PD2 Assignment (Mckinsey & Co.)
PD2 Assignment (Mckinsey & Co.)
PD2 Assignment (Mckinsey & Co.)
0136dodo0213 (Group Leader) Kwaku Konadu..... 0130mwmw0213 SolievMavlonbek. 0086mwmw0612 Rahmatjon Matkarimov 0131mwmw0213 Md Minhaj Uddin. 0124nene1013 Farrukh Rizakulov 0179mwmw1012 Course: BABS, semester: 3 Lecturer: Dr. Francis Asirvatham Submission Date: 16-12-2013
Contents
1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Company Profile ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Board of Directors ................................................................................................................................... 4 Dr James Manyika ............................................................................................................................. 4 He is a director of Mckinsey global Institute; he has worked with many companies. James was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was appointed in 2011 by the US secretary of commerce to serve on a 15 member national Innovation Advisory Board. ............................................................................. 4 1.3 Mission and Vision .................................................................................................................................. 4 1.4 Social Responsibility ................................................................................................................................ 5 1.5 Nature of Business .................................................................................................................................. 5 2.0 Teamwork............................................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Mckinsey and Team working .................................................................................................................. 6 2.2 Mckinsey team parts ............................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1 Requirement to dissention .............................................................................................................. 7 2.2.2 Emphasis on receiving results .......................................................................................................... 8 3.0 Specific Business ..................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1 Consulting and Work focus ..................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Believing in Professionalism and meaning.............................................................................................. 8 4.0 Critical analysis of McKinsey Company ................................................................................................... 9 4.1 Benefits of McKinsey Company ............................................................................................................ 10 4.2 Drawbacks of the company................................................................................................................... 10 5.0 McKinsey Implementation .................................................................................................................... 11 5.1 Various backgrounds, deep implementation expertise .................................................................... 11 5.2 Teams flexible in size and approach ................................................................................................. 12 6.0 Challenges ............................................................................................................................................. 12 7.0 Recommendations and Conclusion....................................................................................................... 13 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 14
1.0 Introduction
Team-working can be defined as the process of working collaboratively with a group of person with the aim of achieving a well-defined goal. The work required to be done is to give the impact or the relationship of team-working in McKinsey & Companys in performance. At first, we are going to present the company that is McKinsey & Company, after we are going to analyze the company by explaining detailing how does team-working affects the companys performance, after we should make a recommendation on the aspects the firm needs to emphasize and to improve and at the end, we should conclude the work, with of course giving all the sources where the information were obtained.
Mc Kinsey & Company is one of the top world best consulting management firms; it is dedicated to help its clients to address their strategic challenges. It is operating in more than 50 countries with roughly 100 offices. The firm offers its services to private institutions as well as government agencies in their practices. It was founded in 1926 by James Mckinsey.
Dominic Barton
Managing Director He is the managing director of Mckinsey & Company. He joined the entity since 1986 and since then he has advised all the various clients of the firm. He was awarded in 2009 by the Magniola Gold prize in shangai government for its contributions to the community well-being.
The mission of the organization is to assist our clients for the improvement in their performance and to create a firm that provides value to our stakeholders by attracting, developing, exciting, and retaining them more than any one.
Vision Our vision is to be the number one consulting firm by giving a tireless support to our clients.
2.0 Teamwork
The concept that defines people effort together like a team with intend of achieving similar aims or points called Teamwork. Functioning as a team incorporates working supportively and exploiting individual powers within a group to reach the common objectives and targets. Four basic elements are contained by the good teamwork; they are goals, roles, process and relationship. When those basics are followed, target will have been accomplished properly and timely.
The engagement director works with the client chief executive to improve clear directive for the assignment, also works with engagement manager and business leader of client to improve work strategy, clarifications. provide required
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assignment, working with a full-time client team leader, a senior executive of the business and to improve a strategy and plan of action.
