Sectors Without Borders

Industry boundaries are shifting as digitization creates new alliances, ecosystems and competition across sector lines.
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Competing in a world of sectors without borders

– Digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries. What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s ecosystems?

Strategy in the digital age

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Management’s next frontier: Making the most of the ecosystem economy
– Engaging in digital ecosystems requires a new set of managerial skills and capabilities. How quickly companies develop them will... determine if they succeed in the ecosystem economy.
Podcast - McKinsey Quarterly

As sector borders dissolve, new business ecosystems emerge
– Over the next decade, learning to operate in a business world with disappearing borders will become a necessity for companies... that want to be competitive.
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How tech giants deliver outsized returns—and what it means for the rest of us
– Networks and platforms reign within high tech, media, and telecom. Understanding the sector’s dynamics is increasingly important... for executives in all industries.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Culture for a digital age
– Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets have long bedeviled organizations. In a digital world, solving these... cultural problems is no longer optional.

Business technology

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What it really takes to capture the value of APIs
– APIs are the connective tissue in today’s ecosystems. For companies who know how to implement them, they can cut costs,... improve efficiency, and help the bottom line.
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Adopting an ecosystem view of business technology
– To fully benefit from new business technology, CIOs need to adapt their traditional IT functions to the opportunities and challenges... of emerging technology “ecosystems.” Here’s how it’s done.

Financial services

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Insurtech—the threat that inspires
– Incumbents need to keep their eyes out for new entrants that use technology to create a strategic advantage. The size of their... share in the next generation of the insurance industry is at stake.
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Bracing for seven critical changes as fintech matures
– The fintech sector is being shaped by shifting market conditions, new regulations, and changes in consumer demands and behaviors.

Mobility

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The automotive revolution is speeding up
– How fast is disruption reshaping the personal-mobility landscape, and what will new value pools look like as the ecosystem evolves?
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How mobility players can compete as the automotive revolution accelerates
– What is required to navigate the emerging personal-mobility landscape in an uncertain future?

Healthcare

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Using data and technology to improve healthcare ecosystems
– A Verily Life Sciences executive explains how the company targets better patient outcomes by harnessing analytics, machine learning,... and other digital tools.
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How health apps are promising to reshape healthcare
– Two executives from a digital diabetes-management start-up discuss the importance of a patient focus and ways innovation is shaping... the industry.
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How tech-enabled consumers are reordering the healthcare landscape
– Healthcare companies are developing new digital technologies to give consumers more control over the care they receive. That could... upend the industry’s move toward greater consolidation and scale.