46 The McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Number 1 David Williams E xtreme competition Extreme competition The forces of globalization‚ technology‚ and economic liberalization are combining to make life harder than ever for established companies. William I. Huyett and S. Patrick Viguerie Jack Welch once said that the 1980s would be a “white-knuckle” decade of intensifying industrial competition—and that the 1990s would be tougher still. Despite history’s greatest bull market‚ rising
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Client goal Our client is RefreshNow! Soda. RefreshNow! is a top 3 beverage producer in the U.S. and has approached McKinsey for help in designing a product launch strategy. Description of RefreshNow! Soda As an integrated beverage company‚ RefreshNow! leads its own brand design‚ marketing and sales efforts. In addition‚ the company owns the entire beverage supply chain‚ including production of concentrates‚ bottling and packaging‚ and distribution to retail outlets. RefreshNow! has a considerable
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OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS Ph.D. Student B loi Ionu -Cosmin University of Craiova Faculty of Economics and Business Administration‚ Romania Abstract: The content and the organization of work represent dimensions which do not only involve mobilizing competencies but are also dimensions in which competencies are developed. In an organization people create‚ accumulate or transfer knowledge‚ ideas‚ values‚ attitudes‚ feelings or experiences. The goal of a learning organization
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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McKinsey & Company McKinsey Problem Solving Test Practice Test © 2010 APTMetrics‚ Inc. Practice Test McKinsey Problem Solving Test – Practice Test Practice Test Overview and Instructions This practice test has been developed to provide a sample of the actual McKinsey Problem Solving Test used for selection purposes. This test assesses your ability to solve business problems using deductive‚ inductive‚ and quantitative reasoning. This practice test contains a total of 26 questions
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Managing and Responding to Behaviours in a Learning Environment Task 1 – The Context of Behaviour Issues i. Describe and discuss the aspects of national legislation which have relevance to behaviour in the learning environment. (300 words) There are a number of legislative acts that impact on the learning environment and cater for both learners and staff in any institution. The following Acts: Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001); Race Relations Act (1976) and Race Relations
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words • Active learning - learning through action and reaction • Defending your position – the power of debate • Going deeper into the subject – creativity‚ originality and critical judgement • Professional skills – learning how to work productively with others • Learning how to learn – personal growth To summarise: To create current good practice for Managing Learning and Development in Groups ‚ the first we need to understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development
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Managing Assets and Liabilities: Strategies for Insurance Companies October 2008 Financial Services Commission of Jamaica Insurance Seminar - October 30‚ 2008 Michael Hafeman‚ FSA‚ FCIA‚ MAAA Context for Asset-Liability Management Risks and Risk Tolerance Risk Measurement ALM Techniques Organizational Issues Supervisory Objectives Managing Assets and Liabilities: Strategies for Insurance Companies 2 What is it and why is it used? Managing Assets and Liabilities: Strategies
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Feature article Knowledge management‚ librarians and information managers: fad or future? Brendan Loughridge Introduction This article considers some of the principles and practices commonly associated with ``knowledge management ’ ’ (KM) in so far as they seem to be of potential importance or relevance to library and information professionals. Competing claims and counterclaims about KM as expressed in a selection of recent professional and academic publications are reviewed‚ though a truly
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Japan’s largest soap and cosmetic company. They have developed from being a minor player to being number two in the Japanese market in less than ten years and are the sixth largest soap and cosmetic company in the world. Innovation Claim to Fame Kao was founded in 1890 as the Kao Soap Company with the motto‚ ‘Cleanliness is the foundation of a prosperous society’. In the 1940s Kao launched the first Japanese laundry detergent‚ and in the 1950s the company launched dishwashing and household
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