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Eric Lamarre

Senior PartnerBoston

Collaborates with multiple industries on technology-enabled transformations

Eric serves clients from a range of industries, focusing on large-scale digital and AI transformations, core technology and operating model modernizations, productivity-improvement programs, and digitally enabled growth.

Examples of Eric’s recent work include:

  • working with senior leadership teams to help build their capabilities to undergo change successfully and sustainably
  • helping develop McKinsey’s Digital and AI client service methodologies and publishing extensively on the topic
  • co-authoring the book “Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI”

Previously, Eric was a managing partner of McKinsey Canada. He collaborated on the development and growth of McKinsey’s Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver offices.

Eric is also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors.

Published work

Choose the right transformation ‘bite size’,” McKinsey & Company, March 2024

MLOps so AI can scale,” McKinsey & Company, March 2024

A generative AI reset: Rewiring to turn potential into value in 2024,” McKinsey & Company, March 2024

Rewired and running ahead: Digital and AI leaders are leaving the rest behind,” McKinsey & Company, January 2024

In digital and AI transformations, start with the problem, not the technology,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

Rewired for value: Digital and AI transformations that work,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

What really works when it comes to digital and AI transformations?,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

The rewired enterprise: How five companies built to outcompete,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

Rewired to use AI’s superpower,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023

Rewired to outcompete,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2023

Digital transformations: The five talent factors that matter most,” McKinsey & Company, January 2023

Mining for tech-talent gold: Seven ways to find and keep diverse talent,” McKinsey & Company, September 2022

The digital-value guardian: CEOs and digital transformations,” McKinsey & Company, December 2021

Welcome to the Digital Factory: The answer to how to scale your digital transformation,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020

The COVID-19 recovery will be digital: A plan for the first 90 days,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020

It’s time to reset the IT talent model,” MIT Sloan Management Review, March 2020

Ten trends shaping the Internet of Things business landscape,” McKinsey & Company, January 2019

The cornerstones of large-scale technology transformation,” McKinsey Quarterly, October 2018

Banks and the digital flywheel: An engine for ongoing value capture,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018

Making sense of Internet of Things platforms,” McKinsey & Company, May 2017

Risk: Seeing around the corners,” McKinsey Quarterly, October 2009

Reducing risk in your manufacturing footprint,” McKinsey Quarterly, April 2009

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, civil and oceanographic engineering

Collège des ingénieurs
MBA

McGill University
BEng, civil engineering and applied mechanics