McKinsey Insights & Publications RSS Feeds https://www.mckinsey.com/ http://www.mckinsey.com/assets/dotcom/newsletters/images/mckinsey_logo_sm.jpg https://www.mckinsey.com/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:44:43 GMT en Copyright (c) McKinsey & Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Sitecore CMS: http://www.sitecore.net. Sitecore RSS module: McKinsey.RSS, Version=1.3.2.10154, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null Cognition co-founder and President Russell Kaplan explains why the next frontier of AI in software engineering is about more than writing code faster and what it takes to turn autonomous agents into measurable business value. https://www.mckinsey.com/uk/our-insights/getting-real-about-ai-how-ai-agents-are-changing-the-economics-of-software-engineering ecb0cde6-3043-4c33-8880-274fc40586e7 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 Our Insights Forward-deployed engineers work inside another company’s own systems. Three McKinsey leaders explain how FDEs help companies derive impact from AI. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-a-forward-deployed-engineer 43206ba7-25b9-4f51-b1c1-e97b0ef846fc Fri, 16 Oct 2026 McKinsey Explainers High Tech & Internet Generative AI Where you live shapes far more than you’d think. New research points to how community, place, and connection relate to getting ahead. https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/place-purpose-and-the-path-to-economic-mobility be8477b5-b4cc-47f4-8ac3-1b4b119c9728 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 Our Insights McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility Financial Inclusion McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility New research maps hidden upstream dependencies in the US semiconductor supply chain and outlines potential mitigation strategies to make the ecosystem more resilient. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/strengthening-supply-chains-behind-us-semiconductors 9bd9d8b0-147e-4890-965a-2f862a0cd475 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 Insights on Semiconductors Semiconductors Metals Chemicals United States Operations Risk Management Strategy Analysis now runs on AI time, but judgment still runs on human time. Three moves can help turn AI’s speed into better strategy decisions. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-judgment-bottleneck-balancing-ai-and-human-speeds-in-strategy d170daf7-833d-4432-8c94-8f2dda1051b0 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Artificial Intelligence Strategy McKinsey Quarterly Many organizations are still measuring AI adoption instead of value. The AI value curve helps identify where AI’s automation potential can be deployed most cost-effectively. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-ai-value-curve-the-economics-of-applying-ai-to-existing-work eda855b6-6a2a-438b-8745-7c0f1e223888 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 Insights on Artificial Intelligence Financial Services Health Care Public & Social Sector Generative AI Strategy Disruptive Technology Growth Innovation The shift from software as a service to AI-enabled planning could move decision-making from fixed cycles to real time, but success will require the right governance, expertise, and operating model. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/voices-on-planning-the-ai-powered-future-of-supply-chain 534230c7-b089-4ae3-a27f-b82b31c4edf4 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 Insights on Operations McKinsey Talks Operations McKinsey’s Capital Excellence experts discuss how AI and technology can boost construction productivity, address labor shortages, and accelerate delivery of complex capital projects. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/rewiring-capital-projects-to-boost-construction-productivity 692d3026-ffae-4a1e-a166-db203f5a0602 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 Insights on Operations Engineering & Construction Artificial Intelligence Operations Capability building Moving an AI tool from pilot to production can nearly quadruple its cost. Three McKinsey experts explain why—and how to tell whether it’s worth it. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-does-ai-really-cost d64946f4-3873-492c-a39f-e2e53145c314 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 McKinsey Explainers Artificial Intelligence An AI operating system can become an enterprise’s “second brain,” but only if CEOs rethink how management itself evolves. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-ai-operating-system-a-new-way-for-ceos-to-run-the-enterprise 4b2566ed-b2cf-458b-b10d-2e9faba015c6 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 Insights on Artificial Intelligence Insurance Generative AI Organization Digital and AI are changing the way capital projects are selected, designed, procured, built, and steered. Leaders are moving beyond pilots to rewire how projects are planned and delivered. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/why-the-future-of-capital-projects-belongs-to-digital-and-ai-enabled-teams 597c1c38-f458-4442-9dfb-e9dda6d9eaa0 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 Insights on Operations Engineering & Construction Operations Core IT Artificial Intelligence Customer experience is a competitive imperative for medtechs. To create a durable advantage, it must be designed into products from day one, not added as a post-sale service. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/why-medtechs-cant-afford-to-overlook-customer-experience 853b3ef8-6995-4a5a-ad36-eb4742580b22 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 Insights on Life Sciences Health Care Pharmaceuticals Consumer insights Digital Scaling an e-commerce start-up in India’s dispersed markets is challenging, but innovation, patience, and passionately solving hard problems have enabled Meesho’s founders to succeed. