Strategy in a digital age
How to develop corporate and business-unit strategies in a digitally disrupted world.
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Scaling a transformative culture through a digital factory
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Building a digital culture might be the most difficult issue companies face. Using a “digital factory” is one way...
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Spurring digital banking in the Gulf
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Regional consumers purchase everything online but financial services. Bankers and regulators need to step up the pace of innovation....
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The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress
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Growth is shifting, disruption is accelerating, and societal tensions are rising. Confronting these dynamics will help you craft...
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Facing up to digital disruption: Reinventing the core with bold business strategy
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A solid, industry-specific digital strategy and cutting-edge execution can set the stage for increased revenue growth and a better...
Understanding digital
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A digital-strategy framework
How do you make sense of digital disruption? McKinsey's Angus Dawson and Chris Bradley walk through our new framework for understanding how it changes the nature of supply, demand, or both.
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The seven decisions that matter in a digital transformation: A CEO’s guide to reinvention
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A successful digital transformation requires making trade-off decisions. Here’s how successful CEOs guide their businesses’...
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From disrupted to disruptor: Reinventing your business by transforming the core
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Companies must be open to radical reinvention to find new, significant, and sustainable sources of revenue.
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Adopting an ecosystem view of business technology
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To fully benefit from new business technology, CIOs need to adapt their traditional IT functions to the opportunities and challenges...
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The case for digital reinvention
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Digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun to penetrate industries. As it continues its advance, the implications...
Responding to digital
Navigating digital disruption
McKinsey's Chris Bradley explains our S-curve framework for understanding the life cycle of industry disruption and what that means for incumbents.
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The new battleground for marketing-led growth
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In the digital age, consumers are always shopping around. New research shows that hooking them early is the strongest path to...
Report - MGI Research
The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world
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Big data’s potential just keeps growing. Taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic...
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An executive’s guide to software development
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This essential capability is a blind spot for many nontech leaders.
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An incumbent’s guide to digital disruption
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Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognize the crucial thresholds in their life cycle, and act in time....
Implementing digital
The case for digital reinvention
McKinsey’s Laura LaBerge explains the results of our survey into digitization across industries and details the case for digital reinvention.
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How to start building your next-generation operating model
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Each company’s path to a new operating model is unique. But successful transformations are all constructed with the same...
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The next-generation operating model for the digital world
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Companies need to increase revenues, lower costs, and delight customers. Doing that requires reinventing the operating model.
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How telecom companies can win in the digital revolution
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For telecoms, making smart use of digital technologies calls for a wholesale digital transformation. Five steps are needed to...
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Making digital strategy a reality in insurance
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Digital transformation is challenging in insurance, where change must happen without interrupting the flow of daily business....
Industry perspectives
Report - MGI Research
How technology is reshaping supply and demand for natural resources
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The ways we consume energy and produce commodities are changing. This transformation could benefit the global economy, but resource...
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A future for mobile operators: The keys to successful reinvention
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By transforming their networks and operations with the newest technologies, mobile operators could double their cash-flow conversion...
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From hardware to software: How semiconductor companies can lead a successful transformation
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Many semiconductor companies struggle when attempting to transition from hardware to software. How can they improve the process?...
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Closing the digital gap in pharma
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New research on the digital maturity of pharma, relative to other industries, reveals clear opportunities to improve performance...
From our archive
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Strategy under uncertainty
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The traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads executives to underestimate uncertainty. This can be downright dangerous. A four-level framework can help.
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Unbundling the corporation
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The forces that fractured the computer industry are bearing down on all industries. In the face of these changes, companies must ask themselves: what business are we in?