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Business Technology

Our business technology consultants work with executives on their most challenging technology issues across a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecoms and high tech.

McKinsey’s Business Technology Practice was launched in 1997 to build knowledge and expertise in IT-related matters. We help our clients develop and implement technology strategies for maximum business impact.

We work with our clients to:

  • Understand the long-term technological forces that are affecting their business
  • Develop IT strategies that are tightly aligned with business goals, and design appropriate organisation and governance approaches to deliver the greatest value
  • Harness technology to digitize business processes
  • Deliver critical IT projects on time and within budget while capturing maximum business benefit and value
  • Optimise enterprise architecture, infrastructure and application management.

In London, the Business Technology Practice has more than 50 consultants with deep knowledge of IT-related top management issues. We help multinational and local businesses from a wide range of sectors including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecoms and high tech. Our consultants have developed deep knowledge in areas as diverse as capital markets IT and operations, multichannel marketing and sales, big data, healthcare informatics and digital transformation.

To learn more about our expertise, visit our global  Business Technology Practice site.

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Meet our people

Tunde Olanrewaju

Tunde Olanrewaju

Principal

Advises leading wholesale and retail banking clients on issues of strategy, organization, operations and technology

Jamie Cattell

Jamie Cattell

Principal

Advises leading life science and medical technology companies on challenges in commercial strategy and organisation