The organizational agenda in consumer packaged goods

To continue to compete, CPG companies must increase agility, reskill the C-suite, and leverage millennial talent.
The organizational agenda in consumer packaged goods

Leading with inner agility

Disruptive times call for transformational leaders with a knack for addressing complex problems. To navigate effectively, we must learn to let go—and become more complex ourselves.
Leading with inner agility

How smarter purchasing can improve public-sector performance

Well-established best practices can generate billions of dollars of savings that can be better used elsewhere—without affecting services.
How smarter purchasing can improve public-sector performance

Improving outcomes with better government productivity

Sure, productivity can save money. But it could also improve education, fine-tune tax collection, and add 12 billion healthy-life years for the world’s population.
Improving outcomes with better government productivity

Is a greater focus on talent needed in the private equity industry?

As professional management takes hold in private markets, there’s renewed interest in talent issues.
Is a greater focus on talent needed in the private equity industry?

A calm surface belies transformation in securities services

New technologies are bringing significant structural change to the hitherto quiet and steady securities services industry.
A calm surface belies transformation in securities services

Talent management at BlackRock: A conversation with Larry Fink

The most important component of good management is ensuring “diversity of mind,” says the CEO of the world’s largest asset manager.
Talent management at BlackRock: A conversation with Larry Fink

Lessons From the Maker Movement

How artificial intelligence and data add value to businesses

Artificial intelligence will transform many companies and create completely new types of businesses. The cofounder of Coursera, AI Fund, and Landing.AI shares how businesses can benefit.
How artificial intelligence and data add value to businesses

A time for boards to act

According to a new survey, directors see good operations and effective execution of key board activities linking with stronger self-reported performance, suggesting that value can flow from improving the way boards work.
A time for boards to act

How CFOs can better support board directors—and vice versa

Governing boards face increasing pressure and greater scrutiny from investors. Here is how CFOs can reinforce their stewardship.
How CFOs can better support board directors—and vice versa

How governments can be more effective by reallocating their resources

Scrutinizing past expenditures and radically challenging cognitive biases can help governments cut costs and create better outcomes for citizens.
How governments can be more effective by reallocating their resources

How grocers can outperform in Vietnam: Standing tall in a crowded market

Like many emerging markets, Vietnam presents major growth opportunities for modern trade grocers. As they look to expand their shares in Vietnam, a decisive question remains: What is the recipe for profitable growth?
How grocers can outperform in Vietnam: Standing tall in a crowded market

The Risk of Machine-Learning Bias (and How to Prevent It)

What every utility CEO should know about blockchain

Blockchain technology can streamline transactions along the utility value chain. Here is a look at six emerging applications.
What every utility CEO should know about blockchain

How will automation affect jobs, skills, and wages?

As the nature of work changes with automation, millions of people may need to switch occupations and acquire new skills.
How will automation affect jobs, skills, and wages?

Discussions in digital: What’s a marketing ecosystem and what does it mean for marketers?

Marketing ecosystems are creating new professional opportunities—and making new demands. Here’s how today’s marketing leaders are adapting.
Discussions in digital: What’s a marketing ecosystem and what does it mean for marketers?

McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 1: Overview and full issue

This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, shows how companies can unlock big strategic moves to boost their odds of success, why competing in the digital age demands an agile organization, and how to navigate advances in artificial intelligence.
McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 1: Overview and full issue

How Long-Term Investors Influence Corporate Behavior

Strong aggregate demand: Critical for reaping benefits of digitisation

Although digitisation offers a potential way back from the slowdown of productivity growth, its benefits will require a strengthening of aggregate demand, write Jacques Bughin, Hans-Helmut Kotz, and Jan Mischke in Vox.
Strong aggregate demand: Critical for reaping benefits of digitisation

Digitizing dairy in China

The CEO of China’s second-largest dairy company describes how data and artificial intelligence are shaking up how he does business.
Digitizing dairy in China

Why Businesses and Governments Need to Stop Trying to Secure Their Networks

When SMART Goals Are Not So Smart

The CEO of Guardian Life on talent in an age of digital disruption

By rethinking its approach to talent management and introducing agile working practices, the company aims to stay a step ahead of disruptive competitors.
The CEO of Guardian Life on talent in an age of digital disruption

Don’t Let Artificial Intelligence Supercharge Bad Processes

MIT SMR Unlocked for All Visitors

How Leaders Face the Future of Work

Extending the use of episode analytics beyond alternative payment models

Payers (and providers) that have dismissed bundled payments or treated it as a narrow part of their strategies may under-appreciate the value of episode analytics in improving core business functions.
Extending the use of episode analytics beyond alternative payment models

What Sets ‘Superbosses’ Apart From Other Leaders?

