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Inside the Strategy Room

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We talk with McKinsey partners and corporate executives on the challenges they face creating lasting strategies in a fast-changing world. We also examine the different ways these executives approach these challenges and the new and innovative ways they think of creating a vision for their enterprises.

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11. Bias busters: How to be objective about budgets 13.02.2019 18:40

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 18:38) >   Anchoring bias can hold back the budgeting process and influence your targets despite your best efforts. Address it and refocus difficult conversations. In this episode McKinsey partner Tim Koller, professor of business strategy at the University of Sydney Dan Lovallo, and Sean Brown, discuss how to tackle anchoring...

10. Bias busters: How to make better decisions with the ‘outside view’ 05.02.2019 22:07

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 22:05) >   Despite their best intentions, executives fall prey to cognitive and organizational biases that get in the way of good decision making. In our new Bias Busters series, McKinsey partner Tim Koller and Dan Lovallo, an alumnus of McKinsey’s San Francisco office and professor of business strategy at the University of Syd...

9. Why long-term value is a winning bet 19.12.2018 11:57

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 11:56) >   Companies that focus on the long-term outperform their shorter-term peers on a range of economic and financial metrics including revenue and earnings, market capitalization, and job creation. In this episode, Sean Brown is joined by Bruce Simpson, a senior partner in our Toronto office who recently co-authored a chap...

8. Digital transformation: The CFO's role 12.12.2018 25:38

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 25:35) >   Michael Bender is the global co-leader of McKinsey Digital and Analytics. He spoke with Sean Brown in London about the role CFOs can play in driving digital transformations, the nature of digital transformations more generally, how digital and analytics go hand in hand, and the challenges companies can face when work...

7. Make working capital work harder for you 28.11.2018 10:43

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 10:41) >   Working capital is often an under-appreciated source of cash and value creation. Associate partner Matt Stone speaks with Sean Brown in London about how leading companies are unlocking value by implementing effective working capital strategies and world-class advanced analytics and machine learning solutions. Support...

6. How leading CEOs manage their middle tenure 11.10.2018 33:15

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 28:59) >   There is a wealth of research into how new CEOs should successfully transition into the leading role. Less frequently studied is how top CEOs outperform competitors during the second act of their tenures. Sean Brown talks with senior partner Rodney Zemmel and associate partner Matt Cuddihy about the five themes that...

5. How to take the measure of innovation 24.09.2018 24:27

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 24:25) >   Two simple R & D conversion metrics can help executives measure the value of innovation efforts. Senior partner Erik Roth, and associate partners Guttorm Aase and Sri Swaminathan speak with Sean Brown about how companies can gain valuable insights into innovation performance from a pair of metrics that have been hidi...

4. Demystifying AI and machine learning for executives 04.09.2018 31:53

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 31:51) >   Senior partner Tamim Saleh cuts through the hype around AI in this interview and offers clear guidance for executives looking to make precise strategic decisions about where and how to employ AI in their business. Tamim shares insights on the impact of machine vision on AI, the future of voice recognition, and the la...

3. Building gender diversity on boards 27.08.2018 13:55

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 13:54) >   Celia Huber, Senior Partner in our Silicon Valley office, on how companies can build and benefit from gender diversity on boards. Support the show: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinsey-strategy-&-corporate-finance/ See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

2. How to avoid digital strategy pitfalls 20.08.2018 23:17

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 23:14) >   Most digital strategies don’t reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Support the show: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinsey-strategy-&-corporate-finance/ See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

1. Inside the strategy room: One CEO’s approach 03.08.2018 13:26

Read more >    Listen to the podcast (duration: 14:00) >   Deanna Mulligan, president and CEO of Guardian Life Insurance, reflects on how she approaches strategy planning in an industry with strong headwinds. Support the show: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinsey-strategy-&-corporate-finance/ See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information