About Michael
Dr. Michael Chui is a principal of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey's business and economics research arm, where he leads research on the impact of information technologies and innovation on business, the economy, and society. Michael has led McKinsey research in such areas as Big Data, Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies, and the Internet of Things.
Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences, and his research has been cited in leading publications around the world. His PhD dissertation, entitled “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: Web Searching as Query Refinement,” examined Web user search behaviors and the usability of Web search engines.
As a McKinsey consultant, Michael served clients in the high-tech, media, and telecom industries on strategy, innovation and product development, IT, sales and marketing, M&A, and organization.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first chief information officer of the city of Bloomington, Indiana, where he re-architected the enterprise architecture using open source technologies and led a project that resulted in Bloomington becoming the first community in the world to offer both live and archived video streaming of public meetings on the Web.
Before that, Michael was founder and executive director of HoosierNet, Inc., a nonprofit cooperative Internet service provider that offered dial-up and broadband access to the Internet to consumers, nonprofits, governments, and businesses.
Michael is based in McKinsey’s San Francisco office.
Selected published work
“Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2013
“Evolution of the networked enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey results,” McKinsey & Company, March 2013
“Capturing business value with social technologies,” McKinsey Quarterly, November 2012
“The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies,” McKinsey Global Institute, July 2012
“Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011
“Internet matters: The 'Net's sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011
“Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch,” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2010
“The Internet of Things,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2010
“Six ways to make Web 2.0 work,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2009
Education
| Indiana University |
PhD in computer science and cognitive science
MS in computer science |
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| Stanford University |
BS in symbolic systems |
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