McKinsey January Highlights: Using analytics to get ahead

Monthly Highlights | January 2017

Editor’s choice

The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world

Big data’s potential just keeps growing. Taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make better, faster decisions.

Compete on data →

This month’s highlights

Global migration’s impact and opportunity

Migration has become a flashpoint for debate. But McKinsey Global Institute research finds that it generates significant economic benefits. more →

What can we expect in China in 2017?

Provided geopolitical movement doesn’t derail his predictions, Gordon Orr sees a year of slowing growth, headaches for multinationals, and demographic anxiety. more →

The hidden toll of workplace incivility

Research shows that hurtful workplace behavior can depress performance, increase employee turnover, and even mar customer relationships. more →

The state of fashion

Growth in the $2.4 trillion industry may accelerate in 2017, according to the first joint report from McKinsey and the Business of Fashion. more →

Nokia’s next chapter

The Finnish giant has exited mobile phones and doubled down on its networking business. Chairman Risto Siilasmaa explains why—and how. more →

Are today’s CFOs ready for tomorrow’s demands on finance?

Survey results show that CFOs know they must build new skills to lead. more →

Also new

Video meets the Internet of Things

The next acronym you need to know about: RPA (robotic process automation)

Using agile to accelerate your data transformation

What’s stalling progress for women at work?

Rewiring Citi for the digital age

Productivity: The route to Brexit success

Being patient-centric in a digitizing world

McKinsey Classics

Inventing the future

In a fascinating 1995 essay, Jay Forrester—the inventor of systems dynamics, a way of “inventing the future”—explains the long arc of his life and ideas.

Learn to “invent the future” →

Top Ten articles

Find out which articles were most popular on McKinsey.com last year.

1. What CEOs are reading

2. Ahead of the curve: The future of performance management

3. Getting beyond the BS of leadership literature

Read the full Top Ten list →

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