McKinsey Quarterly Audio
McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 3
Data culture
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.
Highlights
Data culture
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
Why data culture matters
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Organizational culture can accelerate the application of analytics, amplify its power, and steer companies away from risky outcomes. Here are seven principles that underpin a healthy data culture.
Making small teams work
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Unleashing the power of small, independent teams
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Small, independent teams are the lifeblood of the agile organization. Top executives can unleash them by driving ambition, removing red tape, and helping managers adjust to the new norms.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The agile manager
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Who manages in an agile organization? And what exactly do they do?
Other features
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The overlooked essentials of employee well-being
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If you really want to increase employees’ health and well-being, focus on job control and social support.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Accelerating product development: The tools you need now
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To speed innovation and fend off disruption, R&D organizations at incumbent companies can borrow the tools and techniques that digital natives use to get ahead.
Commentary - McKinsey Quarterly
The economics of artificial intelligence
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Rotman School of Management professor Ajay Agrawal explains how AI changes the cost of prediction and what this means for business.
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
Debiasing the corporation: An interview with Nobel laureate Richard Thaler
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The University of Chicago professor explains how executives can battle back against biases that can affect their decision making.
Research, trends, and emerging thinking
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Telling a good innovation story
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Appealing to people’s emotions helps new ideas cut through the clutter.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Artificial intelligence: Why a digital base is critical
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Early AI adopters are starting to shift industry profit pools. Companies need strong digital capabilities to compete.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Shaking up the value chain
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Data and digitization are creating a growing array of value-creation choices in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, mining, and energy.
Commentary - McKinsey Quarterly
Universities and the conglomerate challenge
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Complex business combinations have been unwinding for years. Will the bell toll for universities?