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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. And technology? High volumes—low margins—cost-effective—technology driven. I N THE WESTERN WORLD, we often do not have an accurate picture of Africa as a growing marketplace.

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The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

HR Digest

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” In short, out jobbing ourselves. What workplace automation means for workers?

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How to use your “people data” to create value

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Nora Gardner, William Wolf, and Devin McGranahan for The McKinsey Quarterly website, published by McKinsey & Company. Although the thrust of the material is focused on larger organizations, there are some key points relevant to all organizations, whatever their size and nature may be.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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How to Make an AI Project More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The Most and Least Digital Jobs – and How Well They Pay

Harvard Business Review

The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital). A study by the OECD rated most adults “low proficiency” in terms of their ability to work in “technology-rich environments.”