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- Best Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations
- Off late highly competitive economy presents many obstacles to profitable growth and customer retention. In a 2008 McKinsey Quarterly article, "Business Strategies for Climate Change," the authors explain: "... the winners will be companies that reposition themselves to seize the opportunities of a low-carbon future." This statement has been echoed...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Carbon Footprint, Best Practice, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Higher Customer Profits, Lower Risk: IBM Cognos Performance Perspectives Series
- What's top of mind for retail banks? More often than not, the focus is on customer profitability and risk management. Customers are key to higher branch profits. So it's no surprise that more financial institutions are looking to improve the client experience. But success depends on gaining customer insight. If...
- Tags: Bank, Cognos Inc., Performance, IBM Corp., Financial Services
- White papers 2009-04-01
- 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
- News to know: Globalization, randomness, iPhone, robots and more...
- Notable headlines: The subprime mortgage meltdown has triggered a global investment tsunami, with foreign governments and equity firms rushing to bail out U.S. financial institutions. Singapore-based Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. acquired $4.4 billion in Merrill Lynch stock and took an option to buy an additional $600...
- Tags: U.S., Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Robot, Technology, IBM Corp., Government, Globalization, Robots, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Investment, Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Charles Phillips' troubling keynote
- At some 5,500 miles distance, there is always a risk of getting the wrong end of the stick in parsing keynotes. Fortunately, some of my Irregular colleagues had the benefit of a meeting with Oracle president Charles Phillips. Several of them were Twittering the conversation in real time. This allowed...
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- 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
- The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance
- Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most have known intuitively for some time: all jobs have become more and more information-intensive--less linear and more interactive, less rule-based and more collaborative--while at the same time employees are expected to do more in less time. While technology has helped in part, it...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Why China can't compete in IT services, yet
- Keeping an eye on China as an emerging tech player? The country's economic achievements can eventually propel its software-outsourcing industry to compete with India's. But according to a recent article on The McKinsey Quarterly, a study shows that it will be many years before China poses a threat to its...
- Tags: IT services, information technology
- Blog posts 2005-02-01
- Next-Generation CIOs
- The McKinsey Quarterly: An article explains that in order to get real business value from IT investments CIOs need to adopt a new style of leadership in which they direct their attention away from IT supply--the delivery of IT resources and services to support business functions--and direct it toward managing IT...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2004-08-10
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