An experienced combat commander and leading expert on training and doctrine assesses recent military history and its implications for the future. Major General Herbert Raymond (H. R.) McMaster is the commander of the US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort…
As the strategic landscape shifts, an economic-scenario approach can help defense organizations grapple with uncertainty. The art of strategy, in defense as elsewhere, involves understanding possible futures to inform present decisions. Change, volatility, and uncertainty are perennial challenges to the defense…
The growth of cities in emerging markets is driving the most significant economic transformation in history. The McKinsey Global Institute’s new iPad app, Urban World, offers a sense of how economic power will move as this urban expansion takes place. The…
Big data could transform the health-care sector, but the industry must undergo fundamental changes before stakeholders can capture its full value. A big-data revolution is under way in health care. Start with the vastly increased supply of information. Over the last…
Senior executives will better balance people and priorities by embracing the paradoxes of organizational life. I often ask business leaders three simple questions. What are your company’s ten most exciting value-creation opportunities? Who are your ten best people? How many of…
Many companies don’t have one. Here’s how to get started. The payoff from joining the big-data and advanced-analytics management revolution is no longer in doubt. The tally of successful case studies continues to build, reinforcing broader research suggesting that when…
About one-third of early buyers in Japan say their next car may not be an electric vehicle. Companies should heed their complaints. If electric vehicles (EVs) are to develop from a niche into a mass market, car makers should learn from early adopters…
Montreal’s M0851 leather goods stores uses its own cultivated identity to sell its ‘slow fashions’ Frédéric Mamarbachi, founder and creator of the brand M0851, is as excited as a kid in an ice cream store when he looks at three-dimensional renderings…
The CEO of a global staffing firm and a Nobel laureate economist discuss the changing face of US employment and the obstacles to job creation. The US economy has lost seven million jobs since 2007 and remains in the grip of…