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McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

New BusinessI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Patriciahttp://dataentryjob-s.com

Tags: Blogging, Web, blog, McKinsey & Co., consulting, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...

Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-02

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...

Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact

Forget carbon footprint measures for a moment. How much money could be poured back into the U.S. economy if people spent more time worrying about wasted energy consumption? McKinsey & Company has come up with a number in a new report about "unlocking energy efficiency in the...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, McKinsey & Co., Energy Consumption, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Google replies to cloud computing concerns

A post on this blog last week asked the question: Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake? After all, a McKinsey & Co. study called "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing" concluded that adoption of the cloud model would be a money-losing mistake for most large corporations...

Tags: Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Data Center, IBM Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?

Everything is in the cloud. It certainly feels that way, even though it's patently untrue. Cloud computing is everywhere, it's a buzzword, it's on the tip of everyone's tongues. To the cloud, I say! To the cloud! But new research from McKinsey & Co....

Tags: Cloud Computing, McKinsey & Co., Data Center, Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Second Life's Linden Labs adds execs from Intuit, McKinsey

Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, announced today the appointments of Brian Michon, formerly VP of Engineering at Intuit, as Vice President of Core Development and Judy Wade, formerly a partner at McKinsey...

Tags: Second Life, Intuit Inc., McKinsey & Co., Virtual World, Linden Lab, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-27

McKinsey blames technology for our health care woes

Add these expenses to our prescription drug epidemic and you see American health consumers subsidizing American dominance of the healthcare technology industries. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Health Care, Imaging Technology, Samuelson, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Could 'The Toyota Way' & Enterprise 2.0 Rescue the Big 3 US Auto Companies?

Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 and with whom I am on the advisory board for the conference of that name, wrote a fascinating blog post earlier this month: 'The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan'. It's a long...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Software, Groupware, Information Technology, Internet, McKinsey & Co., Oliver Marks, Software, Toyota Motor Corp., Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-12-14

Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?

I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...

Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-05

McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business

McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own BusinessInternational Longevity CentreJoris - keep trying, trends are moving your direction. You will get traction and maybe you need to reach beyond the traditional ommunity relations types. In fact CSR Europe is running a specifc effort on demographics which maybe of interest to...

Tags: Corporate Philanthropy, McKinsey & Co., Joris

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business

If only the Big 4 and the top consultancy firms could run on sustainability thought leadership white papers instead of free cash flow, 2008 would surely be a banner year. The latest epistle is from McKinsey who this week publish an insightful survey on corporate philanthropy. The...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Philanthropy, NetSuite Inc., Survey, Business Goal, Marketing Research, Marketing, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-28

McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle

McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No CattleFurther Thoughts on McKinseyHere are some thoughts on McKinsey from Francis McInerney (www.northriver.com) that speak along the same linesThirteen years after Sean White and I published The Total Quality Corporation which showed how companies can make money...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, McKinsey & Co.

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle

Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...

Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-21

McKinsey's look into Web 2.0 in the enterprise

The collection of techniques and technologies known as Web 2.0 is really only just beginning to have an affect on the enterprise. We are in that phase of market development where in Web 1.0 enterprises just started to realize that the internet is the new brochureware. Enterprises are starting to...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-04

McKinsey says buy SaaS

McKinsey says buy SaaSMcKinsey BlessingI guess that means SaaS is going mainstream! Good news - as this is really a better way for organizations to purchase complex but non-core software.Tom O'Bhttp://tomob.wordpress.comCustomization capability of SaaS applicationsI just wanted to comment on the computerword article's reference: "Feature functionality, although good enough...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Hosted Solution, software-as-a-service, McKinsey & Co., software

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

McKinsey says buy SaaS

An opinion column in ComputerWorld by two McKinsey consultants this week explains why they believe its Time for the IT Industry to Take Notice of software as a service. Quoting McKinseys research last year that found a jump from 38% to 61% in the proportion of CIOs planning to use...

Tags: Market research, Business models

Blog posts 2007-05-03

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge

The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups

Blog posts 2007-04-03

McKinsey: Offshoring software development numbers

Widely cited figures predict that by 2015, roughly 3.3 million US business-processing jobs will have moved abroad. As of July 2003, around 400,000 jobs already had. Other research suggests that the number of US service jobs lost to offshoring will accelerate at a rate of 30 to 40 percent annually...

Tags: job

Blog posts 2003-10-22