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Enabling The Global-Local Enterprise
In Winning the $30 Trillion Decathlon, a McKinsey team sets out why emerging markets hold the key to the future for most large multinational firms – and proposes ten essential disciplines for success....
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Avoiding IT Failure (And Bankruptcy)
News from a colleague yesterday of another SAP project using Nimbus: unforeseen delays, a shredded budget and a bewildered client. Another huge success in fact. This European manufacturer was told by a...
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IT Project Failure: How Did We End Up Here?
McKinsey’s report last week, drawn from an analysis of 5,400 IT projects, deserves reflection. It makes sober reading: “Our research, conducted in collaboration with the University of Oxford, suggests...
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Cloud Without Risk: Pie In The Sky
We know that systems failures are surprisingly common, hugely wasteful and can bring a company to its knees. Best example last year must be Knight Capital, a market-maker responsible for 10% of US...
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Social Business: Finding Meaning At Work
There’s a report published last week by McKinsey that deserves to be widely noticed. It challenges some common preconceptions about how we see work – and highlights our deepest motivations in our...
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When Process Standardisation Backfires
Current orthodoxy is that process standardization is a Good Thing. People are committing enormous resources to programmes to deliver global processes supported by a common toolset. It’s driving...
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Why Are So Many IT Projects Successful?
It’s bizarre how many major IT projects are ‘successful’. Imagine buying dinner for your loved ones at a restaurant where the service was always slow, the bill was usually way beyond the prices shown...
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Big Data, Advanced Analytics and Black Swans
Can advanced analytics be as much a threat as an opportunity? It seems quite plausible: it’s complicated. The near wipe-out of a leading Wall Street brokerage in just two hours demonstrated how...
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Goobledegook And The Bottom Line
There’s a parable for our times over on the FT. It’s a story about the real-life rebellion of a senior director who refused to approve a new IT system because he had “not understood a word” of the...
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Scaling Up Excellence, The Toyota Way
So – if Scaling Up Excellence is a manual about how to create a ‘relentless restlessness’ that drives customer-centric innovation, where does that leave The Toyota Way? Do Sutton and Rao’s...
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