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David Gelernter, Yale computer science professor and survivor of the Unabomber, has written a fascinating treatise on the future of the Internet . McKinsey Quarterly just published an interview with Chip Heath , in which he explains how his ideas are relevant for C-suite execs. Useful and/or intriguing ideas we've come across this week, plus the occasional worthwhile distraction. The Internet's moment of truth David
HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, March 12, 2010
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Weekly Wrap-up: Location, Location, Location, and More...
Internet of Things McKinsey: Get Ready For Sensor-Driven Business Models Ads with Eyes: Keeping Digital Signage in Check Google Wants Your Lamp to Tell You How Much Power It's Using Get ReadWriteWeb's report, The Real-Time Web and its Future . Our channel ReadWriteCloud , sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization Our top story this week was location - location-based networks, services, advertising and even "feelings". Read on for our coverage and analysis.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Worth Your Time: How to Give Feedback, Fixing Frontline Management, and Elliot Spitzer
Frontline managers get less training and development than any other group, their jobs are poorly structured, and senior executives don't understand how they spend their time or the problems they face, according to a new study by McKinsey . Manhattan's future crosstown bus lane, which promises to improve bus speeds by 35%, will be modeled on Bogota's TransMilenio system, which in turn found its solution for cheap, scalable mass transit in Curitaba, Brazil. Useful and/or intriguing ideas we've come across this week, plus the occasional worthwhile distraction. Role model
HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, March 4, 2010
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  • McKinsey’s Cloud Computing Report Is Partly Cloudy
    McKinsey & Company released a report, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” yesterday that claims that large corporations could lose money through the adoption of cloud computing. Virtualization is the optimal way to go, says McKinsey, and by implementing virtualization in-house, corporations can reduce costs when factoring in depreciation and tax write-offs. The report paints cloud computing as over-hyped and maintains that cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) overcharge large companies for a service the companies could do better on their own.
    TechCrunch - Thursday, April 16, 2009
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  • 25 Stretch Goals for Management
    In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. The two-day event, organized by the Management Lab with support from McKinsey & Company, brought together veteran management experts such as CK Prahalad , Henry Mintzberg , and Peter Senge ; distinguished social commentators including Kevin Kelly , James Surowiecki and Shoshana Zuboff ; and a number of progressive CEOs, including Terri Kelly from WL Gore , Vineet Nayar from HCL Technologies
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • Yet Another Glimpse At the Future of Work
    About a month ago the summary of McKinsey’s research on the use of the Web and social computing tools in the knowledge-based workplace made the rounds of the blogosphere and the Web.  In the context of McKinsey’s research summary, for two reasons. The second because towards the end of the article The New Organisation McKinsey and Mercer (two high-end blue-ribbon management . ( Cross-posted at the AppGap blog ) It brought to mind an article from the January 2006 survey "Knowledge and the Company" in The Economist titled " The New Organisation
    Wirearchy - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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  • What's Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, says Roger Martin
    By pushing the principles of scientific management too far, corporations are short-circuiting their own futures, says the designiest dean of all the business schools. "The The enemy of innovation is the phrase 'prove it,'" Roger Martin says. The folks at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG should be happy that Roger Martin likes his job. Bring in the folks whose job it is to imagine the future, and who are experts job. Otherwise, he could cause them a heap of trouble.
    Fast Company - Thursday, November 5, 2009
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  • Luxury Brands Look to China
    With the future of our global economy still uncertain, more and more executives are looking to China, specifically to the Chinese consumer — who just might be able to lift the global economy out of recession. New research from McKinsey & Co. McKinsey also reports that presently, about 80% of China's wealthy are between the ages of 18 and 45 (versus indicates that, by 2015, China will be home to the world's fourth-largest population of wealthy households, an estimated 4.4 million.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 11, 2009
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  • Are Your Best Female Employees a Flight Risk?
    Research conducted by both Catalyst and McKinsey & Company demonstrates that companies with significant numbers of women in management have a much higher return on investment. Charting Your Future" is a career-counseling workshop customized for high-powered women in Asia. "The One of your company's most powerful competitive weapons may at this very moment be cleaning out her desk — or contemplating doing so. Can you afford to let her go?
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, October 5, 2009
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  • The Data on Martyrdom
    They point to a McKinsey report entitled, "How the World?s McKinsey found that South Korean schools draw from the top five percent of college graduates. where the future is. ...Tags: In what can only be called an effort to maintain a culture of martyrdom, when all else fails, traditionalists argue that higher compensation offerings in the nonprofit sector will not attract better talent. This effort at argument is actually progress.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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  • Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008
    The well regarded McKinsey & Company predicted last year that advertising will actually have fairly significant growth challenges for the next five years from high demand and lack of maturity in the management of online advertising through traditional outlets. My personal take: I've seen enough pent-up demand that I don't think even an economic downtown will noticeable affect the fortunes of online adveritising for the foreseeable future. Web-based Software as a service (SaaS), aka Office 2.0, It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year.
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, January 2, 2008
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  • New Technology Supporting Informal Learning
    Future developments will focus on realizing these concepts as software or at least software prototypes. Future Future developments around the concept of the conversational and interactive environment begin with preparations for a second offering of the Connectivism course in 2009. To summarize: future developments have focused on realizing the concepts displayed in the Connectivism course as software or at least software prototypes. Abstract We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning.
    Half an Hour - Saturday, April 25, 2009
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  • Come Up With Your Own Target Stock Price For Apple Or Google With Trefis
    Started by three engineers and math whizzes from MIT and Cornell (Manish Jhunjhunwala, Adam Donovan, and Cem Ozkaynak) who did time at McKinsey and UBS bank, Trefis breaks down a stock price by the contribution of a company’s major products and businesses. You can change the underlying assumptions by simply dragging lines on charts forecasting the future price of the iPhone, its market share going out to 2016, and so forth.  Have you ever wanted to be a Wall Street analyst or come up with your own discounted cash flow model for a publicly traded company? Me neither, but
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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