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How to put your money where your strategy is
article | McKinsey Quarterly

How to put your money where your strategy is

March 2012—Most companies allocate the same resources to the same business units year after year. That makes it difficult to realize strategic goals and undermines performance. Here’s how to overcome inertia.more

The power of an independent corporate center
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The power of an independent corporate center

March 2012—To develop a winning corporate strategy, you may need more muscle in your headquarters.more

Breaking strategic inertia Tips from two leaders
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Breaking strategic inertia: Tips from two leaders

April 2012—A CFO and a business unit head explain how they overcome the barriers that all too often separate capital, talent, and other resources from vital strategic goals.more

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Five routes to more innovative problem solving

April 2013—Tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To start that process, and stimulate novel thinking, leaders should look through multiple lenses.more

How social intelligence can guide decisions
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How ‘social intelligence’ can guide decisions

November 2012—By offering decision makers rich real-time data, social media is giving some companies fresh strategic insight. more

Capturing business value with social technologies
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Capturing business value with social technologies

November 2012—As these powerful technologies shake up productivity and growth across industries, they will create new organizational imperatives.more

Battle-test your innovation strategy
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Battle-test your innovation strategy

December 2012—Leading companies use war games to focus better on their competitors, while improving the way they identify, shape, and seize opportunities to innovate.more

Have you tested your strategy lately
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Have you tested your strategy lately?

January 2011—Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy, and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company.more

Wining the $30 trillion decathlon
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Winning the $30 trillion decathlon: How to succeed in emerging markets

October 2012—Annual consumption in emerging markets will rise to $30 trillion, from $12 trillion, by 2025. McKinsey experts discuss how multinationals can harness the biggest economic force in the history of capitalism.more

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A fine-grained view of the sources of growth
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A fine-grained view of the sources of growth

April 2008—The authors of The Granularity of Growth explain why the best strategies begin with a precise understanding of market and product opportunities.more

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The next frontier for innovation
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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity

May 2011—Big data will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus—as long as the right policies and enablers are in place.more

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Global forces An introduction
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Global forces: An introduction

June 2010—Five crucibles of change will restructure the world economy for the foreseeable future. Companies that understand them will stand the best chance of shaping it.more

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economic power of cities
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Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities

March 2011—Six hundred cities—the City 600—are projected to generate more than 60 percent of global growth to 2025. Within this group, companies need to adjust their strategy to include the 577 fast-growing "middleweight cities."more

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The CEOs guide to corporate finance
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The CEO’s guide to corporate finance

November 2010—Four principles can help you make great financial decisions—even when the CFO’s not in the room.more

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Seven steps to better brainstorming
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Seven steps to better brainstorming

March 2011—Most attempts at brainstorming are doomed. To generate better ideas—and boost the odds that your organization will act on them—start by asking better questions.more

The perils of bad strategy
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The perils of bad strategy

June 2011—Bad strategy abounds, says UCLA management professor Richard Rumelt. Senior executives who can spot it stand a much better chance of creating good strategies.more

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