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Breaking operational barriers to peak productivity

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Article
Today’s good to great: Next-generation operational excellence
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Article
From promising to productive: Real results from gen AI in services
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Report
Retailers’ climate road map: Charting paths to decarbonized value chains
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Blog Post
How capital project owners can get just-in-time talent for their teams
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Podcast
Generative AI in operations: Capturing the value
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Top view of robotic arm working on conveyor belt In smart warehouse.
Article
Getting warehouse automation right
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Robot picking a box in a manufacturing factory.
Article
Digital logistics: Technology race gathers momentum
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Article
Tech and regionalization bolster supply chains, but complacency looms
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Blog Post
The COO agenda: Stakeholder engagement
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Article
It’s coming home: The return of agile hardware product development
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Article
A new era for procurement: Value creation across the supply chain
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Article
Boosting Vietnam’s manufacturing sector: From low cost to high productivity
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McKinsey Direct
Europe’s €10 billion savings opportunity to deliver onshore wind and solar
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Case Study
Solving the digital manufacturing disconnect: A case study
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Article
AI: The next frontier of performance in industrial processing plants
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Blog Post
The COO agenda: Vision, plan, and execution
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Blog Post
Supply chain resilience—in China and everywhere else
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Blog Post
What is the COO agenda?
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Apprenticeships today for skills tomorrow
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Article
Digital twins: The key to smart product development
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Article
Want more efficient finance and HR functions? Become more effective
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Article
Making modular construction fit
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Podcast
Moving supply chain leaders to the C-suite
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: It takes two to build capabilities
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Blog Post
What global business services need in 2023
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Article
When technology meets operational excellence
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Article
Maintenance and operations: Is asset productivity broken?
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Article
The next frontier of customer engagement: AI-enabled customer service
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Article
Battery recycling takes the driver’s seat
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Article
Procurement 2023: Ten CPO actions to defy the toughest challenges
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Article
Taking off: Scaling complex manufacturing in the aerospace industry
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Article
Indirect manufacturing costs: An overlooked source for clear savings
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Chemical plant at dawn in Kawasaki, Japan
Article
A new operations formula for the chemicals sector
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Article
Battery 2030: Resilient, sustainable, and circular
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Article
The next chapter: Lighthouses shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Commentary
Failure is not an option: How to get resilience right
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Article
To regionalize or not? Optimizing North American supply chains
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Article
Deep learning in product design
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Article
Procurement in Africa: Exercising a muscle for challenging times
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Article
What matters: How to scale advanced analytics in corporate functions
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Article
Great service—but who’s paying?
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Podcast
Digital twins: Flying high, flexing fast
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Podcast
114 down, 10 million to go: The Global Lighthouse Network’s mission
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Article
Accelerating capital projects to secure advantages in the net-zero transition
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Article
Smart scheduling: How to solve workforce-planning challenges with AI
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Podcast
Inflation fighter and value creator: Procurement’s best-kept secret
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Article
The scaling imperative for industry 4.0
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Emerging from disruption: The future of pharma operations strategy
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Article
Utility procurement: Ready to meet new market challenges
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Podcast
Digital twins: What could they do for your business?
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Article
A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planning
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The Titanium Economy
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Delivering the US manufacturing renaissance
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Article
Taking the pulse of shifting supply chains
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Powering the learning and development engine
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Article
How mining companies reach the operational excellence gold standard
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: The need for speed in building skills
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Customer care center
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The state of customer care in 2022
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Article
Converge IT and OT to turbocharge business operations’ scaling power
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Article
Transforming advanced manufacturing through Industry 4.0
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Article
New operations management systems for a digital world
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Value, speed, and scale: A new era for operations in Asia
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Future-proofing the supply chain
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Miami's new overpass
Podcast
How to manage the coming wave of investment in capital projects
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A better way to drive your business
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Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively
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Article
Expand diversity among your suppliers—and add value to your organization
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Full-potential procurement: Lessons amid inflation and volatility
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Acting where it makes a difference: The corporate center that can flex
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Morning meeting at the factory
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Training your own capital-project talent
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Skinny design: Smaller is better
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Outsprinting the energy crisis
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Fueling digital operations with analog data
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Stone and sand
Article
Japan’s design imperative
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Article
How can corporate functions become more agile?
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Navigating the semiconductor chip shortage: A control-tower case study
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Lighthouses reveal a playbook for responsible industry transformation
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Bridging the labor mismatch in US construction
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Transforming supply chains: Do you have the skills to accelerate your capabilities?
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How business operations can respond to price increases: A CEO guide
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Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies
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How good are your internal operations—really?
