In a time of rapid commoditization and a nearly infinite supply of low-cost attackers, where do High Tech executives look for competitive advantage? Innovation is key, but so too are gaining the highest levels of capital productivity while getting the most from operations and sales & marketing.
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 | | | Six ways to make Web 2.0 work | | The McKinsey Quarterly, February 2009
Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them.
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| | | Building better links in high-tech supply chains | | The McKinsey Quarterly, December 2008
As high-tech supply chains increase in complexity, they become harder to manage. Collaboration between OEMs, suppliers, and retailers is the answer.
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| | | The cost of going global for China's high-tech companies | | The McKinsey Quarterly, July 2008
Chinese technology companies are competing successfully on their home turf. Global markets may be another story, at least in the short run. | | Read more on the McKinsey Quarterly site |
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| | | The next step in open innovation | | The McKinsey Quarterly, June 2008
The creation of knowledge, products, and services by online communities of companies and consumers is still in its earliest stages. Who knows where it will lead? | | Read more on the McKinsey Quarterly site |
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| | | Emerging platform wars in enterprise software | | | The rapid growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) is driving a new generation of platforms in enterprise software. How will these new "SaaS platforms" impact your business? | | Read more |
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| | | Enterprise software customer survey | | April 2008
This year's survey of more than 850 enterprise software customers by McKinsey & Company in collaboration with the SandHill Group (www.sandhill.com) and the Software and Interop conferences showed increasing acceptance of subscription and on-demand models but, more surprisingly, a high portion (74 percent) of enterprise customers favorably disposed to adopting SaaS platforms. | | Read more |
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| | | Distributed co-creation: The next wave in innovation | | | Innovation will increasingly be performed by dispersed networks of individuals. Companies should learn how to tap into these communities of collaboration. Distributed co-creation, the production of joint work products by loosely coupled networks of participants using iterative and decentralized approaches, is becoming an increasingly important mode of innovation. | Launch the Report (PDF - 1.19 MB ) |
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| | | Creating value in the semiconductor industry | | | To follow the example set by industry leaders, we recommend that semiconductor companies take a dual approach to optimize value creation. | | Launch the Report (PDF - 1.03 MB) |
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| | | Commercial productivity | | August 2006
Companies often look to new products and channels, as well as to acquisitions, to achieve revenue growth. In the hunt for new revenue, one important point is often overlooked: For companies with complex sales and distribution, an excellent place to search for growth is inside the organization, especially by optimizing the performance of the direct and indirect sales forces. | | Launch the White Paper (PDF - 511 KB) |
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