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Oct 21, 2018
Robust growth makes payments a dynamic sector for incumbents—and a draw for new competitors.
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Oct 19, 2018
Not all sales compensation is the same. Structuring incentives using these four building blocks, can improve the bottom line.
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Oct 19, 2018
The director of the national museum of Dutch art and history describes the central role of agility in the museum's massive renovation project—and in its drive for perpetual renewal.
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Oct 19, 2018
Many new CEOs reshuffle their top teams, but surprisingly few make them more diverse. Can we do better?
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Oct 18, 2018
To maximize the potential of advanced analytics, banks and payments providers need to design an organizational structure that supports the mission.
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Oct 18, 2018
Digital operating models and new data-driven tools can not only deliver value to customers but can also help keep operators' own houses in order.
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Oct 18, 2018
While most companies understand the importance of analytics, fewer than 20 percent have maximized the potential and implemented AA at scale.
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Oct 18, 2018
Yesterday's tentative approaches won't deliver; you need absolute clarity about digital's demands, galvanized leadership, unparalleled agility, and the resolve to bet boldly.
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Oct 17, 2018
Even if a technology race develops, some companies will adopt rapidly, but others less so—and the benefits of AI will vary accordingly, write Jacques Bughin and Jeongmin Seong in Harvard Business Review.
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Oct 17, 2018
Changes in global meat consumption will be driven by local growth patterns. But opportunities still abound for companies that master the tools to understand the market's shifting dynamics.
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Oct 16, 2018
Does the recent turbulence in emerging markets mean global growth will slow? New research suggests otherwise.
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Oct 16, 2018
Is the way you measure product-development performance harming your company's health? New research suggests that it might be.
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Oct 15, 2018
Operations 4.0 builds on technology to deliver major productivity and performance improvement. But human beings are at least as important for sustained Ops 4.0 success.
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Oct 15, 2018
AI promises considerable economic benefits, even as it disrupts the world of work. These three priorities will help achieve good outcomes.
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Oct 15, 2018
Payments providers that adopt advanced analytics to develop integrated approaches to customer service are seeing significant improvements.
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Oct 15, 2018
Governments in developing economies often lack the capacity to conduct thorough reviews of proposed capital projects. A streamlined approach can identify those ready for funding.
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Oct 15, 2018
Companies pursuing revenue synergies can't take them for granted. Leaders need a clear grasp of where those synergies lie—and the persistence to capture them.
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Oct 15, 2018
Never mind the recent turbulence—emerging-market fundamentals remain sound.
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Oct 15, 2018
New data tools are giving government agencies the upper hand in taming fraud, waste, and abuse. Lessons from scaled approaches show how to capture the hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.
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Oct 12, 2018
Favorable market returns helped to build up Western European private banking profit pools in 2017, but banks need to assert more control over their profit growth.
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Oct 12, 2018
In a sector undergoing unprecedented change, five muscles will define the successful leaders of the future.
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Oct 12, 2018
Back in 2008, we learned the hard way that good times can morph into bad times before most of us realize what's happening. Where are we now?
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Oct 12, 2018
Connected buildings could introduce a new way of working. Here's what it will take for them to become mainstream.
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Oct 12, 2018
Handled well, AI could lead to a virtuous cycle of higher productivity, income growth, and demand that can create more jobs and prosperity, writes Jacques Bughin in ITU News.
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Oct 12, 2018
Automation has great potential to create value—but only for businesses that carefully design and execute it.
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Oct 12, 2018
The cloud-service cofounder and CEO talks about innovation, disruption, and harnessing the next big thing.
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Oct 11, 2018
To prevail in the renewed war for talent, banks will need to deploy new capabilities in data, analytics, and organizational science.
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Oct 11, 2018
To meet customers' needs, apparel companies need to focus on nearshoring, automation, and sustainability.
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Oct 11, 2018
Many pharma and medtech companies have a digital strategy. But to pull off a true digital transformation, it's crucial to focus on culture and mindset, according to leaders who attended a recent European roundtable.
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Oct 11, 2018
Four major forces are shaping cities of the future. How can they thrive in the face of challenges and change?
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Oct 11, 2018
A clear playbook is emerging for how to integrate and capitalize on advanced technologies—across an entire company, and in any industry.
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Oct 10, 2018
There are lessons for other industries in the way pharma companies use mergers to innovate, work more efficiently, and bolster product portfolios.
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Oct 10, 2018
European healthcare service providers are complex and fragmented, but with niche market knowledge and a creative approach, investors can create substantial value.
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Oct 10, 2018
Without a new approach, airline loyalty programs risk alienating many customers.
