The McKinsey Quarterly

Five routes to more innovative problem solving

April 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Olivier Leclerc and Mihnea Moldoveanu explain how and why tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To…

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A McKinsey “Classic”: The granularity of growth

March 30, 2013

Here is an exerpt from an article rated by readers as one of the most popular ever in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and co-authored by Mehrdad Baghai, Sven Smit, and S. Patrick Viguerie. They explain how…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/4/13)

March 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster…

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Big data in the age of the telegraph

March 7, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Caitlin Rosenthal for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, she includes Daniel McCallum’s 1854 organizational design for the New York and Erie Railroad, a design that…

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How to battle-test your innovation strategy

February 7, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Marla M. Capozzi, John Horn, and Ari Kellen explain how and why leading companies use war games to focus better on…

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