Monthly Highlights, October 2024

Monthly Highlights, October 2024

Technology officers are adapting their strategies to ensure their organizations capitalize on the transformative trends impacting global businesses. This is a pivotal opportunity for growth, but it demands clear focus and capability development. In our featured story, McKinsey’s Aamer Baig, Jeffrey Lewis, Klemens Hjartar, Rob Cain, and Sven Blumberg reveal a set of shifts that tech officers can make to meet the demands of business leaders. Our second featured story helps data leaders think through seven essential priorities that reflect the most important changes that are occurring, what the main complexities are, and where executives can focus their energy to realize the data-driven enterprise of 2030. Other highlights include the following topics:

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progress, decline, and stagnation in women’s representation and experiences in the workplace

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how to successfully navigate the next phase of the energy transition

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leadership lessons and the future of AI from the CEO of Dell Technologies, Michael Dell

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three steps to get more employees involved in and committed to a transformation

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A new dawn for the technology officer

As companies strive to create value from AI, generative AI, and other rapidly evolving technologies, enterprise tech officers will make fundamental shifts in the way they operate.

Prepare for what’s ahead

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Charting a path to the data- and AI-driven enterprise of 2030

Generative AI has increased the focus on data, putting pressure on companies to make substantive shifts to build a truly data-based organization.

7 priorities

THIS MONTH’s HIGHLIGHTS

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Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report

In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago.
Recommendations for companies

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Global Energy Perspective 2024

As the global energy transition enters a new phase, our Global Energy Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the possible road ahead.
Read the report

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Direct from Michael Dell: Leadership lessons and the future of AI

The CEO of Dell Technologies weighs in on what’s next for AI, how companies can successfully transform in the face of constant disruption, and how his leadership style has changed over 40 years.
See the interview

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Going all in: Why employee ‘will’ can make or break transformations

Tapping the organization’s collective energy to implement change is crucial for transformation success. A three-step process creates the momentum to meet the challenges ahead.
Learn the 3 E’s

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Five fundamental truths: How B2B winners keep growing

Our latest B2B Pulse Survey reveals that across all sectors and regions, market leaders continue to experiment, invest, and commit to omnichannel sales as the path to sustainable growth.
Plus, 3 archetypes of decision makers

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Leading from the inside out: Why CEOs must make time for self-reflection

The authors of a new book on the journey of leadership explain why this era of unprecedented global change demands a new style of leadership—one that reflects the inner world of the CEO along with the needs of organizations and employees.
Leader, know thyself

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An unconstrained future: How generative AI could reshape B2B sales

Technology alone is never enough for true productivity

A data leader’s operating guide to scaling gen AI

The beauty boom and beyond: Can the industry maintain its growth?

HR leaders’ role in M&A: An interview with Lisa Blair Davis

A look at the technology trends that matter most

What the real estate industry needs to know about experiential retail

Smart money? Retail investors, intrinsic investors, and the Magnificent Seven

Has the drive toward human development been thrown into reverse?

Special features

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McKinsey Explainers

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McKinsey Themes

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McKinsey on Books

Explore this month’s best-selling business books prepared exclusively for McKinsey Publishing by Circana.
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The Weekend Read

Curated picks for your downtime.
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McKinsey Classics

Read our 2012 classic “Encouraging your people to take the long view” for three ways leaders can build health into performance management.
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