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Rita McGrath

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Sector Experience

Rita's Sector Experience

Looking at the world through the lens of your existing industry can be a dangerous trap. Over time, people become so accustomed to the way their industry works that they forget that strategic inflection points can make the old industry assumptions irrelevant. Indeed, entire industries are being thrown into highly uncertain, ambiguous and volatile situations. For almost every line of business, this new environment requires new ways of working, new business models and certainly new financial models. Rita’s talks provide a different lens—that of the competitive arena—to broaden your view and help you to “see around corners.”

Advertising

Events

  • Columbia Media Forum regular attendee and speaker

Commentary

  • Newsletter about advertising

Agriculture

Events

  • Purdue Agricultural Leadership Summit keynote
  • Seed CEO Summit

Commentary

  • Newsletter about agriculture

Apparel

Events

  • American Apparel and Footwear Annual Conference

Commentary

  • Newsletter about apparel

Chemicals

Events

  • Management team retreat for PPG Industries
  • Management workshops for Praxair
  • Leadership sessions with DuPont
  • Keynote, American Chemical Society

Consumer Packaged Goods

Events

  • Innovation keynote Colgate Palmolive

Commentary

  • Comments on cumulative advantage in HBR
  • Marketplace piece on Harry’s and Edgewell

Energy/Natural Resources

Events

  • Atmos Energy Board Retreat and Workshop
  • Halliburton client event
  • Stavanger Day, Statoil

Commentary

  • Article on clean energy

Financial Services

Events

  • Goldman Sachs seminar and client series
  • The Penrose Lectures at SOAS University of London
  • Nordea presentation / webinar
  • Swedbank workshop / innovation day
  • Yapi Kredi Bank, Istanbul
  • Bancoldex, Bogota
  • Temenos key client event, Barcelona
  • Keynote, Frontiers of Digital Finance

Commentary

  • Blog post on financialization
  • Blog post on venture capital
  • CNN Business article on stock buybacks
  • Fortune article about Transferwise

Grocery, Food & Beverage

Events

  • Yum! Brands webinar series
  • Pernod Ricard
  • Leading Hotels of the World

Commentary

  • Newsletter about big changes in the grocery business
  • Newsletter about the fickle competition in CPG
  • CNBC article on big food brands losing relevance

Health Care

Events

  • Grifols / Novartis Keynote
  • Keynote for Kaufman Hall main client event
  • Bristol Myers Squibb LEAD program faculty director
  • Providence St. Joe’s Healthcare board level retreat
  • Keynote American Hospital Association

Commentary

  • Newsletter about healthcare

Human Resources

Events

  • CNBC @ Work
  • Keynote, CIPD Annual meeting, Manchester, UK
  • HR World Congress, Chile
  • HR Directors Summit, UK

Citations

  • Voted HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinker

Commentary

  • CNBC panel on building a culture of trust
  • Blog post on the changing business of people
  • Podcast on the implications of innovation for HR strategies

Industrials

Events

  • Keynotes / workshops / training sessions – General Electric
  • Lincoln Industries
  • Metal Services Institute
  • Leadership sessions for 3M
  • Workshops for Ingersoll Rand

Commentary

  • Chapters in End of Competitive Advantage

Insurance

Events

  • Swiss Reinsurance master class in strategy

Commentary

  • Newsletter about insurance

Logistics

Events

  • Geodis senior management retreat, Nashville

Commentary

  • Blog post on digital’s impact on logistics

Media & Entertainment

Events

  • DirecTV Senior Management Meeting (prior to ATT acquisition)
  • BRITE Conference keynote speaker

Commentary

  • Newsletter about media and entertainment
  • Blog post on Netflix and the battle for disposable time
  • Commentary on the AT&T/Time Warner deal

NGO

Events

  • Keynote, D3 Annual Board Retreat
  • World Bank Advisory Council
  • Keynote, Girl Scouts Council and Board retreat

Professional Services

Events

  • Managing Partner Forum, London
  • PwC client event for tax professionals
  • Accenture Strategy Week leadership retreat
  • Program for Deloitte partners

Commentary

  • “The Trouble With Consulting” newsletter

Project Management

Events

  • IPS Learning
  • Project Management Institute

Publishing

Events

  • Holtzbrinck Senior Leader’s program
  • Wolters Kluwer Innovation Board
  • Thompson Reuters Legal workshop / retreat
  • Harvard Business Review management retreat / facebook live session
  • Sulzberger program for journalists

Retail

Events

  • Barnes & Noble senior management retreat/offsite
  • GS Shop (Korea) senior management workshop

Commentary

  • MSNBC segment on Walmart
  • Fortune article on Target losing touch with customers
  • Holiday shopping newsletter

Technology

Events

  • ScaleCon keynote
  • Analogic Board meeting / workshop
  • Keynote for LinkedIn client retreat
  • Business of Software keynote at annual meeting
  • Keynote, Fujitsu client event, Munich
  • SHI International, several events

Commentary

  • Newsletter about VARs
  • Bloomberg interview on unicorns

Telecommunications

Events

  • Keynotes for Ericsson, many dates
  • Sessions for Singtel, Telecomm incumbent in Singapore
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