Pass the Word: Peer Influence Has Big Impact on Online Market Dynamics

From Winning Games to Winning Customers: How Data Is Changing the Business Side of Sports

Confronting Indonesia’s Productivity Challenge

Indonesia, along with most other Southeast Asian countries, has an opportunity to capture a bigger share of global manufacturing activity. Rising wages in China is giving the ten countries making up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) an opportunity to replace China as the “factory of the world.” Yet taking advantage of this opportunity is not going to be simple.
Confronting Indonesia’s Productivity Challenge

Wealth management in an era of robots, regulation, and new money

By redirecting focus, wealth managers can successfully respond to challenges brought on by digital disruption, demographic shifts, and tighter regulation.
Wealth management in an era of robots, regulation, and new money

Preparing Brazil for the future of work: Jobs, technology, and skills

Automation is coming, disrupting the world of work at unprecedented speed and scale. Here’s how the largest economy in Latin America can face the challenge.
Preparing Brazil for the future of work: Jobs, technology, and skills

Mobile money in emerging markets: The business case for financial inclusion

Meeting the mobile money needs of the unbanked in emerging markets is a vast opportunity. To succeed, providers need a clear view on what drives mobile money economics, and an innovative mind-set.
Mobile money in emerging markets: The business case for financial inclusion

With Great Platforms Comes Great Responsibility

How migration data can deliver real-life benefits for migrants and governments

As countries have joined together on a path toward increased cooperation and action on migration, investment in data will be crucial for its success.
How migration data can deliver real-life benefits for migrants and governments

How concept sprints can improve customer-experience innovation

The concept sprint is a fast five-day process for cross-functional teams to brainstorm, define, and model new approaches to business issues. Here’s how it works.
How concept sprints can improve customer-experience innovation

What will automation mean for wages and income inequality?

In this podcast, we examine how technology has affected employment and incomes in manufacturing and other sectors and whether automation could widen the gap between high- and low-income jobs.
What will automation mean for wages and income inequality?

The digital imperative for pharma companies in Japan

Five facts showing that companies should invest in digital customer engagement in Japan.
The digital imperative for pharma companies in Japan

Talent management as a business discipline: A conversation with Unilever CHRO Leena Nair

HR leaders can leverage people analytics to play a key role in aligning talent with value creation, says the global consumer-goods group’s chief human resources officer.
Talent management as a business discipline: A conversation with Unilever CHRO Leena Nair

A new posture for cybersecurity in a networked world

As the dangers mount, current approaches aren’t working. Cyberrisk management needs a root-and-branch overhaul.
A new posture for cybersecurity in a networked world

Still looking for room at the top: Ten years of research on women in the workplace

What we know—and what everyone needs to know—about the quest for equality.
Still looking for room at the top: Ten years of research on women in the workplace

An agenda for the talent-first CEO

In tumultuous times, a company’s talent is its most valuable and reliable asset. What does it take to lead an organization that truly unleashes its human capital?
An agenda for the talent-first CEO

Use Digital Platforms to Cultivate Diversity

Finding Applications for Technologies Beyond the Core Business

China faces a choice: Modernise or risk a very hard landing

China's investment-led growth model has served it extraordinarily well, setting it on course to become one of the world's advanced economies. Yet the strains associated with that approach have become evident, writes Jonathan Woetzel in Australian Financial Review.
China faces a choice: Modernise or risk a very hard landing

The Hybrid Trap: Why Most Efforts to Bridge Old and New Technology Miss the Mark

Behavioral insights and innovative treatments in collections

Lending institutions can significantly improve collections success by applying innovative treatments based on behavioral segmentation.
Behavioral insights and innovative treatments in collections

Unlocking value from IoT connectivity: Six considerations for choosing a provider

Companies must take a more nuanced look at connectivity providers as the Internet of Things evolves.
Unlocking value from IoT connectivity: Six considerations for choosing a provider

Accelerating the car data monetization journey

Capturing value from vehicle data will require players in the automotive ecosystem to approach the issue strategically and to overcome the three main challenges that 60-plus executives identified in our proprietary survey and industry roundtables.
Accelerating the car data monetization journey

The Store Is Dead — Long Live the Store

Fintech decoded: The capital markets infrastructure opportunity

The level of investment in CMI fintech is gaining. For providers, the key is to view fintech not as a strategy in itself but as a means to reach strategic priorities.
Fintech decoded: The capital markets infrastructure opportunity