Innovating at the speed of the 21st century in pharmaceuticals

The CEO of Eli Lilly offers perspectives on accelerating change in the industry.
Innovating at the speed of the 21st century in pharmaceuticals

Women in law firms

Law firms have many of the right policies and programs in place to improve gender diversity, but more can be done to translate stated commitments into measurable outcomes.
Women in law firms

How medical-device CEOs can navigate digital disruption in healthcare

Medical-device companies will need to reinvent themselves to stay competitive. Now’s the time to craft a strategy and scale a transformation.
How medical-device CEOs can navigate digital disruption in healthcare

Focusing on What 90% of Businesses Do Now Is a Big Mistake

Supply-chain management in aerospace and defense: Cash is king—again

A renewed focus on investment calls for A&D companies to unlock significant amounts of cash. The key will be knowing where to look and what measures can free it up.
Supply-chain management in aerospace and defense: Cash is king—again

Management’s next frontier: Making the most of the ecosystem economy

Engaging in digital ecosystems requires a new set of managerial skills and capabilities. How quickly companies develop them will determine if they succeed in the ecosystem economy.
Management’s next frontier: Making the most of the ecosystem economy

Sustaining Advantage With Transitory Technologies

Infrastructure for the evolution of urban mobility

Self-driving vehicles, ride-hailing services, and other technologies are transforming urban mobility. To capture the benefits of the shift, cities will need sound infrastructure plans and investments.
Infrastructure for the evolution of urban mobility

Grow fast or die slow: The role of profitability in sustainable growth

How can software and online-services companies determine the right balance between growth and profitability?
Grow fast or die slow: The role of profitability in sustainable growth

How digital reinventors are pulling away from the pack

As digitization progresses, incumbents competing in new, digital ways are already outperforming those that continue to operate traditionally, a new survey finds.
How digital reinventors are pulling away from the pack

Why Companies Should Report Financial Risks From Climate Change

Your Company Doesn’t Need a Digital Strategy

Auto Chart

The Problem:

Many clients don’t like the default excel charts because of the following:

1. When you create chart in Excel it is limited to the data you have selected at the time you created the chart. This means that if you need to add more data later to your spreadsheet the chart wont update unless you make manual changes to the data input for your chart.

2. If you want to see your data for different time periods you either need to make manual changes to your chart or create more charts.

These two major complaints are because people really waste time on these manual tasks. Instead of focusing on creating your presentation or analyze your business you waste time on creating reports.

We have developed some customized reporting tools and charts for a customer and one of the tools was the “Auto Chart” – the name was given by the customer (Rick from San Diego). Rick has agreed to share this tool with the entire Inner Circle. Thank you Rick!

The Solution:

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Note: This tool works with daily data by using the date format in column A. If you need to use this tool for other type of data for example text format like January, February… right click the cells in column A and change the format of your cells and do the same for cells L4 and N4 and that’s it.

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Five Robotic Process Automation Risks to Avoid

SME insurance in Australia—a market ripe for change

The market for providing insurance to small and medium companies is changing quickly, necessitating that providers target customer segments carefully.
SME insurance in Australia—a market ripe for change

2016 exchange market remains in flux: Plan type trends

Facts on the shift toward HMOs on the public exchanges.
2016 exchange market remains in flux: Plan type trends

What shoppers really want from personalized marketing

What customers want and what businesses think they want are often two different things. Here’s what customers are looking for.
What shoppers really want from personalized marketing

Who’s at the wheel? Changing culture and leadership to support innovation in autonomous vehicles

The new world of transport will demand different skills, capabilities, and culture.
Who’s at the wheel? Changing culture and leadership to support innovation in autonomous vehicles

Central Europe’s consumers: Looking for value

To attract the region’s value-oriented consumers, retailers and manufacturers in Central Europe must expand their assortments, both in stores and online.
Central Europe’s consumers: Looking for value

Global customer and channel management: What the best CPG companies do

To excel in customer and channel management, consumer-goods companies must emphasize different capabilities in different markets. Which ones matter most, and where?
Global customer and channel management: What the best CPG companies do

