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The 9 Traits of Future-Ready Companies

The document outlines 9 traits of future-ready companies which describe an organization's identity, operations, and growth. The traits include having a clear purpose and value agenda, a strong culture, a flat and team-oriented structure, fast decision making, treating talent as a scarce resource, embracing external partnerships, making data governance everyone's responsibility, and promoting organizational learning.

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The 9 Traits of Future-Ready Companies

The document outlines 9 traits of future-ready companies which describe an organization's identity, operations, and growth. The traits include having a clear purpose and value agenda, a strong culture, a flat and team-oriented structure, fast decision making, treating talent as a scarce resource, embracing external partnerships, making data governance everyone's responsibility, and promoting organizational learning.

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The 9 traits of

future-ready companies
Collectively, these traits describe who an
organization is, how it operates, and how it grows
Who are we?

Purpose is
our ‘must have’
Leaders at top companies know
their companies’ core reasons for
being—the “why” of their work
Who are we?

Our value
agenda is clear
Top companies have a clear value
agenda, allowing them to keep creating
value in ways that differentiate them
from rivals
Who are we?

Culture is our
‘secret sauce’
Top-quartile cultures enjoy 3x
the returns to shareholders as
bottom-quartile rivals
How do we operate?

We are
‘radically flat’
Top companies structure around
connectivity to replace the
traditional “hierarchy of bosses”
with a “network of teams” 
How do we operate?

We turbocharge
decision making
Future-ready companies make faster,
better decisions by creating systems
that appropriately divvy up decisions
among top leaders, teams, individuals,
and even algorithms
How do we operate?

Our talent is
scarcer than capital
Top companies recognize that talent is
their scarcest form of capital and pursue
its development with the rigor of any other
business strategy
How do we grow?

We embrace
ecosystems
Leading organizations
develop rich networks of
external partners—and
treat them as extensions
of themselves
How do we grow?

Data is everyone’s
business
Top companies create a clear approach
to data governance, redesign key
processes as modular applications,
and use the cloud to improve customer
and employee experiences
How do we grow?

We accelerate
learning
A pervasive learning orientation
accelerates individual, team, and
organizational learning
Follow our hashtag
#McKinseyOrganization
for more insights

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