McKinsey & Company

McKinsey | July 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide, bankrupted businesses, and plunged the global economy into crisis. While lockdown measures and shelter-at-home orders are helping contain the coronavirus, they have also brought severe financial hardship. Amid a new reality of working from home, canceling trips, and even forgoing outings to restaurants and grocery stores, the micromobility industry—encompassing a range of lightweight vehicles such as bicycles, e-scooters, and...

McKinsey | July 16, 2020

Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency has in the past month handed out tenders worth nearly $2.5 million to large consultancy firms. US-origin Boston Consulting Group has been selected to support two projects. The first is focused on providing advisory and digital expertise to the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), aimed at improving the agency’s services. The six-week engagement has a contract value of $396,000. The second deal has a value of $3273,000, and focuses on “w...

McKinsey & Company | July 16, 2020

More than two dozen of the largest employers in the New York City area are committing to create 100,000 jobs over the next decade. The group of 27 employers — which is calling itself the New York Jobs CEO Council — includes massive companies like JPMorgan Chase, IBM, McKinsey & Co., Amazon.com Inc., Google and Goldman Sachs. The group's focus will be on connecting people in low-income and Black, Latinx and Asian communities to job opportunities. The employers' pledge to h...

HR Dive | January 13, 2020

Creativity was the most in-demand soft skill for applicants last year, and it has retained its place heading into 2020, according to a Jan. 9 LinkedIn Learning report. "Organizations need people who can creatively approach problems and tasks across all business roles, from software engineering to HR," the company said. Persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence rounded out the top five. LinkedIn noted that emotional intelligence — defined as the ability to...