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-asia/meesho-making-e-commerce-everyones-business 1ccd8aa0-cbe2-4150-a171-7d73faffc456 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 Future of Asia Retail & Consumer Goods India Innovation Growth Artificial Intelligence Leading Asia A golden age for the industry is becoming a golden age for a smaller group of asset managers. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/asset-management-2026-plenty-for-the-few d22b4891-9fe7-44b1-a1d1-8800ac92b61b Mon, 12 Oct 2026 Insights on Financial Services Banking Asset Management Asia-Pacific Europe North and Central America Capital management Growth Strategy While debates about AI’s impact on the workforce dominate headlines, the biggest challenge ahead will be helping workers find the most direct pathway into growing jobs, write Eric Kutcher and Tanguy Catlin in Fortune. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/media-center/mckinsey-research-shows-ai-creating-more-jobs-than-automation-displaces-but-11-million-american-workers-will-need-help-this-decade 41ecf801-7a63-4a71-acbb-b6e71a887b1c Sun, 11 Oct 2026 Media Center Strategy is a team sport, but the value it creates ultimately depends on the CEO’s involvement. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-six-strategy-roles-a-ceo-must-not-delegate 5a0bf479-b529-4e63-b101-21afa7d1a304 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Strategy & Corporate Finance Leadership Strategy McKinsey Quarterly Leading companies are tracking six emerging patterns of geopolitical change and realigning their businesses to achieve resilience, seize growth, and build competitive advantage. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/geopolitics/our-insights/as-the-world-order-turns-leading-companies-are-keeping-pace-heres-how 853650e6-740e-4d6b-99cc-a7208eaf55e6 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 Insights on Geopolitics Geopolitics Strategy Artificial Intelligence As the relationship between consumer-packaged-goods companies and retailers becomes more complex, agentic AI can recapture lost sales. But are leaders ready to harness the technology’s power? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/our-insights/for-cpg-companies-agentic-ais-real-payoff-is-growth 01a74256-5c53-4038-a356-fcbb915c1e5e Fri, 09 Oct 2026 Consumer Packaged Goods Insights Consumer packaged goods Marrying Eastern philosophy and Western management culture has given many of Asia’s owner-CEOs a unique edge in growing their businesses. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-asia/future-of-asia-podcasts/shapers-and-founders-understanding-the-owner-mindset b3f84572-9699-4868-9a5d-23f4c2ebd9c5 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 Future of Asia Podcasts Asia-Pacific Leadership Organization From black swans to gray rhinos, geopolitical shocks are multiplying. Here’s the tool kit smart leaders use to see them coming. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/geopolitics/our-insights/the-playbook-for-seeing-around-geopolitical-corners 3f50c821-e43b-453d-af3d-5eb86ba358ea Thu, 08 Oct 2026 Insights on Geopolitics Public & Social Sector Geopolitics Risk Management Managing in Uncertainty The McKinsey Podcast https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/transformation/our-insights/why-ais-easiest-wins-are-misleading-ceos cf5a5355-f893-4a29-adbd-388f9d3acb8b Wed, 07 Oct 2026 Transformation Insights Artificial Intelligence As construction productivity stagnates, companies can stand out by employing granular, achievable rates of production to optimize schedules, improve productivity, and make delivery predictable. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/using-production-rates-to-excel-at-executing-construction-projects 73d5b82e-698d-477a-bf04-081697e027e1 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 Insights on Operations Engineering services Operations With industry performance plateauing, medtech leaders must earn back investor trust with fresh strategies and better execution. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/medtech-needs-more-than-a-market-rotation-to-win-back-investors 79b60ae5-af41-45c8-b71f-334dc4cdf874 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 Insights on Life Sciences Health Care Life Sciences From shipping and rare earths to energy and security, the Arctic is gaining importance in the global economy. The Financial Times’ Rana Foroohar explores its role in a new era of great-power competition. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-rana-foroohar-on-a-new-great-game-in-the-arctic 315b9bd4-3958-4875-b6a7-5d1cc39326a6 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 McKinsey on Books Energy, Resources & Materials United States China Finland Europe Middle East Canada Geopolitics Operations Inference is reshaping AI economics, infrastructure architectures, and investment priorities across the semiconductor ecosystem. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/scaling-ai-inference ff75a5eb-f564-4f47-963d-8f63be8a8679 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 Insights on Semiconductors Semiconductors Software Generative AI Core IT The first phase of enterprise AI put powerful new tools in people’s hands. Capturing the larger opportunity from agentic AI will require leaders to rethink the shape of the organization itself. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/ai-is-changing-work-now-it-has-to-change-the-organization ebd8e8ee-06c6-4024-b0a3-a93b8977d887 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 Insights on People & Organization People & Organization Generative AI Organization McKinsey Quarterly Agentic AI is reshaping the case for modernization in insurance. Leaders from Guidewire, Bessemer Venture Partners, and SAP discuss how insurers can respond, considering their existing commitments. