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Mergers and acquisitions, when executed well, are one of the most critical tools companies can use to create value. But they’re not always the most popular path to growth. This was certainly true in 2023, a tough year for M&A by many measures. Yet hope springs eternal, thanks to a late-in-the-year rebound in deal activity and continued confirmation that programmatic acquirers (companies that pursue multiple small or midsize acquisitions every year) outperform their competition. This week, we look at the reasons why M&A might matter now more than ever and the ways that companies can prepare for their next deal.
It’s been a volatile few years for the M&A market, which was in a bona fide slump in 2023. While the S&P 500 rose by 24 percent, global deal value and volume were both lower than in the pandemic year of 2020. Despite the glum statistics, McKinsey senior partners Jake Henry and Mieke Van Oostende are optimistic about M&A’s prospects. In their 2024 M&A activity report, they predict a growing appetite for deals due to a few factors: amid major changes in the business environment, M&A is strategically essential to competitiveness; macroeconomic concerns, such as inflation, are tempering; and many investors have a healthy amount of cash on hand. While the M&A opportunity varies by industry and region, the report points to steps that all companies can take to prepare for a potential groundswell of transactions. Among them: reevaluating the company’s M&A themes and strategies (divestitures included) that are most relevant to the business, investing in the capabilities and assets that will support future portfolio changes, and pursuing partnerships and alternative deal types, such as joint ventures, to mitigate potential risks and financing issues.
That’s how much money the world’s 2,000 largest companies (or the “Global 2000”) spent on deals in the past decade. With the right M&A blueprint and capabilities, the payoff from transactions can be huge. Yet even with so much value at stake, McKinsey’s Ignacio Fantaguzzi and Christopher Handscomb say that one important M&A capability, culture, is often overlooked. “Differences in cultures can exist at any level and can seriously disrupt operations and jeopardize integration,” they say. “Companies may differ in their cultures around decision making—one may have a top-down, directive culture while the other’s is consultative and process-driven.” To practice effective culture management, it’s important for organizations to recognize the differences in how work gets done, decide on a future culture for the integrated company, and develop a change story that will inspire the new culture (and related behavioral changes) to take root.
That’s McKinsey’s Jeff Rudnicki and colleagues on the virtues of a “healthy” corporate culture in large M&A deals, or transactions in which the deal is worth at least 30 percent of the acquirer’s market capitalization. While the odds for success in large deals are essentially a coin toss, Rudnicki and coauthors explain that a few traits of organizationally healthy acquirers help give these companies a competitive edge: they are rigorous in their selection and management of talent, focused on the deal’s value proposition (and actively communicate that to stakeholders), and disciplined in their process of integrating a target.
Long-running McKinsey research continues to demonstrate the value of a programmatic approach to M&A, in which dealmaking is treated as a continuous process, rather than an event, that requires a robust set of capabilities. Not only does a programmatic M&A strategy yield consistently better returns than all other approaches to transactions, but it can also be instrumental in boosting a company’s resilience. “To develop that muscle, you need to think about M&A holistically, starting with a link to strategy,” says McKinsey’s Patrick McCurdy in a recent episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast with Tobias Lundberg, Jeff Rudnicki, and Joanna Stone Herman, a partner at M&A advisory firm Oaklins DeSilva & Phillips. McCurdy and colleagues also identify what they call “the three Cs”—competitive advantage, conviction, and capacity—which can enable programmatic acquirers to continue pursuing deals, and finding success, even through a downturn.
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Vital for growth. M&A dealmakers have weathered a tough year, with global M&A activity in 2023 dropping to $3.1 trillion, a 16% decrease from 2022. Still, CEOs across industries say that M&A is a more vital strategy than ever, McKinsey senior partners Jake Henry and Mieke Van Oostende reveal. Companies that made more than two small to midsize deals annually over ten years through 2022 delivered a median excess TSR of 2.3%, McKinsey’s latest analysis of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies found.
