McKinsey’s Organization Practice helps our clients improve their organizational effectiveness and top-team alignment to execute their strategic and operational agendas—and create enduring value and competitive advantage from turnarounds, reorganizations, and mergers. Almost all client engagements at McKinsey either explicitly or implicitly deal with organizational issues, ranging from full-blown performance transformations to situations where organizational thinking enhances the project’s impact.
Through our core service lines, our global network of consultants and experts helps leaders tackle four main organizational challenges:
- Designing organizations for high performance
- Managing major change
- Competing through talent
- Realizing maximum deal value from mergers
In all our work, we bring analytical rigor to the science of organization, using facts and benchmarks to scope the opportunity and measure results. Moreover, every effort to strengthen organizations is integrated with business imperatives: executing strategy, improving operations, meeting customer needs.
We focus not just on short-term results, but also on building organizational health—the capabilities and qualities that underpin sustained performance. Finally, we ensure that organizational change is personal: we help individual leaders and top teams shift their own mind-sets and model the change they want to see in others.
Within the Organization practice, we have practitioners with a background as generalist consultants, as well as specialist colleagues with a deep organizational focus. In the last 5 years, we have carried out more than 8,000 organization engagements worldwide. Our experience in organization consulting spans a wide range of industries including financial institutions, global energy and materials, health care, consumer goods and retail, and high tech and telecoms.