Raise your Digital Quotient®
This series explores how companies can create the strategies, culture, organization, and capabilities that put digital at the core of the enterprise.
Raise your digital quotient
Digital Disruption
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The new consumer decision journey
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For years, empowered consumers have held the upper hand when it comes to making purchasing decisions. But companies are fighting back.
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Taking the measure of the networked enterprise
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New research shows that power users reap the greatest benefits from social technologies.
Interview
GE’s Jeff Immelt on evolving a corporate giant
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In the final installment of our two-part interview, General Electric chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt explains what’s driving...
Interview
GE’s Jeff Immelt on digitizing in the industrial space
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In this first installment of our two-part interview, General Electric chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt explains why industrial companies...
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Organizing for digital acceleration: Making a two-speed IT operating model work
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By adopting a digital product management model, companies can get the most from their IT architectures and deliver innovative...
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Discussions on digital: The new war for talent
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In a wide-ranging discussion, several Silicon Valley leaders discuss how data is transforming talent management, what millennials...
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Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right
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Becoming a digital organization requires fundamentally changing how you do business. Answering these nine questions can help...
Interview
Good design is good business
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers design partner John Maeda talks to McKinsey’s Hugo Sarrazin about why today’s...
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Building a design-driven culture
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It’s not enough to just sell a product or service—companies must truly engage with their customers. Here’s...
Interview
Making design a business priority
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Being “design driven” means operating in a fundamentally different way. In this video, McKinsey’s Mahin Samadani...
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The digital tipping point
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Organizations’ efforts to go digital—and drive growth through digitization—are picking up steam. But many have...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
How should you tap into Silicon Valley?
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Not by sticking a toe in the water. Get your management team aligned and then commit.
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Beyond agile: Reorganizing IT for faster software delivery
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The integration of software development with IT operations can rev up companies’ delivery of new applications. But this...
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‘Transformer in chief’: The new chief digital officer
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The CDO role is changing dramatically. Here are the skills today’s world demands.
Interview
The secrets to going digital
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How do leading companies transition to digital, and what role can the chief digital officer play? In this interview, McKinsey’s...
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Six building blocks for creating a high-performing digital enterprise
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Digitization affects almost everything in today's organizations, which makes capturing its benefits uniquely complex. Here are...
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Overcoming obstacles to digital customer care
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Providing superior digital customer care, or e-care, can lower costs and increase customer satisfaction. Yet it’s easier...
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The road to digital success in pharma
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Pharmaceutical companies can play a central role in the digital revolution of healthcare. But capturing this opportunity requires...
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Two ways to modernize IT systems for the digital era
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Companies can use two-speed or greenfield approaches to overhaul their legacy IT systems—without weakening their enterprises....
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
An executive's guide to the Internet of Things
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The rate of adoption is accelerating. Here are six things you need to know.
Video - MGI Research
The Internet of Things: Five critical questions
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How do industry experts view the development of the Internet of Things, and what would they change?
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Cracking the digital-shopper genome
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Companies have more data at their fingertips than ever, so why do online shoppers remain such a mystery? The solution begins...
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Digital manufacturing: The revolution will be virtualized
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Few manufacturers are responding to opportunities and threats presented by the digital revolution in a comprehensive, coordinated...
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Changing change management
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Research tells us that most change efforts fail. Yet change methodologies are stuck in a predigital era. It’s high time...
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Putting digital process innovation at the center of organizational change
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When a merger is announced, the IT organization has a unique opportunity to help the company reimagine its technology landscape...
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What ‘digital’ really means
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Everyone wants to go digital. The first step is truly understanding what that means.
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How digital marketing operations can transform business
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Struggling to keep up with rapidly evolving consumer behavior? Digital marketing operations can bridge the divide between what...
Book Excerpt - McKinsey Quarterly
Repelling the cyberattackers
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Organizations must build digital resilience to protect their most valuable information assets.
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Want to become agile? Learn from your IT team
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IT teams have spent decades adjusting to the rapid evolution of hardware and software. Here’s how to benefit from that...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Raising your Digital Quotient
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Following the leader is a dangerous game. It’s better to focus on building an organization and culture that can realize...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
An executive’s guide to machine learning
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It’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon, Google, and...
Interview
Learning from Google’s digital culture
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What can traditional organizations learn from digital natives? In this interview, Google’s VP of US sales and operations...
Interview
What it takes to build your Digital Quotient
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When it comes to transitioning to digital, what differentiates success from struggle? In this interview, the leader of McKinsey’s...
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Finding the speed to innovate
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Companies can test and launch digital products and services faster, and at lower cost, by integrating their product development...
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Strategic principles for competing in the digital age
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Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Here are six...
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The seven traits of effective digital enterprises
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To stay competitive, companies must stop experimenting with digital and commit to transforming themselves into full digital businesses....
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Digital strategy
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Digitization is fundamentally altering the nature of competition. McKinsey’s Paul Willmott explains how digital winners...