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How CEOs assess their performance
Plus, harnessing the power of gen AI in energy The CEO role is challenging, demanding, and important—particularly in today’s uniquely tough operating environment. But how are CEOs actually performing, and what can they do to reach their full potential? As we approach the second anniversary of the release of CEO Excellence, the best-selling book by McKinsey’s Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra, we look at how CEOs can succeed across their leadership journey. Our first featured story explores early results from our proprietary CEO Excellence Assessment Tool, which offer insights into the key issues facing more than 100 CEOs who primarily lead companies headquartered in Asia across 17 major industries. Our second featured story dives into how CEOs can excel at every stage of their journey: preparing for the role, transitioning into the role, navigating the middle years, and transitioning out of the role. Other highlights in this month’s issue include the following topics:
Beyond the hype: New opportunities for gen AI in energy and materials
Generative AI can create additional value from other forms of AI and analytics—and the energy and materials sector is uniquely well-positioned to benefit from these advancements.
Harness the powerOrganizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance
McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace.
See the resultsThe state of Black residents: The relevance of place to racial equity and outcomes
At the current pace of change, it could take decades to improve outcomes for Black Americans and more than three centuries to get to racial parity. How can different types of communities move closer to delivering a better quality of life for all residents?
Change the trajectoryTop M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
See what’s aheadWhat to expect from medtech in 2024
Our medtech predictions for the year ahead were inspired by conversations with more than 200 industry leaders and informed by McKinsey’s latest decade-ahead medtech report.
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Student achievement is stagnating globally and millions of children are not learning, but meaningful change is possible by taking lessons from systems that are beating the odds.
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EP101: Top 3 Things You Should Know About Webhooks
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How do we manage sensitive data in a system?
The cheat sheet below shows a list of guidelines.
What is Sensitive Data?
Personal Identifiable Information (PII), health information, intellectual property, financial information, education and legal records are all sensitive data.
Most countries have laws and regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. For example, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union sets stringent rules for data protection and privacy. Non-compliance with such regulations can result in hefty fines, legal actions, and sanctions against the violating entity.
When we design systems, we need to design for data protection.Encryption & Key Management
The data transmission needs to be encrypted using SSL. Passwords shouldn’t be stored in plain text.
For key storage, we design different roles including password applicant, password manager and auditor, all holding one piece of the key. We will need all three keys to open a lock.Data Desensitization
Data desensitization, also known as data anonymization or data sanitization, refers to the process of removing or modifying personal information from a dataset so that individuals cannot be readily identified. This practice is crucial in protecting individuals' privacy and ensuring compliance with data protection laws and regulations. Data desensitization is often used when sharing data externally, such as for research or statistical analysis, or even internally within an organization, to limit access to sensitive information.
Algorithms like GCM store cipher data and keys separately so that hackers are not able to decipher the user data.Minimal Data Permissions
To protect sensitive data, we should grant minimal permissions to the users. Often we design Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to restrict access to authorized users based on their roles within an organization. It is a widely used access control mechanism that simplifies the management of user permissions, ensuring that users have access to only the information and resources necessary for their roles.Data Lifecycle Management
When we develop data products like reports or data feeds, we need to design a process to maintain data quality. Data developers should be granted with necessary permissions during development. After the data is online, they should be revoked from the data access.
What does ACID mean?
The diagram below explains what ACID means in the context of a database transaction.
Atomicity
The writes in a transaction are executed all at once and cannot be broken into smaller parts. If there are faults when executing the transaction, the writes in the transaction are rolled back.
So atomicity means “all or nothing”.Consistency
Unlike “consistency” in CAP theorem, which means every read receives the most recent write or an error, here consistency means preserving database invariants. Any data written by a transaction must be valid according to all defined rules and maintain the database in a good state.Isolation
When there are concurrent writes from two different transactions, the two transactions are isolated from each other. The most strict isolation is “serializability”, where each transaction acts like it is the only transaction running in the database. However, this is hard to implement in reality, so we often adopt loser isolation level.Durability
Data is persisted after a transaction is committed even in a system failure. In a distributed system, this means the data is replicated to some other nodes.
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A lost art? Workplace rituals can bring colleagues together, helping people move beyond “me” to “we,” McKinsey partner Bryan Hancock and senior partner emeritus Bill Schaninger share in an episode of the McKinsey Talks Talent podcast. The pandemic paused many such rituals, to the extent that the youngest cohort in the workforce might not be familiar with them. Rituals can be milestones to celebrate important events, such as making partner or clinching a deal, but they are not limited to major accomplishments. During a routine meeting, colleagues can share cool projects they have worked on that week, helping everyone (particularly younger colleagues) get a feel for the breadth of their work.
