Knowledge Strategy and McKinsey
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Knowledge Strategy & McKinsey
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Value Propositions and Accenture
Common KM Value Propositions
• Effectiveness/Responsiveness.
• Efficiency.
• Innovation.
Accenture
• KXchange – representative approach and mindset of many!
• Technology: D-Base, Discussion Forums, Collaborative Tools
and Expertise Locators.
• Massive investment in technology and organization infrastructure.
• Works well with repeatable work (when you can drive re-use) and
where information is really what needs to be transferred.
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Information Versus Knowledge in
Retail Banking
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Types of Knowledge
EXPLICIT
Documents
Databases
Reports
Manuals
Engineering
Methods
TACIT
Know
What
• Facts
• Ideas
• Theories
• Intuition
• Beliefs
• Values
Know
How
• Routines
• Procedures
• Instructions
• Expertise
• Instincts
• Informal
Practices
Dialogue
Conversation
Mentoring
Experience
Apprenticeships
Coaching
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1. Knowledge & Strategy.
2. KM at McKinsey.
3. Remembering 9/11.
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Cluster in groups of 2-3…
My left side of the room focus on codification. Be prepared to
discuss:
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Randall Love’s search
The overall strategy and economics
Primary investments in technology and infrastructure to support it.
Incentive schemes (and focus)
My right side of the room focus on personalization. Be prepared
to discuss:
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Marcia Blenko’s search
The overall strategy and economics
Primary investments in technology and infrastructure to support it.
Incentive schemes (and focus)
Where Would You Characterize Accenture? McKinsey?
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Choose between Two Strategies
Codification
• Link is person-to-document
• Extract, store and share through computers
• Reuse codified knowledge across similar tasks
Personalization
• Link is person-to-person
• Share and apply through people networks
• Channel expert advice to unique problems
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Codification: Access Health
Call-in medical center with 500 nurses
Nurses assess and direct patients
Use 500 pre-developed software algorithms
“We’re not inventing new ways to cure decease. We’re taking
available knowledge and inventing processes to put it to better
use.”
CEO Joe Tallman
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AH relies on “Reuse Economics”
4500
Costs:
1 algorithm=$40,000
variable costs=$20.
Avg. cost per diagnosis (dollar)
4000
3500
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2500
Usage:
For first 300
algorithms; reused
8,000 times on
average last year
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1500
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500
0
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200
300
400
500
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700
800
no. times reuse of software algorithm
Reuse of knowledge assets drives profits, not economies
of scale based on volume
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Personalization: Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
No. 1 rated cancer center in the U.S.
Most innovative and customized cancer treatment in
the country
Heavily based on personal communication between
doctors, scientists, etc.
Co-located in 17 disease teams; meetings
Investing heavily in re-use misses the point here
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Different strategies, different drivers
Codification
Fast, efficient delivery of
products
“reuse economics”
People: “implementers”
Personalization
unique solutions to unique
problems
“expert economics”
People: “inventors”
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Incentives and IT systems differ
IT for Codified:
heavy investments
“library” + search engines
IT for Personalized:
minor investments
“people-finders” + search for
people
Incentives for codified:
- to write up documents,
- to use documents
Incentives for personalized:
- to help others directly
- to ask for help
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1. Knowledge & Strategy.
2. KM at McKinsey.
3. Remembering 9/11.
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McKINSEY
3 minutes to come up with THE answer
• What strategically differentiates McKinsey? How does KM (repositories,
collaborative technologies and employee development) play into this?
• What were the key elements of the knowledge management project
launched in 1987?
• Be prepared to discuss the Jeff Peters vignette. Specifically, how did he
solve his problem?
• What challenges does McKinsey face as evidenced in the case and
vignettes?
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General Case Questions: McKINSEY
• What strategically differentiates McKinsey? How does KM in terms of
repositories, collaborative technologies and employee development play into
this?
• Solve tough, high-end and big-dollar problems that require a high degree of
expertise and creativity.
• People are inventors, not implementers.
• Most problems are unique and solutions customized.
• KM investments for them are heavily oriented to connecting people.
• Technically (expertise locators and even repositories)
• Organizationally (staffing and culture).
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General Case Questions: McKINSEY
• What were the key elements of the knowledge management project
launched in 1987?
• A common database of client work (e.g., sales presentations,
deliverables, analytic techniques, etc.).
• Client Sectors and Competence Centers hired a full time practice
coordinator to monitor quality and direct consultants to content.
• Established both I shaped and T shaped career paths.
• Knowledge Resource Directory (paper-based) of firm experts and
documents.
How important was it that the 2,000 documents that Matasonni and
Manville collected be high quality?
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Jeff Peters in Sydney
• Be prepared to discuss the Jeff Peters vignette. Specifically, how did he
solve his problem?
• Issue: Bid for growth strategy of respected financial services
organization. But local industry expertise “conflicted out.”
• Resolution: Immediately began using his personal network. Via this
found Jeff Peters in Boston (though unavailable for 6 weeks).