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Oct 09, 2018
As banks rush to transform their customer experience, it's easy to trip up. Here's how to execute a step change that moves ahead of competitors.
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Oct 09, 2018
Want to better understand what digital is doing to your business? Look to the underlying economics.
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Oct 09, 2018
Highly tailored training and measuring its success feature prominently among the methods top performers use.
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Oct 08, 2018
Traditional ways of managing IT infrastructure can impede the fast-paced delivery of digital solutions. Agile methods can be used to boost efficiency, speed, and quality.
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Oct 08, 2018
By mining huge reserves of customer data, banking analytics leaders are meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands of commercial customers, with new levels of convenience and cost efficiency.
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Oct 08, 2018
Many real estate firms have long made decisions based on a combination of intuition and traditional, retrospective data. Today, a host of new variables make it possible to paint more vivid pictures of a location's future risks and opportunities.
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Oct 08, 2018
By combining two simple metrics, companies can gain valuable insights into their innovation performance.
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Oct 06, 2018
New technologies can give Switzerland's economy a much-needed productivity boost, but bold digital transformation and skills development are imperative.
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Oct 05, 2018
As innovation reshapes the pharma landscape, pharma companies will need to revisit their R&D operating models to thrive.
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Oct 05, 2018
There are enormous growth opportunities in Sri Lanka for companies that boost their Digital Quotient in four critical dimensions.
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Oct 05, 2018
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, explores how leaders can build a corporate culture in harmony with analytics efforts, suggests how to unleash agile teams, and discusses the importance of maintaining employees' health and well-being.
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Oct 05, 2018
By working to be a better champion of its customers, PayPal has seen its transactions and customer base grow and satisfaction among employees swell.
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Oct 05, 2018
Technological change is poised to disrupt the drilling and completion business while introducing new ways of working.
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Oct 04, 2018
To boost organic growth, most companies need a diverse set of initiatives—and how you sequence them matters.
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Oct 04, 2018
Finding mutually beneficial areas for collaboration may be closer than you think. The key? Shifting from "just-in-time" hiring to retraining.
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Oct 04, 2018
To capture everything digital can offer in increasing reliability and reducing costs, companies should boost their digital-maintenance ambitions.
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Oct 04, 2018
Although many companies have committed to increasing gender diversity in the fashion industry, progress toward fixing it has been slow. We partnered with Glamour and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to understand why, and what can be done.
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Oct 03, 2018
Crude oil prices stayed relatively high and stable during the second quarter. While margins improved for many oilfield services and equipment firms, some still struggle to crack the code of profitability.
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Oct 03, 2018
For some incumbent banks, the launch of a digital-only business can help meet customer needs and defend against fintechs.
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Oct 02, 2018
Are you a market leader? It may be time to start doing things faster.
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Oct 02, 2018
Looking for the most successful electric-vehicle segment? Take the e-bus.
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Oct 01, 2018
Rather than fear the disruptive potential of insurtechs, commercial insurance executives should view them as a catalyst for digitization.
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Oct 01, 2018
To build and lead an agile organization, it's crucial that senior leaders develop new mind-sets and capabilities to transform themselves, their teams, and the organization.
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Oct 01, 2018
Thousands of megawatts of renewable resources—chiefly wind and solar—are in the works. What types of grid services can these provide as electricity markets and policies evolve?
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Oct 01, 2018
Large-scale automation of business processes requires a new development approach.
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Oct 01, 2018
The US healthcare services industry is at a tipping point, but who—or what—is driving the undercurrents of change?
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Oct 01, 2018
Although the risk environment is growing more perilous and costly, leading companies are blazing a path to resilience and value by embedding strategic risk capabilities throughout the organization.
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Sep 28, 2018
Anchoring bias can hold back the budgeting process, influencing your targets despite your best efforts. Address it and refocus difficult conversations.
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Sep 28, 2018
Understanding how blockchain creates business value is essential for companies to identify the right use cases and move beyond small pilots to widespread adoption.
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Sep 27, 2018
In this interview, Tamim Saleh cuts through the hype around artificial intelligence with guidance for executives about where and how to employ AI in their businesses.
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Sep 27, 2018
Respondents express declining optimism on the economy, especially in emerging markets. The United States gains more attention as a destination for new business opportunities.
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Sep 27, 2018
Three practices can help differentiate successful companies from those that struggle to gain traction.
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Sep 27, 2018
An executive explains how the pay-TV company saved money and pleased customers by designing hardware for repair and reuse.
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Sep 26, 2018
The same technological tools making fraud more pervasive in banking and payments are enabling firms to meet the challenge.
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Sep 25, 2018
Despite great promise in digital advancements, many companies are struggling to embrace tech-enabled transformation. Mining players need to rev three engines to tap into the true potential.
