A focused approach to digitization can help airlines create value faster than overambitious transformations do. Source: McKinsey Walk before you fly—capturing the digital opportunity in airlines
In the third installment of this series, business leaders discuss important recent trends in the banking sector. Source: McKinsey The Philippines growth dialogues: Kristine Romano, Nestor A. Espenilla Jr., and Nestor Tan
To speed innovation and fend off disruption, R&D organizations at incumbent companies can borrow the tools and techniques that digital natives use to get ahead. Source: McKinsey Accelerating product development: The tools you need now
IT executives seldom associate agile with infrastructure. In this interview, the head of ING Netherlands’ IT infrastructure function explains how his team carried out an agile transformation. Source: McKinsey Bringing agile to IT infrastructure: ING Netherlands’ agile transformation
Author and journalist Emily Chang says gender discrimination in Silicon Valley could lead to bias being baked into the tech algorithms of the future. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How Sexism in Tech Impacts the World Outside Silicon Valley
The World Cup has seen a major shakeup in sponsorship in recent years, with Chinese firms emerging as key spenders despite the nation having played in the tournament just once — 16 years ago. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How World Cup Sponsorship Mirrors Global Economic Shifts
Companies that integrate brand and culture are more successful than those that keep the two separate, notes a new book by Denise Lee Yohn. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Is Your Culture Your Brand?
Bhaskar Chakravorti, the dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, analyzes the economic impact of India’s unprecedented demonetization move in 2016. With no advance warning, India pulled the two largest banknotes from circulation, notes that accounted for 86% of cash transactions in a country where most payments happen in cash. Chakravorti Read more about 635: When India Killed Off Cash Overnight[…]
Your new ecommerce site has finally launched. Congratulations! Now you have the ability to sell to a huge potential audience. Whether you have a completely new business or an existing brand that just launched an ecommerce site, getting your first few sales can be intimidating. Existing businesses that expanded to the Internet, using it as an Read more about How to Get Your First Sale for Your New Ecommerce Website[…]
For urban planners, data and technology are valuable tools to improve administration and services, but as digital systems become more pervasive, there is a danger that inequality will deepen unless local governments recognize that tech-driven solutions are as important to the poor as they are to the affluent, write Homi Kharas and Jaana Remes in Read more about As cities go smart, vulnerable populations are pushed further to the margins[…]