2014 individual market post-3R financial performance

2014 performance in the individual market varied among payors – most had negative margins, but ~30% of carriers’ margins were positive.
2014 individual market post-3R financial performance

Justifying Human Involvement in the AI Decision-Making Loop

Using Visualization to Connect Humans and Analytics in Supply Chain Decision-Making

In supply chains and other large systems, the complexity of decision-making is becoming increasingly problematic. To manage the process, we need sophisticated analytics — but we must still engage the human element for best outcomes. Now, there are exciting advances in visualization and human-machine interfaces that are allowing humans and machines to get to better decisions together.

In this webinar, Matthias Winkenbach, research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, discusses the ways companies and researchers can harness interactive visualization and augmented reality technology to change the way we access, understand, and utilize complex systems and logistics data.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to choose the right mix of automated analysis and interactive visualization to get to better decisions in your organization
• The importance of systematic use of data visualization as part of a corporate decision-making culture
• The three main design principles for visually augmented analytics applications in supply chain management
• What the future might hold in light of new technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, and some possible use cases

Using Visualization to Connect Humans and Analytics in Supply Chain Decision-Making

Restoring Trust After a Scandal

Partnering for parity: Strengthening collaborations for gender equality

Organizations that form partnerships to promote gender parity can follow some best practices and avoid major pitfalls that hamper progress.
Partnering for parity: Strengthening collaborations for gender equality

China can be a more influential force in digital world

MGI has estimated that automation in China could add as much as 1.4 percentage points to GDP a year via productivity contributions, write James Manyika and Jonathan Woetzel in People's Daily.
China can be a more influential force in digital world

The department of transportation of the future

Transportation will be dramatically different in ten years. To adapt, public entities and stakeholders must act today.
The department of transportation of the future

How an oil and gas giant outmaneuvered low oil prices

Italian oil and gas company Eni has transformed under a leader determined to reduce costs without cutting jobs—instead including employees in the turnaround mission.
How an oil and gas giant outmaneuvered low oil prices

Elevating the impact of medical affairs in Japan

Recent research sheds light on the value of the medical channel and what it takes to have a high-performing medical-affairs organization.
Elevating the impact of medical affairs in Japan

Disrupting transportation: We need to think bigger than cars

Connectivity could dramatically change the commute of the future.
Disrupting transportation: We need to think bigger than cars

Improving Your Digital Intelligence

How to break through the gravitational pull of your legacy organization

Initial successes in a digital transformation often break down over time. Digital winners know what it takes to break through.
How to break through the gravitational pull of your legacy organization

How container shipping could reinvent itself for the digital age

When McKinsey investigated containerization in 1967, we found that industry players would have to rethink everything. Is it time to rethink everything again?
How container shipping could reinvent itself for the digital age

Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh

Organizations are more likely to innovate and thrive when they unleash the potential of individuals and the power of self-organizing teams, says the online retailer’s CEO.
Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh

Innovative pharma contracts: When do value-based arrangements work?

Many are exploring alternatives to traditional ‘per pill’ arrangements underlying reimbursement. This holds implications for pharma manufacturers.
Innovative pharma contracts: When do value-based arrangements work?

The granularity of Medicaid MCO growth

Despite present uncertainties, MCO leaders can still aspire to grow—and make decisions to support that aspiration. Our research shows that the key sources of growth for Medicaid MCOs are strategic, not operational.
The granularity of Medicaid MCO growth

AI in the Boardroom: The Next Realm of Corporate Governance

Putting an End to Leaders’ Self-Serving Behavior

The future of risk management in the digital era

We, in collaboration with the Institute of International Finance (IIF), worked with more than 50 institutions around the world, including banks, regulators, and fintechs, to explore critical questions on the future of risk management. This report aims to answer these questions and shares insights to help organizations navigate a digital transformation of the risk function—now and in the long term.
The future of risk management in the digital era

Why Entrepreneurs Should Care Less About Disrupting and More About Creating

Democratizing diversity

The general manager of people and culture at Australia’s Origin Energy explains why it’s important to go beyond top-down objectives and targets.
Democratizing diversity

Focusing your M&A team on revenue growth

Revenue synergies can make a good deal even better.
Focusing your M&A team on revenue growth

Bridging infrastructure gaps: Has the world made progress?

