About Michael

Dr. Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey's business and economics research arm, where he leads research on the impact of information technologies and innovation on business, the economy, and society. Michael has led McKinsey research in such areas as Big Data, Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies, and the Internet of Things.

Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences, and his research has been cited in leading publications around the world. His PhD dissertation, entitled "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: Web Searching as Query Refinement," examined Web user search behaviors and the usability of Web search engines.

As a McKinsey consultant, Michael served clients in the high-tech, media, and telecom industries on strategy, innovation and product development, IT, sales and marketing, M&A, and organization.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first chief information officer of the city of Bloomington, Indiana, where he re-architected the enterprise architecture using open source technologies and led a project that resulted in Bloomington becoming the first community in the world to offer both live and archived video streaming of public meetings on the Web.

Before that, Michael was founder and executive director of HoosierNet, Inc., a nonprofit cooperative Internet service provider that offered dial-up and broadband access to the Internet to consumers, nonprofits, governments, and businesses.

Michael is based in McKinsey's San Francisco Office.

Selected published work 

“Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011

“Internet matters: The 'Net's sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011

“Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch,” McKinsey Quarterly, August, 2010

“The Internet of Things,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2010

“Six ways to make Web 2.0 work,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2009

Education