McKinsey: 8 Business Technology Trends to Watch

The McKinsey Quarterly's latest edition (20 December, 2007) features an article on "emerging trends...transforming many markets and businesses."
Authors: James M. Manyika, Roger P. Roberts, and Kara L. Sprague.

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Article summary:

Managing relationships
1. Distributing cocreation
2. Using consumers as innovators
3. Tapping into a world of talent
4. Extracting more value from interactions
Managing capital and assets:
5. Expanding the frontiers of automation
6. Unbundling production from delivery
Leveraging information in new ways:
7. Putting more science into management
8. Making business from information

McKinsey - Management Practices that Work

What makes companies perform well? To find this holy grail of management studies, a McKinsey team analyzed upward of 100,000 questionnaires to uncover the practices of 400 business units in 230 companies around the world. The team eventually arrived at one winning combination: clear roles for employees (accountability), a compelling vision of change (direction), and an environment that encourages openness, trust, and challenge (culture). Nothing else came close in improving organizational performance.

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September 2007 | Member Edition