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MGI examines the role IT plays in driving growth, and other knowledge, technology, and infrastructure-related trends reshaping the economy and society.
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The Internet of Things The Internet of Things
More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting new information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.
Read article and listen to the podcast on the McKinsey Quarterly site 		Eight business technology trends to watch Eight business technology trends to watch
Eight emerging trends are transforming many markets and businesses. Executives should learn to shape the outcome rather than just react to it.Includes Audio.
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Competitive advantage from better interactions
Tacit interactions are becoming central to economic activity. Making those who undertake them more effective isn't like tweaking a production line.
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Perspective—Whatever happened to the new economy?
Reports of the New Economy's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Evidence from both the U.S. and Europe indicates that IT was and is important to productivity growth, but that its primary role is as an enabler of innovation and competition.
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Perspective—How IT enables productivity growth
IT was during the '90s boom most effective when tailored to sector-specific business processes, deployed sequentially to build capabilities over time, and coevolved incrementally with managerial and technical innovations.
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Getting IT spending right this time
Smart IT investing doesn't require a return to the spendthrift ways of the late 1990s.
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The carbon productivity challenge
Any successful program of action on climate change must support two objectives—stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases and maintaining economic growth.
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