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RSS McKinseyBest Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations
White Paper In a 2008 McKinsey Quarterly article, "Business Strategies for Climate Change," the authors explain: ".the winners will be companies that reposition themselves to seize the opportunities of a low-carbon future. [16 Sep 2009]
Aligning Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results
White Paper According to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, "Companies can reduce application development and maintenance costs by up to 40%. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results in difficult economic times by uncovering... [16 Sep 2009]
Higher Customer Profits, Lower Risk: IBM Cognos Performance Perspectives Series
White Paper This from The McKinsey Quarterly: "Few banks have more than a rudimentary knowledge of what customers want from a branch and how they currently use it so bank executives should use data analysis and direct observation to... [16 Sep 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News In fact, datacentre energy usage is expected to quadruple during the next decade in the absence of efforts to improve efficiency, according to the article, which referenced a report from McKinsey & Company and the Uptime... [19 Aug 2009]
Who will hold the offshoring crown in 2020?
News Noshir Kaka is a director in the Mumbai office of analyst house McKinsey & Company. To view the full article Strengthening India's offshoring industry, just published on McKinsey Quarterly, click... [14 Aug 2009]
Chris Coupland
CIO Profile Coupland began his career as a project engineer with GEC before moving into management consulting with McKinsey and Booz Allen Hamilton. Chris Coupland joined BAE Systems in 2000 as director of e-business, and since 2003... [01 Jun 2009]
M&A's the Right Way
White Paper According to a McKinsey study, the combined value of mergers and acquisitions agreed in the first seven months of 2007 exceeded the previous year's record total - US$4 trillion. Every year tens of thousands of companies... [22 Apr 2009]
The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance
White Paper Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most have known intuitively for some time: all jobs have become more and more information-intensive--less linear and more interactive, less rule-based and more... [18 Mar 2009]
The New Competitive Advantage: Web Collaboration Reaches the Tipping Point
White Paper Industry observers, including respected consulting firm McKinsey & Company, argue that businesses will derive lasting competitive advantage by supporting knowledge workers' interactions-based business processes. [18 Mar 2009]
CIO career plan: How to get to the top
Comment Picking up contacts in the advisory world with the likes of McKinsey & Co and specialists such as Gartner is also important. Want to climb the IT ladder - and perhaps land the CIO spot? Andy McCue offers some advice on... [24 Sep 2008]
Paul Greenwood
CIO Profile He also worked at strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company, where he was responsible for research, information and knowledge management in the UK and had a team of 100 analysts, researchers and developers. [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile Between 1984 and 1997, he worked as a consultant at both outsourcing giant Accenture and management consulting firm McKinsey. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man Group, where he looks... [11 Jun 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment But McKinsey's Diogo Rau has an alternative approach. This column is based on the work of McKinsey's London location and its head of practice, Paul Willmott. Diogo Rau, an associate principal who focuses... [09 Apr 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment A year back, the focus was on engineering, and this year has seen the launch of a McKinsey study of the fast-growing business of remote infrastructure management (RIM). Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of... [18 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 taking off with businesses
News More than three-quarters of execs surveyed by consultants McKinsey said they intend to maintain or increase investment in collaborative web-based technologies. According to McKinsey, the retail sector is... [23 Mar 2007]
