China’s Semiconductor Market
Managing a Sprawling Service Business
Micromarket modeling fills an analytical void that plagues managers of growing service networks. Using relatively simple and available tools, this approach can provide previously inaccessible insights into the development of winning strategies for service businesses. It can help senior managers to make strategic decisions, such as whether new businesses should be created, and to devise tailored, market-specific strategies. And it can help managers work closer … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Cody Phipps, Hoyoung Pak, Tom Spathis | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Operations
The Return of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has come in and out of vogue more times than Madonna in the past 20 years: it has been hyped and then, having failed to live up to the hype, been discredited until being revived again. AI’s biggest enemy may be the promises made by its proponents. Nonetheless, the AI-development community has generated techniques that are beginning to show promise for real … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Corey Booth, Shashi Buluswar | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
The e-tailer’s secret weapon
General retailers use their expertise in a few core categories to attract customers, but over the Web they must offer more. Enter the on-line category manager.
Content: Article | Authors: Sandeep Dayal, Thomas D. French, Vivek Sankaran | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Industry Specific, IT / Technology / E-Business | Industry: Retail
Back to Basics: Fundamental Forces Spur Bull Market
Learning to Love Recessions
Most companies battened down the hatches during the recession of the early ’90s. But the more successful competitors pressed their advantages.
Content: Article | Authors: Francis Malige, Richard F. Dobbs, Tomas Karakolev | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy
Taking Tesco global
This is not a traditional academic case, but rather a detailed interview with David Reid, deputy chairman of the United Kingdom’s largest grocer, Tesco. In it he explains the company’s international strategy and their online delivery model among other items.
Content: Case Study | Author: Peter N. Child | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Industry Specific, International | Industry: Retail
A value culture for agriculture
To become high-performing businesses, agricultural co-ops must move away from their traditional role as service providers.
Editor’s Note: not a typical academic case but rather a detailed analysis by McKinsey
Content: Case Study | Authors: Ashish A. Kumar, Bernard Loyd, Jack J. Dempsey, Loula S. Merkel | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Agriculture
Doing Good By Doing Well
Nonprofit organizations should consider creating wealth rather than merely redistributing it.
Content: Article | Author: Bill Shore | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Dominic Barton, Roberto Newell, and Gregory Wilson
In normal times, four boundaries limit the scope and nature of a company’s business: regulations, competition, customers’ attitudes, and the organization’s ability to change. In times of crisis, however, the boundaries often shift dramatically, and those shifting boundaries can become the means through which companies improve their competitive position.
Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Competition, Strategy
When carve-outs make sense
Most carve-outs destroy shareholder value during the two years after the transaction. Yet there is one important exception.
Content: Article | Authors: Annema, Marc H. Goedhart, William C. Fallon | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Finance
Time for CFOs to step up
As investors home in on business fundamentals and credible accounting, the CFO’s traditional oversight of planning and performance takes on new urgency.
Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan Peacock, Tim Koller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Finance, Management
When computers learn to talk: A Web services primer
What are Web services? Why should you care? Find out here…
Content: Article | Authors: Samir Patil, Suneel Saigal | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
India-From emerging to surging
In a decade, the country could more than double its gross domestic product per capita-but only if its government and people act quickly and decisively.
Content: Article | Authors: Amadeo M. Di Lodovico, Shirish Sankh, Vincent Palmade, William W. Lewis | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia
Putting citizens on-line, not in line
Electronic government can provide faster, more convenient, and more accurate services that will improve the lives of the people.
Content: Article | Authors: Gassan Al-Kibsi, Kito de Boer, Mona Mourshed, Nigel P. Rea | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Government
Not-for-profit management: The gift that keeps on giving
Nonprofit organizations should focus on building a lasting organization and on developing effective performance metrics. To make this possible, donors must change their approach to philanthropy.
Content: Article | Authors: Les Silverman, Lynn Taliento, Stephanie Lowell | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Industry Specific, Nonprofit | Industry: Non-Profit
Deals that Create Value
No doubt the market is skeptical about M&A, but it is a lot more receptive to some kinds of deals than to others. Inquire before you acquire.
Content: Article | Authors: Alexander van Wassenaer, Hans Bieshaar, Jeremy Knight | Source: McKinsey Quarterly
How good management raises productivity
Competition tends to boost productivity in an economic sector. Does good management help, too? A new McKinsey study finds that it does. Managers who employ high-caliber people, reward performance, and minimize waste also raise productivity, especially in competitive environments.
Editor’s Note: This is a premium-content article that has been provided free by special arrangement – not sure how long the free link will remain valid… … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: John Dowdy, Stephen J. Dorgan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, Management