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As the Web experience evolves, smartphones may soon live up to their name, and every business's mobile strategy will grow in importance.


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Developing a fine-grained look at how digital consumers behave

July 2013—Consumers are changing the ways they use digital platforms at lightning speed. To benefit, companies must take a refined look below the surface to understand who is doing what.more

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Thriving in a ‘PC-plus’ world: An interview with Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing

June 2013—The Chinese computer maker—now among the world’s largest—expects mobile devices to supplement PCs, not replace them.more

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Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson

May 2013—A leading expert explores the new relationship between man and machine and the challenges that emerge when innovation is decoupled from growth in jobs and incomes.more

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Connecting everything: A conversation with Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior

May 2013—Cisco’s chief technology and strategy officer describes how the exponential growth of connectivity between people and devices, both mobile and network, will change commerce, business systems, and individual behavior.more

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Eric Schmidt on disruptive technologies

May 2013–From computational biology to 3-D printing, Google’s executive chairman provides a look into the future of technologies that will change business models and lives.more

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India’s Internet opportunity

March 2013—The country is on the verge of a huge expansion in Internet usage. If it manages its online engagement intelligently, GDP could soar.more

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iConsumers: Life online

January 2013–New digital technologies are multiplying, changing consumer behavior and spending. McKinsey research explores the opportunities in digital marketing, detail the role digital and mobile tools play in the consumer's decision process, and review major global changes.

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Minding your digital business: McKinsey Global Survey results

May 2012—Executives expect that new digital technologies will transform their businesses, but many admit their companies are far from prepared in developing capabilities and meeting challenges.more

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Mobility disruption: A CIO perspective

September 2012—Enterprise mobility is poised to fundamentally change the IT landscape. Here’s an overview of the opportunities and some early lessons on how to manage the associated security risks, costs, and organizational challenges. more

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Automating the bank’s back office

July 2012—The dream of achieving rapid, large-scale process automation is becoming a reality for some banks. Competitors cannot afford to miss the opportunity to transform their own back-office processes.more

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The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies

July 2012—The most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are largely untapped. By using social technologies, companies can raise the productivity of knowledge workers by 20 to 25 percent.more

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Sizing the Internet economy in emerging countries

April 2012–The Internet is now penetrating emerging economies at a rapid speed with the promise of rich economic benefits, write Olivia Nottebohm, James Manyika and Michael Chui in the Financial Times.more

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Internet matters: Essays in digital transformation

March 2012—This compendium features essays by experts from the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey's Business Technology Office, and McKinsey's High Tech Practice. It tackles the theme of digital transformation as part of an ongoing research program on the economic impact of technology. more

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The impact of internet technologies: Search

July 2011–McKinsey's new report assesses the impact of search technologies, looking at how they unlock value and identifying the major beneficiaries, including businesses, individuals, and public service entities.

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Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch

August 2010—Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment.more

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The Internet of Things

March 2010—More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.more

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The future of mobile data

February 2011–Venkat Alturi discusses his research into the changes driving mobile data: proliferation of smartphones, maturity of networks, development of applications—and how they have created a multibillion-dollar market.

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Rebooting Japan’s high-tech sector

June 2011—Japan’s once-storied high-tech sector has hit hard times. Only courageous management can restore its global competitiveness.more

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The world gone digital: Insights from McKinsey's global iConsumer research

May 2011–An ever-expanding array of digital devices and platforms is changing the way we communicate, socialize, play, purchase and discover. To understand evolving consumer digital behaviors, McKinsey launched a unique research effort in 2008 which we call iConsumer.

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Reshaping IT management for turbulent times

December 2010—A new model for managing IT combines factory-style productivity to keep costs down with a more nimble, innovation-focused approach to adapt to rapid change.more

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A better way to measure shop floor costs

August 2010—Disparities between financial and factory-level productivity measures exist at many manufacturing facilities. Better alignment can improve efficiency, pricing, and product strategies.more

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