Despite increased spending and pockets of progress, infrastructure investment gaps remain.
Bridging infrastructure gaps: Has the world made progress?

Making M&A deal synergies count

When investors understand where deal value comes from, they tend to reward companies up front.
Making M&A deal synergies count

How to make sure your next product or service launch drives growth

Fifty percent of launches don’t hit their targets. Launch champions follow these four rules.
How to make sure your next product or service launch drives growth

Navigating the uncertainty of potential ACA ‘repeal and replace’: A preliminary analysis

The findings in this Intelligence Brief provide an introductory perspective on how the next US administration and Congressional Republicans may approach altering the ACA and related legislation. The information is based on publicly reported information released through December 8, 2016. Our Reform Center team is continuing to refresh this perspective on a real-time basis and is closely analyzing potential implications and economic impacts for each policy element under a full range of scenarios.
Navigating the uncertainty of potential ACA ‘repeal and replace’: A preliminary analysis

Neutralize Internal Politics in Digital Initiatives

Housing affordability: A supply-side tool kit for cities

Global housing stock has not expanded quickly enough to keep up with a surge in demand, but cities can focus on three supply-side solutions to make progress.
Housing affordability: A supply-side tool kit for cities

Could the Big Technology Companies of Today Be the Financial Advisers of Tomorrow?

Digital Audits as a Tactical and Strategic Management Resource

Against the odds: How payors can succeed under persistent uncertainty

The US health insurance industry continues to be defined by uncertainty. The 25 articles in this compendium can help health insurers navigate the changes ahead.
Against the odds: How payors can succeed under persistent uncertainty

What enterprise-technology companies must know to drive digital-sales growth

B2B companies often achieve subpar results from digital-sales initiatives—and tech companies are not immune to this problem. How can they reverse the trend?
What enterprise-technology companies must know to drive digital-sales growth

How mobility players can compete as the automotive revolution accelerates

What is required to navigate the emerging personal-mobility landscape in an uncertain future?
How mobility players can compete as the automotive revolution accelerates

Optimizing production in the age of the machine

As machines play an ever more important role in production, companies need smarter and more holistic ways to optimize performance.
Optimizing production in the age of the machine

Extended lean toolkit for total productivity

Technology is on manufacturers’ side, but their next challenge is to create tools, infrastructure, and processes that turn rich data into real performance improvement.
Extended lean toolkit for total productivity

Navigating the digital future: The disruption of capital projects

Digital technology is disrupting capital projects. Companies that want to emerge as leaders must transform their organizations now.
Navigating the digital future: The disruption of capital projects

Women in the Workplace 2017

More companies are committing to gender equality. But progress will remain slow unless we confront blind spots on diversity—particularly regarding women of color, and employee perceptions of the status quo.
Women in the Workplace 2017

Shaping the future of work in Europe’s 9 digital front-runner countries

Our research shows significant value in embracing AI and automation for Sweden, but sees a requirement for new skill sets among employees and a policy response around education, training and the social contract.
Shaping the future of work in Europe’s 9 digital front-runner countries

Three Characteristics of a Winning Digital Strategy

Setting an agenda for organic growth in the digital age

Business leaders can focus on three mind-sets to drive growth in their companies and sustain that growth for the long term.
Setting an agenda for organic growth in the digital age

Secrets of successful change implementation

What do successful implementers of change initiatives do differently from other companies? Our survey of more than 2,000 executives yields actionable answers.
Secrets of successful change implementation

To make a transformation succeed, invest in capability building

Companies can vastly raise the odds of success if they take the time to build the needed capabilities.
To make a transformation succeed, invest in capability building

Hello, mobile operators? This is your age of disruption calling

Difficult times for operators call for questioning old orthodoxies to win.
Hello, mobile operators? This is your age of disruption calling

Going Mobile: The Personalized, On-Demand Future of Urban Transportation

Where is technology taking the economy?