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Five digital and analytics battlegrounds for B2B aftermarket growth
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Five digital and analytics battlegrounds for B2B aftermarket growth
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AI-driven operations forecasting in data-light environments
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Getting business process outsourcing right in a digital future
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Product sustainability: Back to the drawing board
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Article
To improve your supply chain, modernize your supply-chain IT
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Toward smart production: Machine intelligence in business operations
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From speech to insights: The value of the human voice
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Risk and resilience in consumer-goods supply chains
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How to deal with price increases in this inflationary market
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The digital spend control tower: Shift spending mindsets at scale
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The digital spend control tower: Shift spending mindsets at scale
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Article
Navigating the labor mismatch in US logistics and supply chains
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Podcast
Supply-chain resilience: Is there a holy grail?
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Innovation through the digital disruption of customer service
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Innovation through the digital disruption of customer service
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Article
Managing change: What lies behind G&A spend transformation
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How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chains
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Lighthouses unlock sustainability through 4IR technologies
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Lighthouses unlock sustainability through 4IR technologies
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Managing the risks and returns of intelligent automation
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Managing the risks and returns of intelligent automation
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Article
Resilience: The whole-company fitness challenge
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Article
Industrial-resource productivity and the road to sustainability
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Article
Preparing global business services for the next normal
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An on-demand revolution in customer-experience operations?
Article
An on-demand revolution in customer-experience operations?
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A manufacturing footprint fit for the future, via advanced analytics
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A manufacturing footprint fit for the future, via advanced analytics
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Operationalizing machine learning in processes
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Operationalizing machine learning in processes
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Buying into a more sustainable value chain
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Buying into a more sustainable value chain
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Building resilience through procurement analytics
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Building resilience through procurement analytics
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Global business-services sourcing comes of age
Article
Global business-services sourcing comes of age
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Project delivery hubs: Analytics for better megaproject outcomes
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Project delivery hubs: Analytics for better megaproject outcomes
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An ecosystem of partners: The foundation of capital project excellence
Article
An ecosystem of partners: The foundation of capital project excellence
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China's digital R&D imperative
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China’s digital R&D imperative
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Digital supplier days: Events for capturing value in procurement
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Digital supplier days: Events for capturing value in procurement
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In volatile markets, embedded product costs can be a hidden treasure
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In volatile markets, embedded product costs can be a hidden treasure
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How to boost growth in industrial services: Better customer experience
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How to boost growth in industrial services: Better customer experience
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Prediction at scale: How industry can get more value out of maintenance
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Prediction at scale: How industry can get more value out of maintenance
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Responding to inflation and volatility: Time for procurement to lead
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Responding to inflation and volatility: Time for procurement to lead
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Establishing the right analytics-based maintenance strategy
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Establishing the right analytics-based maintenance strategy
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Call for action: Seizing the decarbonization opportunity in construction
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Call for action: Seizing the decarbonization opportunity in construction
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Overcoming barriers to multitier supplier collaboration
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Overcoming barriers to multitier supplier collaboration
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Beyond gadgetry: Changing the game in maintenance
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Beyond gadgetry: Changing the game in maintenance
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Making supply-chain decarbonization happen
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Making supply-chain decarbonization happen
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Industrial services' overlooked sales force: Their technicians
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Industrial services’ overlooked sales force: Their technicians
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Virtually possible: Getting remote work right for G&A functions
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Virtually possible: Getting remote work right for G&A functions
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The project of the future: The best ideas from the 2021 GII Summit
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The project of the future: The best ideas from the 2021 GII Summit
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Do your G and A functions fit your growth trajectory
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Do your G&A functions fit your growth trajectory?
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Can your supply chain deliver what your consumer wants?
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Can your supply chain deliver what your consumer wants?
