May 2008
China faces major challenges to becoming a global giant in the offshoring and outsourcing of services.
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April 2008
Although they draw together widely dispersed information, prediction markets face organizational and legal challenges.
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January 2008
The company’s chairman and former CEO explains the power of the participatory, open-source model of collaboration.
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December 2007
Eight emerging trends are transforming many markets and businesses. Executives should learn to shape the outcome rather than just react to it.
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September 2007
The founder and chairman of Satyam details the philosophy that has underpinned the company’s rapid ascent through the ranks of the world’s top IT services providers.
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June 2007
A new delivery method is shaking the software industry’s foundations. Traditional vendors should take heed.
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February 2007
A veteran Silicon Valley CEO and mentor of CEOs talks about his years in high tech.
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May 2006
Business processes and traditionally outsourced—but not offshored—IT services will be the main drivers of offshoring growth in the near future.
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January 2006
The emergence of strong local high-tech companies is creating a formidable challenge for multinationals seeking to grab a share of the Chinese market.
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August 2005
Joseph M. Tucci describes how to make change stick. Fourth in a series of interviews with leading executives on change management.
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August 2005
Some partners are more important than others.
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February 2005
Microsoft is paying cash to shareholders, stressing transparency in its diverse businesses, and embracing Sarbanes-Oxley. Before announcing his departure in early 2005, CFO John Connors talked with The McKinsey Quarterly about why.
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October 2004
Financial officers in the high-tech sector should learn to balance six roles to help guide companies into a more mature market.
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February 2004
Economic pressures to restructure high-tech industries will eventually become irresistible. Executives should prepare themselves for more—and more hostile—acquisitions.
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November 2003
To drive productivity, high-tech executives should focus not just on technological innovation but also on business process innovation.
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June 2003
Many of Taiwan’s high-tech manufacturers have moved operations to China to gain an advantage; now they must streamline those operations to stay ahead of the competition.
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May 2003
Companies can run their IT systems more efficiently by creating new organizational structures in which IT departments and business units share responsibility.
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May 2003
After a hard fall, providers of IT services face demands for more value—at lower prices.
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May 2003
With high demand replaced by an overhang of capacity, the industry needs a catharsis.
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December 2002
IT will rise again—but only if the providers learn how to help their customers make money.
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November 2002
China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization will also benefit Taiwan’s high-tech companies, as well as their customers in the West.
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February 2002
M&A deals are more likely to destroy value than to create it. But when they are executed strategically and often, as part of the routine of running a business, the odds favor success.
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January 2002
What are Web services? Why should you care?
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November 2001
US investment in Israel has fallen sharply since the NASDAQ crash, but Asian and European companies and investors may fill the breach—to everyone’s benefit.
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July 2001
Economic development plans are a dime a dozen. A new approach makes it possible to create concentrations of high-tech businesses where they didn't exist previously.
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August 2000
A McKinsey survey of computer science and electrical engineering graduates, summarized in "The war for technical talent," found that falling numbers of middle-aged people, the movement of employees out of large corporations, and frequent job-hopping will force employers to offer top dollar to top performers.
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February 2000
Stock options and tricky financial instruments are dividing the interests of insiders from the performance of the Internet companies they dominate. In a market as volatile as the present one, suspicion of skyrocketing initial public offerings should be the order of the day.
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November 1996
A reprint from Sloan Management Review.
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August 1996
A new strategy for high-tech industrial markets—self-destruction. Getting out early is as important as getting in early. Wrong: taking samples to old customers. Right: drawing road maps with the right ones.
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May 1996
The wrong debate: the Internet versus on-line services. The distinctive value of networks is the ability to form communities. The basics of quality, cost, and convenience will still drive success.
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November 1995
We can put classrooms on the information superhighway now. Is it worth 4 percent of the school budgets?
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February 1994
Restoring the industry to competitive health means learning to avoid the “high-end trap.”
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February 1994
Throughout most of its history, the electronics industry has focused on product innovation, not productivity. Times have changed.
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August 1993
Innovation no longer ensures success in the maturing computer market; continuous productivity improvement is what it takes to win.
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