• His help: 1) John Peacocke (New Zealand – 2 years in McKinsey – mostly
oil and gas); 2) Patty Akopiantz (1 Year Associate with prior I-Bank
experience) and 3) Jonathon Liew (first McKinsey assignment).
• Forged group of experts from all over the world.
• Found 179 relevant PD documents and followed up with 60 more people.
• Won the project and client bought in.
• Jeff not happy though (no breakthrough too much reliance inside firm).
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Video Points of Importance
• For you aspiring consultants, note the opening comment about the pressure to come
up with a unique solution (with little experience).
• First stop is PD Net. They do re-use documents. But note that they also use these
documents to determine who to turn to for help.
• Key is finding the 3-4 teams somewhere around the globe that can coach you
through the process.
• Culture in McKinsey where you both add to the knowledge base and when you
respond when asked.
• In part a product of the “One Firm” culture and hiring.
• Performance evals. from day one also emphasize both knowledge contribution
(PD output) and help to others.
• Personal development and feedback built in at all stages.
• Learning during an engagement via feedback sessions.
• Development key to assignments during engagement.
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General Case Questions: McKINSEY
• What challenges does McKinsey face as evidenced
in the case and vignettes?
• Managing growth: Difficult to scale the way
Accenture does.
• Leveraging external expertise:
• Reaching outside the firm.
• Integrating experienced hires.
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A Web of “Effective” Information Flow…
Hierarchy
= Associate
= Manager
= Associate Principal
= Principal & Director
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A low proportion of people regularly
reach outside McKinsey for knowledge
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Under 1 year
Over 1 year
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Experienced
hires are the
main exception
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McKinsey
Boston
McKinsey
other
Client
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4
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Other
* Percentage of top 7 information contacts from each source type
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We are three times less likely to go outside
our pod for regular information
Information 9
sharing*
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vs.
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2
1
0
Within
same pod
Neighboring 2 pods
pod
away
More than
2 pods away
(or different
floor)
Distance
* Weekly information sharing out of a possible 100% of interactions
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1. Knowledge & Strategy.
2. KM at McKinsey.
3. Remembering 9/11.
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What does this have
to do with knowledge
management??
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Give Me Five Minutes of Thought
How can KM be applied to national security?
• Within Agencies?
• Between Agencies?
• Targeting Initiatives.
• Educating.
• Us
• Them
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KM and National Security
Within Agencies Bureaucracy Can Stifle “Knowing What We Know.”
• CIA developing an ability to surge.
• NSA is creating new leadership networks and data mining algorithms.
Turf Wars Between Agencies (CIA and FBI) Preclude Action.
• Homeland Security Office (22 agencies, 200,000 employees and $37.5B)
• Bio-Terrorism Response Capability.
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9/11: A Data (Dis)Integration Case Study
January 2000: Mohamed Atta obtains U.S. visa
Who knew? State Department
June 2000: Atta meets with Iraqi
intelligence in Prague
Who knew? Central Intelligence Agency
June 2000: Atta enters the U.S.
Who knew? Immigration and
Naturalization Service
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9/11: Case Study, Continued
July 2000: $100K wired to Mawan al-Shehhi,
pilot of one of two planes that struck WTC
Who knew? Treasury Department
December 2000: Atta and al-Shehhi leave
stalled airplane on Miami runway
Who knew? Federal Aviation Administration
July 2001: Agent warns of potential
terrorists in training at U.S. flight
schools
Who knew? Federal Bureau of
Investigation
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KM and National Security
Within Agencies Bureaucracy Can Stifle “Knowing What We Know.”
• CIA developing an ability to surge.
• NSA is creating new leadership networks and data mining algorithms.
Turf Wars Between Agencies (CIA and FBI) Preclude Action.
• Homeland Security Office (22 agencies, 200,000 employees and $37.5B)
• Bio-Terrorism Response Capability.
Targeting Interventions.
• Combat almost exclusively about information.
• A key target is finding and disrupting networks.
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Prior Contacts
Small World Metrics
• CC = 0.41
• CPL = 4.75
• Shortcuts = 0.19
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http://www.orgnet.com/MappingTerroristNetworks.pdf
KM and National Security
Within Agencies Bureaucracy Can Stifle “Knowing What We Know.”
• CIA developing an ability to surge.
• NSA is creating new leadership networks and data mining algorithms.
Turf Wars Between Agencies (CIA and FBI) Preclude Action.
• Homeland Security Office (22 agencies, 200,000 employees and $37.5B)
• Bio-Terrorism Response Capability.
Targeting Interventions.
• Combat almost exclusively about information.
• A key target is finding and disrupting networks.
Educating Different Parties.
• How do you help create understanding amongst disparate groups?
• Religious and socio-economic differences.
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Discussion Questions For Class On
Knowledge Generation
Be prepared to tell me about the knowledge
brokering steps (and provide examples at
each point).
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