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A smarter way to digitize maintenance and reliability
Article
A smarter way to digitize maintenance and reliability
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Analytics-to-Value: Digital analytics optimizing products and portfolios
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Analytics-to-Value: Digital analytics optimizing products and portfolios
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Labor-intensive factories—analytics-intensive productivity
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Labor-intensive factories—analytics-intensive productivity
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Net zero or bust: Beating the abatement cost curve for growth
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Net zero or bust: Beating the abatement cost curve for growth
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Rethinking operations in the next normal
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Rethinking operations in the next normal
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Everyone is within learning distance: Building skills remotely
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Everyone is within learning distance: Building skills remotely
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Calculating complexity: Maximizing the value of customization
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Calculating complexity: Maximizing the value of customization
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CEO dialogue: Perspectives on reimagining operations for growth
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CEO dialogue: Perspectives on reimagining operations for growth
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With artificial intelligence, find new suppliers in days, not months
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With artificial intelligence, find new suppliers in days, not months
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Transforming quality and warranty through advanced analytics
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Transforming quality and warranty through advanced analytics
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The future of G&A: Revitalizing the heart of the organization
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The future of G&A: Revitalizing the heart of the organization
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The manufacturers lighting a path to sustainable growth
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The manufacturers lighting a path to sustainable growth
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How a steel plant in India tapped the value of data—and won global acclaim
Case Study
How a steel plant in India tapped the value of data—and won global acclaim
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2021 and beyond: Preparing for the future of SG&A
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Preparing for the future of SG&A
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Now is the time for procurement to lead value capture
Article
Now is the time for procurement to lead value capture
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The future of work after COVID-19
Report - MGI Research
The future of work after COVID-19
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Executive Briefing
Capital Projects 5.0: Reimagining capital-project delivery
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Digital service excellence: Scaling the next-generation operating model
Collection
The industrial revolution in services
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A new growth story: Maximizing value from remote customer interactions
Article
A new growth story: Maximizing value from remote customer interactions
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Building a digital bridge across the supply chain with nerve centers
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Building a digital bridge across the supply chain with nerve centers
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Five themes can help procurement shape recovery in the next normal
Article
Five themes can help procurement shape recovery in the next normal
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CEO dialogue: Perspectives on reimagining industrial supply chains
Article
CEO dialogue: Perspectives on reimagining industrial supply chains
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COVID-19: An inflection point for Industry 4.0
Article
COVID-19: An inflection point for Industry 4.0
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The corporate center: Driving the next normal
Article
The corporate center: Driving the next normal
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The resilience imperative for medtech supply chains
Article
The resilience imperative for medtech supply chains
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Digital performance management: From the front line to the bottom line
Interview
Digital performance management: From the front line to the bottom line
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Breaching the great wall to scale
Article
Breaching the great wall to scale
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The right tools for every job: Lean and agile in maintenance
Article
The right tools for every job: Lean and agile in maintenance
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Finding the sweet spot in product-portfolio management
Article
Finding the sweet spot in product-portfolio management
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What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries
Article - MGI Research
What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries
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Reimagine: Preparing for SG&A in the next normal
Article
Reimagine: Preparing for SG&A in the next normal
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The seven investment priorities for a resilient procurement function
Blog Post
The seven investment priorities for a resilient procurement function
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Ops 4.0--The human factor: Skill, will and the next normal
Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The human factor: Skill, will and the next normal
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Analytics helps global business services fuel resilience and return
Article
Analytics helps global business services fuel resilience and return
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Design cost-effective, carbon-abated products with resource cleansheets
Article
Design cost-effective, carbon-abated products with resource cleansheets
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Reimagining procurement for the next normal
Article
Reimagining procurement for the next normal
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Operations-driven sustainability
Article
Operations-driven sustainability
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Building the vital skills for the future of work in operations
Article
Building the vital skills for the future of work in operations
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Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
Report - MGI Research
Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
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The role of spend analytics in the next normal
Article
The role of spend analytics in the next normal
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Industry 4.0: Reimagining manufacturing operations after COVID-19
Article
Industry 4.0: Reimagining manufacturing operations after COVID-19
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Why now is the time to stress-test your industrial supply chain
Article
Why now is the time to stress-test your industrial supply chain
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Resetting supply chains for the next normal
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Resetting supply chains for the next normal
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Taking supplier collaboration to the next level
Article
Taking supplier collaboration to the next level
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The next normal in construction
Article
The next normal in construction: How disruption is reshaping the world’s largest ecosystem
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Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businesses
Article
Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businesses
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Beyond contactless operations: Human-centered customer experience
Article
Beyond contactless operations: Human-centered customer experience
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Is your supply chain risk blind—or risk resilient?
Article
Is your supply chain risk blind—or risk resilient?
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Jump-starting resilient and reimagined operations
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Jump-starting resilient and reimagined operations
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From surviving to thriving: Reimagining the post-COVID-19 return
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From surviving to thriving: Reimagining the post-COVID-19 return
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Coronavirus’ impact on service organizations: Weathering the storm
Article
Coronavirus’ impact on service organizations: Weathering the storm
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Managing a manufacturing plant through the coronavirus crisis
Article
Managing a manufacturing plant through the coronavirus crisis
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Featured Experts

Philipp Radtke
Senior PartnerMunich
Advises automotive manufacturers and suppliers, construction equipment makers, and other industrial producers as they improve...
Rafael Westinner
Senior PartnerMadrid
Leads end-to-end operational transformations for industrial clients, working along the operational value chain to boost productivity...
Kweilin Ellingrud
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerMinneapolis
Leads insights and discussions on the future of work, gender equality, racial equity, and productivity. Serves clients across...
Ignacio Marcos
PartnerMadrid
Focuses on client service in consumer and medical-technology companies, with an emphasis on end-to-end transformations
Ed Barriball
PartnerWashington DC
Advises leaders of organizations that manage complex manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics operations
Martin Linder
Senior PartnerMunich
Leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team; global colead for the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies as well as our sustainability...

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