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- Time to rethink offshoring?
- Changing economic conditions may have undermined some of the benefits of offshoring. For managers of global supply chains, this could be the time to reevaluate. The production of high-tech goods has moved steadily from the United States to Asia over the last decade. The reasons...
- Articles 2008-10-23
- Rethinking High-Tech Distribution
- Distributors may hold the key to high-tech sales growth in many markets. Companies that make computing, telecom, and networking equipment have in recent years improved their ability to sell directly to customers or to resellers, either online or through their own sales forces. Accordingly, they...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- The Downturn's New Rules for Marketers
- The old recession playbook won't work this time around. Around the world, marketing and sales executives are being asked to do more with less. It's a demand many have heard in previous hard times, and most managers muddled through then. But the nature of the...
- Articles 2009-01-12
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- I want it now: manufacturing management. (stock control systems)
- Management consulting firm McKinsey warns that just in time inventory control systems cause suppliers financial difficulties and can disrupt manufacturing schedules. Suppliers have little recourse, however, since the systems save money for the ordering firms. Just-In-Time JIT stock-control systems, pioneered by the Japanese, have swept through dozens of...
- Research articles 1992-06-13
- Sites for your eyes.(World Wide Web sites for manufacturing executives)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 BECAUSE IT'S NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO KEEP TABS ON THE CONSTANT stream of information providers on the World Wide Web, IW lists valuable resources manufacturing executives might find worthwhile. * Consultants' Corner--McKinsey & Co., a consulting firm, offers information on...
- Research articles 1996-11-04
- Ex-McKinsey Exec - Rajaratnam Paid $1.75 Mln For Tips
- By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - A former director of McKinsey & Co told a court on Thursday that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam paid him $1.75 million (1.09 million pounds) in exchange for tips on clients of the consulting firm, giving prosecutors potentially more ammunition in...
- News items 2010-01-08
- Easing Off.(United States productivity)(Brief Article)
- Put it down to the law of diminishing returns. The boom in U.S. productivity during the late 1990s is over, according to a new report by consultants McKinsey & Co. Nearly all the growth came in just six U.S. economic sectors--retail, wholesale, securities, telecom, semiconductors and...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
- US productivity gains.(labor productivity gains in retail, wholesale, securities, telecom, semiconductors and computer manufacturing)(Brief Article)
- Much of US labor productivity growth was real and will continue, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Company. The consultancy estimates that half of the productivity acceleration from 1995 to 1999 can be sustained over the next five years. Six sectors--retail, wholesale, securities, telecom,...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Less is more; manufacturing. (survey shows best performing firms tend towards simplicity; smaller product line)
- SUCCESSFUL firms are easy to spot but hard to explain. Management gurus have done their best, picking over the bones of "world-class" firms in the hope of coming up with the Magic Formula. The result: a fad for every season. McKinsey, a consultancy, has taken a...
- Research articles 1991-05-25
- Recruiting Star Performers In the War for Talent
- The case study explains that recruiting star performers is more a state of mind than it is the use of any special trick or technique on the Web. The key is to tailor everything you do -- job postings and site content -- to the unique perspective and motivations of...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Future exports from the world's two biggest developing countries will be radically different.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(McKinsey Global Institute)(Brief Article)
- Future exports from the world's two biggest developing countries will be radically different. China and India are taking different paths to economic prosperity, says Diana Farrell, director of the ... Future exports from the world's two biggest developing countries will be radically different....
- Research articles 2004-10-07
- Key Metrics and Supply Alert (Purchasing)
- ...Future exports from the world's two biggest developing countries will be radically different. China and India are taking different paths to economic prosperity, says Diana Farrell, director of the McKinsey Global Institute. China's growth has...
- Research articles 2004-10-07
- Increasing Global Competition and Labor Productivity: Lessons From the US Automotive Industry
- Studies of productivity by McKinsey Global Institute MGI and others have shown that when new, more productive players enter a sector previously sheltered from global competition, the sector's overall level of productivity rises. Less clear, however, is what happens at a company level to link cause and effect. Taking U.S....
- White papers 2005-11-01
- India has lagged behind other developing nations.(tip sheet: KEY METRICS AND SUPPLY ALERT)(Brief Article)
- India has lagged behind other developing nations as a manufacturing center, mainly because of infrastructure problems and government regulation. However, McKinsey & Co. says companies that make the effort now to source and manufacture products in India may obtain first-mover advantages such as close relations with...
- Research articles 2005-09-15
- From Lean to Lasting: Making Operational Improvements Stick
- By focusing on the "soft" side of lean and Six Sigma initiatives, leading global companies gain substantial, scalable, and sustainable advantages. For companies seeking large-scale operational improvements, all roads lead to Toyota. Each year, thousands of executives tour its facilities to learn how lean production—the...
- Articles 2009-02-27
- Experienced Management Consultant Joins Vestar Capital Partners; Jeffrey W. Long Named a Managing Director in Vestar Resources
- NEW YORK -- Vestar Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm with offices in New York, Denver, Boston, Paris and Milan, announced that Jeffrey W. Long, formerly of McKinsey & Company, will join the firm as a managing director in the Vestar Resources group. He will be based in Denver...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Green Energy Opportunities Start with Smart Climate Policy
- I have seen promising signs here in America. Green jobs, for instance, are growing 2.5 times as fast as traditional jobs. But there is another indicator as well: the enormous sense of possibility that is spreading across the country. Everywhere I go I meet people who want to design, invest...
- News items 2010-01-15
- Offshoring Is So Over
- Airport baggage carousels can provide telling glimpses of what's happening in the economy. In 2004 I was waiting for my bags with a guy who was coming back from South Korea. His company was moving its factory -- including all the specialized equipment in it -- from Massachusetts to South...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Many Chinese firms lack global brands.
- Oct 15, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) A report on China's manufacturing sector is interesting. The report by McKinsey & Company said that manufacturers in China still lack the expertise to develop and market global brands. China is a ...
- Research articles 2003-10-15
- Charges swirl around insider trading on Intel, AMD deals
- Think of it as a twist on the old rivalry between chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. But this time, the rivalry is about which company can make a hedge fund more money.The complaint filed by the government against six people on Friday details how a relatively obscure Intel...
- News items 2009-10-20
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