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How Video Recommendations Work - Part 1
How Video Recommendations Work - Part 1
The digital landscape has seen dramatic changes in how information is retrieved, moving from simple web portals to complex recommendation systems. This shift has been driven by the rapid increase of online content and the growing demand for personalized, relevant experiences. Let’s dive into the four pivotal stages for this evolution.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for moreLatest articles
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The digital landscape has seen dramatic changes in how information is retrieved, moving from simple web portals to complex recommendation systems. This shift has been driven by the rapid increase of online content and the growing demand for personalized, relevant experiences. Let’s dive into the four pivotal stages for this evolution.
In the mid-1990s, search engines like Yahoo! were rudimentary, focusing on text-based searches with basic algorithms for indexing web pages. The search results were ranked based on keyword matches without considering the user’s context or personal preferences. This phase was about cataloging the burgeoning web content as the internet started its exponential growth.
Enter Google with its PageRank algorithm, revolutionizing search by evaluating not just keyword relevance but also the quality and quantity of page links. This significantly improved the relevance and quality of search results, marking a leap forward in information retrieval.
As the internet grew, search engines started to incorporate more nuanced data, including users’ search histories, locations, and devices, to refine search results. This period also introduced diverse content types – images, videos, and news – directly into search results, making the experience more personal and comprehensive. However, this increased personalization also sparked privacy and data protection concerns.
Today, we’re in an era dominated by AI and machine learning, powering recommendation systems that suggest content not based on explicit queries but on users’ past behaviors, preferences, and interactions. Giants like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon rely on these systems to enhance engagement and drive sales.
Recommendation systems represent a significant shift from user-initiated information retrieval to active content curation. In the past, there wasn’t so much content online, and users could easily discover content through keyword-based searches. Now, with the internet’s vast expanses of data, platforms compete for users’ attention, and recommendation systems play a crucial role in filtering and presenting personalized content. It’s often quipped that these systems know us better than we know ourselves.
In this issue, we’ll explore the inner workings of recommendation systems and their pivotal role in driving a company’s revenue. Stay tuned as we uncover the secrets behind how YouTube and other platforms tailor content to captivate and engage their audiences.
1 Why Do We Need Recommendation Systems?
Recommendation systems are everywhere these days. Whether shopping on Amazon, binge-watching on YouTube or scrolling through TikTok, these systems curate content specifically for us, potentially leading to hours of engagement. But why are these systems so crucial, especially for platforms like YouTube?
At the heart of platforms like YouTube is a dynamic ecosystem involving content creators, viewers, and advertisers. Content creators produce videos, viewers consume this content, and advertisers aim to capture viewers’ attention. Recommendation systems play a pivotal role in enhancing this ecosystem, attracting more creators, viewers, and advertisers.
The diagram below shows the effects of a recommendation system on the YouTube platform.
Without recommendation systems, viewers would have to sift through content to find what interests them, while advertisers manually searched for their ideal audience. This made discovery cumbersome and less effective, with many views and advertisers missing out on potentially perfect matches.
Smart recommendation systems transform the experience by leveraging algorithms that analyze various data points – view history, user profiles, trending topics, and recommendations from friends – to personalize content for viewers. This tailored approach means viewers are more likely to engage deeply with content, encouraging creators to produce more and advertisers to invest more, thanks to better targeting and higher conversion rates.
Consider an e-commerce giant like Amazon, where recommendation systems personalize product suggestions. Even a 1% improvement in their recommendation accuracy can translate into tens of millions in sales revenue daily. This massive impact underscores why major companies continually invest in enhancing their recommendation algorithms and models.
The investment in recommendation systems isn't just about boosting sales or viewer numbers; it's about enriching user experiences and fostering user retention. These systems are designed to understand and anticipate user preferences which create a more engaging and personalized online experience.
2 How Does a Recommendation System Select For Us?
Now that we understand the role of a recommendation system in enhancing a business’s ecosystem, let’s dive deeper into how these systems curate content for us.
At the heart of a recommendation system is a deep-learning model designed to predict user preferences for specific videos. This involves scoring and ranking videos, integrating advertisements, and generating the final set of recommendations. Unlike simpler models, a deep learning-based system can more accurately mimic the complex process of human decision-making for content selection.
To train the model to predict user preferences accurately, it’s essential to analyze data from three key sources:
Videos: Considering the vast size of video data, the model leverages various attributes such as video descriptions, tags, actual content, and viewer impressions to derive video features.