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Sep 25, 2018
A compelling mash-up of analytics, data, and talent management is showing companies where HR misses the mark.
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Sep 25, 2018
Public institutions can turn remarkable short-term efforts into meaningful long-term results.
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Sep 24, 2018
Cyber programs often miss the significant portion of risk generated by employees, and current tools are blunt instruments. A new method can yield better results.
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Sep 24, 2018
Manufacturing digitization could boost heavy-industry profit margins by three to five points—but only if people can make the new technologies work at scale. The first article in a new series looks at the opportunity and the sector's progress.
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Sep 24, 2018
Despite their best intentions, executives fall prey to cognitive and organizational biases that get in the way of good decision making. In this series, we highlight some of them and offer effective ways to respond.
Our topic this time?
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Sep 21, 2018
Prime Day has emerged as a mammoth shopping event. But surprising insights are reshaping the retail sector.
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Sep 21, 2018
Plastics waste is hurting the chemical industry as well as the environment. By taking the lead on recycling, chemical players could add a new dimension to the industry and help solve the problem.
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Sep 20, 2018
New analytical capabilities have the potential to transform the way banks and other payment providers price products and services.
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Sep 20, 2018
Top executives at one innovative software development firm share how they harnessed artificial intelligence to create a more diverse—and more productive—workforce.
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Sep 20, 2018
Complex business combinations have been unwinding for years. Will the bell toll for universities?
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Sep 19, 2018
Banks have a strong foundation in using data. New research reveals how they can get even more from their analytics investments.
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Sep 19, 2018
There is no one-size-fits-all approach for governments to manage cybersecurity. But asking some key questions can help leaders get started.
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Sep 18, 2018
Did you know it all along? Then you may be a victim of hindsight bias.
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Sep 18, 2018
The most successful emerging-economy companies, which tend to be export-oriented, not only boost growth, but also help to spur progress in the business environment., write Anu Madgavkar and Jeongmin Seong in Project Syndicate.
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Sep 17, 2018
The best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom, write Jonathan Woetzel, Anu Madgavkar and James Manyika in Harvard Business Review.
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Sep 17, 2018
The country's crime rate has decreased drastically in recent years after the police commissioner shifted to a focus on prevention instead of prosecution.
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Sep 17, 2018
Our research offers a comprehensive picture of the rail-infrastructure-technology industry—and a road map for rolling stock and rail infrastructure OEMs looking to craft a strategic response to the current megatrends digitization, connectivity, and autonomous-operation technology.
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Sep 14, 2018
In mergers, a traditional one-size-fits-all approach for procurement synergies takes too long and leaves too much money on the table. To deliver more value sooner, match the levers you use to the deal archetype.
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Sep 14, 2018
Eight Asean emerging economies have achieved rapid and consistent growth that far outstrips their peers, enabling them to narrow the wealth gap with advanced economies, write Kaushik Das and Diaan-Yi Lin in Business times Singapore.
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Sep 14, 2018
In mergers, a one-size-fits-all approach for procurement synergies takes too long and leaves too much money on the table. To deliver more value sooner, match the levers you use to the type of deal you're making.
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Sep 13, 2018
Almost half of the emerging economies that grew quickly and consistently in recent decades are in Southeast Asia. The challenges now are to maintain that momentum as circumstances change and to curb income inequality.
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Sep 13, 2018
Great strides have been made since 2008 to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and recession that followed. Yet there is more debt than ever in the global financial system.
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Sep 12, 2018
McKinsey senior partner Celia Huber explains how companies can build and benefit from gender diversity on boards.
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Sep 12, 2018
The US tech sector isn't doing enough to build pathways into tech for women—particularly women of color. What is behind this gender gap, and what can tech companies do about it?
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Sep 12, 2018
Fostering the growth of large, globally competitive firms can elevate emerging economies to the rank of outperformer, write Oliver Tonby and Anu Madgavkar in World Economic Forum.
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Sep 11, 2018
If you really want to increase employees' health and well-being, focus on job control and social support.
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Sep 11, 2018
Bridging the gender gap in the Dutch labor market brings significant opportunities both for individuals and the wider economy.
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Sep 11, 2018
Creativity drives business innovation and growth. But is it reserved for the lucky few?
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Sep 11, 2018
In 2020, the global limit on sulfur content for all marine fuels will be lowered dramatically, sending shockwaves through global refined-product markets while widening margins and differentials. Most refiners are still trying to come to grips with the potential threats and opportunities that will emerge as a result of this regulation.
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Sep 11, 2018
Some emerging economies have grown much faster and more consistently than others. Underlying these success stories is a pro-growth policy agenda and the standout role of large companies.
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