The associate: this is the leading role among the team work in determining issues, forming hypotheses, planning and guiding analyses, organizing assignment plan, creating presentations and helping to implement change. (Mckinsey, 2013)
Telling the truth as its seen Delivering the best of the firm for every client Mckinsey believes in teamwork and collaboration. They would prefer to answer in teams than answer individual. That means consultants do not compete against each other. As a replacement for, they share a structured problem solving method, where all ideas, opinions and options measured, explored and analyzed wisely before making the recommendations. (Mckinsey & Company, 2013)
Lack of customer focus: management consulting is at its core B2B. it may touch consumer indirectly because when the consulting for large consumer packaged goods company but their primary focus is delivering value to other companies. Lack of deep understanding: in this case , the top teams are making decision their agrees on plans but there are some actions are disagree with its decisions because that is issues reflect the tendency of top teams to focus on making decision without examining the assumption the criteria and the rationales behind them (Mckinsey and company, 1996-2013)
thirty five years of practical knowledge in implementation consulting or in line management. All those people came from different types of industries and have knowledge, skill in conducting large-scale performance development plans.
6.0 Challenges
Controlling International Companies has always been a commercial problem for centuries. However the essence of the task is changing with the accelerating shift of economic activity from Europe and North America (Pergler, 2013 August) After careful investigation the company suggests that four hundred mid size developing-market cities majority unknown in the West, will bring approximately forty percent of overall growth for the following fifteen years. (Dmitri Krivin, 2013 May) As an Example a very famous European Bank had a problem with combining two different credit
platforms.
contributing to high operating expenses at both banks. The banks leaders reached out to McKinsey for support. The McKinsey team started by examining all aspects of the credit value chain. It evaluated the credit organizational structures and incentive systems to determine whether they were in alignment with the banks overall credit-quality objectives. Using this fact base as a foundation, the McKinsey team then helped the client with a comprehensive redesign of the credit business. By unifying and optimizing its credit operations, the bank achieved a significant reduction in its cost of risk, which in prior years was on average 50 basis points higher than rival European
banks. In the three years following the project, the banks cost of risk dropped to 23 basis points below that of its peers. In addition, the application of lean techniques resulted in more efficient credit processes, yielding a 15 to 20 percent reduction in operating expenses in each customer segment. Strategic confidence and stretch To be a global brings some strategic advantages like the opportunity to reach different consumer markets, new providers, and various partners. At the same time being global may bring some strategic problems. A lot of organizations consider it increasingly challenging to be locally flexible and adjustable as they widen their worldwide reputation. (Rob McNish, March 2013 )
In order to be more effective and efficient McKinsey must implement 3 major factors of team working. This are explained below in brief:
Supportive Environment Teamwork will be more effective if the management of
McKinsey develops a supportive environment for it. This can be done by encouraging their members to think like a team, providing sufficient time for meetings, and must have the environment to exhibit their capacity to work. This type of supportive measures will help the team members of McKinsey to achieve the initial step towards the effective teamwork. Since these steps requires further cooperation, trust and compatibility, managers of McKinsey must ensure to build a new organizational culture that support this conditions.
Skills and Role Clarity Team members of the McKinsey must have the adequate
capacity to perform the assigned task and have the attitude to cooperate. Apart from these requirements, members should work together as a team only if all the other members in that working group must know the roles of their teammates with whom they will be
interacting. This will help the team members to understand their goals and to accomplish their assigned task as quickly as possible.
Team Rewards Another powerful element that McKinsey might introduce to boost up
their team work is the presence of team rewards. This can be in the form of financial or non financial i.e. recognition or it can be the combination of both. Rewards are most powerful motivational technique if they are properly appreciated by the team members. In addition, McKinsey should carefully balance in encouraging and rewarding individual initiative and at the same time looking after the total contribution of the team success. In McKinsey the non-financial rewards can be given in the form of selecting new members of the group or suggesting a new team leader or proposing discipline for team members. So we may conclude that Mckinsey & Company is working throughout the globe with just one aim that is to provide help to the companies which are in need. Mckinseys great team work strategies are very well planned and this makes Mckinsey & Company worlds top most consultant company. Mckinsey solutions is changing the way businesses make decisions and achieve long term performance improvement. The companys solutions comprise Mckinsey expertise with strong, accessible technology to join disparate sources of data and provide a single, clear view on complex problems. (SORKIN, 2013) The client companies seek an environment where diverse, remarkable people work closely together to solve problems and create future. Mckinsey and Company is expanding faster and bringing in more organization to work with, actually most of the times, companies choose us to work with not Mckinsey.
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