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McKinsey Quarterly’s 10 articles 2012
| In this, our final Top Ten Newsletter of 2012, we’ve rounded up the most popular articles among readers this year. Read them today and join the conversation. | ||||||
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| 4. STRATEGY Becoming more strategic: Three tips for any executive You don’t need a formal strategy role to help shape your organization’s strategic direction. Start by moving beyond frameworks and communicating in a more engaging way.5. STRATEGY A CEO’s guide to innovation in China Dynamic domestic players and focused multinationals are helping China churn out a growing number of innovative products and services. Intensifying competition lies ahead; here’s a road map for navigating it. 6. STRATEGY |
7. ORGANIZATION Motivating people: Getting beyond money The economic slump offers business leaders a chance to more effectively reward talented employees by emphasizing nonfinancial motivators rather than bonuses.8. STRATEGY The social side of strategy Crowdsourcing your strategy may sound crazy. But a few pioneering companies are starting to do just that, boosting organizational alignment in the process. Should you join them? 9. STRATEGY 10. OPERATIONS |
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Elevating technology on the boardroom agenda – McKinsey Quarterly – Business Technology – Strategy
Found at Elevating technology on the boardroom agenda – McKinsey Quarterly – Business Technology – Strategy
Businesses are becoming increasingly digital and it’s not just a matter of process automation or resource-planning systems..
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My point of view: also elevate technology on your professional and personal agenda!
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Measuring marketing’s worth
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You can’t spend wisely unless you understand marketing’s full impact. Here are five questions executives should ask to help maximize the bang for their bucks.
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McKinsey’s May 2012 Newsletter–How your company can use social media
May 2012 Newsletter–How your company can use social media.
How your company can use social media
This month, we aim to sharpen your thinking about blogs, wikis, mobile apps, Web forums, and the like. “Demystifying social media” shows how executives can shape the consumer’s purchase decision by harnessing these new platforms. Several consumers share their experiences, and three McKinsey partners provide advice on how companies can draw on social media to build brand loyalty, in the video “Making sense of social media,” on mckinsey.com. “A social journey” interactively demonstrates why marketers should use such techniques at every stage of the consumer’s purchase process. “Understanding social media in China” shows that despite vast differences between this market and those of the West, the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar. Finally, review the results of therecent live Twitter conversation hosted by McKinsey partners David Edelman and Hugo Sarrazin on using social media to shape consumer decision making (available on Storify).
Read all at May 2012 Newsletter–How your company can use social media
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McKinsey Classics Newsletter Articles of enduring interest
technology for competitive advantage
Although many new business technologies boost productivity, they usually diffuse rapidly through sectors, so the benefits accrue to the consumer, not to individual companies. Yet technology can help them create or extend a competitive advantage by generating hard-to-imitate products and services. That happens, for example, when IT innovations complement sustainable strengths such as new business processes or managerial breakthroughs. Read “Getting IT spending right this time.”
May 2003
Getting IT spending right this time
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January 2010
Using knowledge brokering to improve business processes [includes audio]
December 2007
Eight business technology trends to watch [includes audio]
September 2006
How IT can drive business process reorganization: An interview with the CIO of Volkswagen
May 2006
Competitive advantage from better interactions
November 2005
Improving productivity, part 2
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- Participate in McKinsey management 2.0 challenge: what new management practices can Web 2.0 tools and technologies enable? (serve4impact.com)
- 10 Posts McKinsey Quarterly 2 2011 (serve4impact.com)
- Sparking creativity in teams: An executive’s guide – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy – Strategy in Practice (serve4impact.com)
10 Posts McKinsey Quarterly 2 2011
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| 4. ECONOMIC STUDIES The challenge—and opportunity—of ‘big data’ A new report explores the explosive growth of digital information and its potential uses. 5. ORGANIZATION 6. STRATEGY |
7. ORGANIZATION Seven steps to better brainstorming Most attempts at brainstorming are doomed. To generate better ideas—and boost the odds that your organization will act on them—start by asking better questions. 8. TELECOMMUNICATIONS 9. MARKETING 10. CORPORATE FINANCE |
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Participate in McKinsey management 2.0 challenge: what new management practices can Web 2.0 tools and technologies enable?
Management 2.0 Challenge: How is the Internet changing management?.
Management 2.0 Challenge: How is the Internet changing management?
Despite the Internet’s profound impact on business models, it has had a relatively modest effect on management models. But what new management practices can Web 2.0 tools and technologies enable? In conjunction with Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Harvard Business Review, McKinsey is launching a contest to explore just that. Enter by telling us what progressive practices and innovative ideas you’ve developed that illustrate how the Web can be used to make organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable.
Visit the MIX site to find out more about entering the contest and to see some initial ideas.
Plus, read our recent Quarterly article “The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday” to learn how some companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.
This Management 2.0 Challenge is one in a series of HBR/McKinsey M-Prizes for innovation in management. Look for more opportunities to help us build our knowledge on management innovation later this year: we’ll be launching M-Prizes on organization and strategy in the fall.
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