McKinsey's Organizational Health Index (OHI) provides a reliable and fact-based way to measure organizational health, or the ability to build capacity and capability to achieve sustained performance improvement over time and across multiple dimensions. McKinsey research has shown that healthy companies are more than twice as likely to financially outperform competitors.

A well-thought-through organization design, explicitly linked to the overall strategy, can unleash latent organizational energy and improve overall performance. A design is more than lines and boxes; it includes defining accountabilities, outlining processes and linking mechanisms, ensuring top-team alignment, and supporting performance culture. Our approach to the design process is robust and collaborative beginning with a deep                                              understanding the current situation and securing cross-functional                                              involvement and rigorous execution.

An organization's ability to improve and sustain performance requires moving beyond structures, processes, and systems. It needs to also address individual and collective behavior, which includes culture, mind-sets and capabilities, and team and group dynamics. We work closely with clients to build a shared understanding of the situation and then design and implement an approach that often includes interventions to build skills, shift                                              mind-sets, build leaders, and manage talent to ensure a                                              successful and sustainable change in behaviors.

A performance transformation, which often integrates strategic operational, commercial, and organizational change, is an architected journey to a sustainable way of working at a significantly higher level. Whatever a company's, business unit's, or region's transformational aspiration—be it globalization, growth, a turnaround, or a new strategic direction—each journey is unique. McKinsey works closely with each client to design and support a                                              rigorous and disciplined approach that will achieve and sustain the                                              desired transformation.

Mergers and acquisitions are often an opportunity to rethink the business and fundamentally transform the organization in a way that creates and sustains significant value. We work with clients to understand the when and how of a combination vs. a transformation, and extend managerial reach for what could be a massive incremental process or redefinition of the business. We help companies undergoing a merger exceed not only external                                              expectations but their own as well.