Users: Understanding user preferences is crucial. This is achieved by analyzing static data, like user profiles, and dynamic data, including interaction patterns like clicks and social network interactions.
Context: Contextual factors, such as location and time, deeply impact content preferences. The model considers these elements to fine-tune its suggestions.
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What would it take for Black US residents to achieve racial parity?
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Racial-parity improvement? Despite some progress toward racial parity for Black Americans, large disparities with their White counterparts persist. “There is nowhere in the US where outcomes for Black residents equal those of their White neighbors,” McKinsey senior partner Shelley Stewart and coauthors share. Across seven community profiles, they analyzed residents’ aspirations, including basic standard of living, financial stability, and stable and secure homes. The report reveals that the greatest overall outcomes and Black residential parity exist within the nation’s suburbs and exurbs; however, less than 12% of Black Americans live in these areas.
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👀 This month at Remote: Explore if async work is the future. Check out HRIS updates and don't miss our live events and webinars.
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Celebrating and exploring asynchronous work
This month, we're celebrating asynchronous work at Remote. Our entire team, which now consists of over 1,400 members, operates without offices or a centralized timezone. Over the last 5 years we've learned quite a bit about effective asynchronous work on a large scale. In fact, our CEO Job has just launched a free masterclass on the subject!
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🔭 Why is everyone talking about observability?
🔭 Why is everyone talking about observability?
Unravel the mysteries of observability and find out why it's the hottest topic in tech!Got your ears perked for the latest tech talk? Well, you're in for a treat because we're diving headfirst into the world of observability – and trust us, it's more than just a buzzword.
In short, well-implemented API observability can deliver:
- Faster issue responses: Swiftly address API issues with monitoring
- Quick value delivery: Expedite value delivery through troubleshooting
- Enhanced quality: Improve user experiences with higher-quality APIs
- Deeper understanding: Gain insights to optimise API ecosystems.
Embracing observability isn't just about keeping pace - it's about driving tangible business value by supercharging operations, boosting performance, and staying ahead of the competition.
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Everyone's talking about observability
Observability is a hot topic right now – and it’s about to get even hotter. Future Market Insights predicts the observability platform market will more than double in size by 2032, growing from a value of US$2,173.7 million in 2022 to US$5,553.2 million a decade later. So, why is everyone so excited?
The business value of observability
Observability, especially distributed tracing, transforms API monitoring and troubleshooting. Beyond that, it offers valuable insights for maintaining control, security, and compliance in an organisation's API ecosystem. Here, we delve into the business benefits of observability for API teams. Read more.
How to improve API observability
Getting API observability right underpins API-led growth. It can identify opportunities for revenue, support better decision-making and reduce operational overheads by creating more efficient working practices, particularly when it comes to open standards. Find out more.
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How are higher costs affecting US consumers?
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5 strategies for consumer brands Brought to you by Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer and managing partner, global industry practices, & Homayoun Hatami, managing partner, global client capabilities
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Choosier consumers. US consumers are becoming choosier despite a relatively strong economy and low unemployment, McKinsey senior partner Warren Teichner and coauthors reveal. Although Americans are shopping as frequently—if not more often—as they were a year ago, they are buying fewer items on each trip. Between 2022 and 2023, units per trip declined by 3 to 5% across the grocery, health and beauty, and household categories.
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Temperature Monitoring Software - Keep Temperature Sensitive Goods at the Right Temperature.
Temperature Monitoring Software - Keep Temperature Sensitive Goods at the Right Temperature.
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Banks can face risks and opportunities head-on
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App happy. Despite challenges, the past 18 months have been the best period for global banking since at least 2007. But this is no time for complacency, McKinsey senior partner Alex Edlich and partner Reinhard Höll share on a recent episode of The McKinsey Podcast. To build on this momentum, they say, banks can meet customers where they are, which is often on third-party apps. Up to 30% of distribution in retail banking could end up taking place via third parties, such as online comparison platforms and embedded finance, McKinsey estimates.
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Competing on technology. When it comes to making changes in technology, banks need to make sure the entire organization is on board, Höll advises. After implementing generative AI, the top 25% of banks experienced a large increase in coders’ productivity, while the bottom 25% of banks “saw an initial decrease because they didn’t take the people along,” Höll says. Learn three things tech-savvy banking leaders are doing to embrace technology, and for more, read the full report, Global Banking Annual Review 2023: The Great Banking Transition.
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