We are creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in the virtual economy. This is bringing us into a new economic era—a distributive one—where different rules apply.
Where is technology taking the economy?

Women Matter: Ten years of insights on gender diversity

A decade into our research, we highlight key findings—and invite 16 global leaders to look at how to increase gender diversity in corporations and imagine the inclusive company of the future.
Women Matter: Ten years of insights on gender diversity

Energy transition: Mission (im)possible for industry?

Dutch industrial companies have a key role to play in repositioning the Netherlands to thrive in a low-carbon future. Despite technological challenges and the pressure of global competition, it is possible for them to lower their greenhouse-gas emissions in line with European goals.
Energy transition: Mission (im)possible for industry?

Mapping the benefits of a circular economy

Mapping the benefits of a circular economy

Why oil and gas companies must act on analytics

Offshore platforms are, on average, running at only 77 percent of maximum production potential. Proper use of analytics can quickly improve on that.
Why oil and gas companies must act on analytics

Gauging the disruptive power of robo-taxis in autonomous driving

The self-driving taxi could ultimately take the global auto industry on a wild ride. Our use-case approach reveals why.
Gauging the disruptive power of robo-taxis in autonomous driving

Performance management: Why keeping score is so important, and so hard

The elements of a good performance-management system are simple, but integrating them into a business’s fundamental operating system is more difficult than it seems.
Performance management: Why keeping score is so important, and so hard

We are wrong about millennial sports fans

Millennials enjoy sports just as much as members of other generations. It’s the way they consume sports that matters.
We are wrong about millennial sports fans

Augmented and virtual reality: The promise and peril of immersive technologies

Immersive technologies, namely virtual and augmented reality, will fundamentally alter how we interact with content.
Augmented and virtual reality: The promise and peril of immersive technologies

For a Return on Platform Investment, Focus on New Capabilities

Advanced analytics in hospitality

Digital technologies are creating value and rearranging roles in the travel industry. Here’s how industry leaders are profiting from the change.
Advanced analytics in hospitality

Integrating Analytics in Your Organization: Lessons From the Sports Industry

As sector borders dissolve, new business ecosystems emerge

Over the next decade, learning to operate in a business world with disappearing borders will become a necessity for companies that want to be competitive.
As sector borders dissolve, new business ecosystems emerge

Building smarter cars with smarter factories: How AI will change the auto business

From driverless cars to robots on the factory floor, AI is transforming the automotive industry. Here are the steps smart companies are taking to seize the opportunities it offers.
Building smarter cars with smarter factories: How AI will change the auto business

10 imperatives for Europe in the age of AI and automation

Europe, while making progress, is behind the US and China in capturing the opportunities of artificial intelligence and automation.
10 imperatives for Europe in the age of AI and automation

Toward an integrated technology operating model

Companies may be able to get digital transformations off the ground by separating digital from conventional IT, but that approach is not sustainable. Here’s a better way.
Toward an integrated technology operating model

Advancing manufacturing leadership

Transforming a manufacturer’s performance usually means changing its culture—and that means its leaders must change how they lead.
Advancing manufacturing leadership

Leadership in innovation needs innovation in leadership

As businesses face evolving challenges, four aspects of leadership will become dramatically more important: insight, integrity, courage, and agility.
Leadership in innovation needs innovation in leadership

How to create an agile organization

Transforming companies to achieve organizational agility is in its early days but already yielding positive returns. While the paths can vary, survey findings suggest how to start.
How to create an agile organization

Lions (still) on the move: Growth in Africa’s consumer sector

Africa remains a high-potential region, but growth is concentrated in a few markets and income segments. To win, companies need a tailored, data-driven approach.
Lions (still) on the move: Growth in Africa’s consumer sector

Strategic Priorities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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This quiz draws from ideas discussed in the article “Turning Strategy Into Results,” by Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, Charles Sull, and James Yoder, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2017.

Strategic Priorities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly