Confronted with growing public demand for services, governments and public organizations all over the world are committed to meeting new and bigger performance challenges in a context of tightening budgetary constraints.
McKinsey’s Public Sector Practice serves public institutions of all types: states and governments, operators and agencies, regulators, public enterprises and international organizations. To help them fulfill their public service mission, our experts counsel them in structuring and implementing policies or programs, with the aim of offering citizens better service at a lower cost to the community. The Public Sector Practice has carried out more than 2,000 engagements worldwide, involving challenges in the fields of strategy, organization, and operations, as well as IT, finance, and risk management.
Our work encompasses all major public policy areas, particularly education, public finance, healthcare, defense, security, and justice. In all of our consulting engagements, we stress the need to involve public sector officials and develop capabilities within the client’s organization—thus ensuring lasting impact and establishing the base for continuous improvement.
The Public Sector Practice is also committed to developing our thinking on public services. We created the McKinsey Center for Government (MCG), our global hub for research, collaboration, and innovation in the public sector. Drawing on a network of our specialized practitioners and external experts, MCG provides public sector decision makers and managers with a special opportunity to reflect and learn from each other.
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McKinsey also helps large organizations, NGOs, and foundations all over the world in addressing the most pressing societal challenges. We draw on all of our expertise to strengthen our clients' ability to deliver meaningful and sustainable change. We are active in many emerging countries on issues of economic development, including growth strategy, employment, training, agriculture, rural development, green growth, financial inclusion and development cooperation. We also advise emerging countries on issues related to education, public health, social innovation, and sustainable development.