts London, and has written for Dazed, Admap, Brand Strategy, Marketing and Contagious.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

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 84

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 84

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

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. . Marketing and Sales Manager. They also manage both the marketing and the sales staff and perform managerial duties in line with the company’s goals.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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 16

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

Blog 80

Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

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. As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal.

Supply Chain 21

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. We live in a world awash with capital — some $200 trillion in financial assets according to McKinsey & Company.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

Company 18

Company Survey Finance Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

Media 18

Media Productivity Products Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

CFO 15

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 15

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 16

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 16

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

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 13

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. The Future of Financial Services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 15

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

based consulting firm started by a pair of McKinsey alumni. Over time will HourlyNerd, like many other disruptors across industries, want to move up-market to bigger and bigger clients, attracted by the greater profits those relationships promise? While HourlyNerd is making a lot of headlines today, it’s not necessarily a new idea.

McCallum 12

McCallum Consultative Real Estate Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

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

JANUARY 11, 2016

In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media platforms couldn't help but induce precisely the sorts of proprietary insights that might make even a Warren Buffett sit up and take notice. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

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. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds.

Hedge 10

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 10

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 15

Team Conference Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 15

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.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S.

Globalization 10

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. This talent isn’t cheap: a top data scientist can command a $300,000 salary in the current market. The Talent Gap in Big Data.

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 10

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.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. Lacking an understanding of how value is delivered to their market, they make suboptimal investments.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. What do you mean by that term? What’s behind it? Alex Shootman, Workfront.

Content 11

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 11

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. Typically when firms are evaluating investments they look for large addressable markets. That’s quite a mismatch.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 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