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/pause-pivot-or-accelerate-saas-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai 43575ddf-ea76-4a55-a84c-456f16b28127 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 Insights on Financial Services Property & casualty insurance Generative AI Cloud computing As technology transforms the factory floor, industrial companies are confronting a broader question: What will it take to lead the next era of manufacturing? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/industrials/our-insights/siemens-next-reinvention-an-interview-with-cedrik-neike 76e02c0e-3027-48ee-ac0f-6e694bc60d61 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 Insights on Industrials Manufacturing High Tech & Internet Artificial Intelligence Innovation Leadership Household budgets in Africa are tight and channels increasingly fragmented. Four trends are redefining how consumers discover, decide, and spend, and how consumer-facing companies can respond. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/our-insights/state-of-consumer-africa-2026-meeting-the-pragmatic-shopper 370d97b7-7032-4ccc-81ab-c68460a02d2c Fri, 02 Oct 2026 Consumer Packaged Goods Insights Consumer packaged goods Financial Services Telecommunications Kenya Morocco Nigeria Republic of South Africa Consumer insights Digital Analytics The risk function’s fundamental purpose has not changed, but the nature of the risks, the pace at which they materialize, and the tools available to manage them have. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/risk-and-resilience/our-insights/the-banks-digital-twin-the-future-of-nonfinancial-risk-management fb3c2268-4672-4cff-b41e-d7be4e51e3f2 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 Risk & Resilience Insights Financial Services Banking Risk & Resilience Financial Services Banking Risk Management Artificial Intelligence Digital Boards and CEOs can build value-creation plans that withstand and even benefit from shareholder activist scrutiny. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/shareholder-activism-is-changing-are-companies-ready 2c1b677a-d61b-4353-9e9b-fc0d0a54fe99 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Companies often have significant opportunities to unlock cash. Four practices can help CFOs free it up. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-cash-hiding-in-plain-sight b12e091a-6181-4d36-9796-0471615ecdb9 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Strategy & Corporate Finance Corporate Finance The National Nuclear Security Administration’s CIO shares that modernization means rebuilding infrastructure, data, and talent at once—while keeping the mission and a relentless pace of change in mind. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/modernizing-for-the-mission-an-interview-with-jamie-wolff 404aa395-ff3e-4751-82d7-3a84d6e98bb4 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 Public Sector Insights Public Sector Defense & security United States Artificial Intelligence Digital With a more coordinated approach, smaller cities in the middle of the country could generate trillions of dollars in added economic output. https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/americas-next-growth-opportunity-an-investment-ready-heartland a163caee-e7a0-4be9-a22b-4fd5b142940b Thu, 01 Oct 2026 Our Insights Rural development United States Microeconomics McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility McKinsey research finds that companies executing transformations with rigor are much more likely to meet overall organizational transformation goals. Chris Hagedorn, Preeya Mody, and Michel Morenville join us to discuss what rigor really means in the context of transformation and how to embed it throughout the process, from setting the aspiration, to mobilization, to delivering impact. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-to-drive-transformations-with-rigor 603109bb-c6b5-4e80-b3b7-0f889e13417d Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Public debt and search for growth exercise minds of economists and policymakers as US debt hits record high; inflation fueled by energy supply uncertainty limits room for maneuver on interest rates. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/global-economics-intelligence 384a1022-063a-4b70-9b61-9ce3a506b5cf Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Economic Studies There are certain aspects of the AI opportunity that chief executives cannot hand off to others—raising the organization’s ambition, rearchitecting how it works, and resetting its culture. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-ceos-singular-impact-on-the-success-or-failure-of-ai-in-organizations f5ad3e3f-ef2f-4a08-81b5-b07e0ff5cb4e Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Artificial Intelligence Leadership Organization Executives’ economic pessimism has eased since June, but they remain cautious. Negative views continue to be more common than positive ones, and expectations for the next six months are mixed. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/economic-conditions-outlook 94c86e8f-5fb8-4603-a0ca-f1ee1a90d41a Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Economic Studies Strategy A McKinsey survey finds that New Yorkers prioritize healthy longevity—and spend accordingly. https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/evidence-over-hype-new-yorks-path-to-a-healthy-longevity-economy f41ef03c-1d26-4205-b538-d7ea7de2d9e2 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Our Insights Health Care McKinsey Health Institute United States Growth Innovation Sustainability MHI Insights Grid McKinsey Health Institute AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/workforce-in-motion-skills-and-pathways-to-future-jobs-in-the-united-states 68e3d8fa-e50f-43b1-813e-21f1281666ad Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Research High Tech & Internet McKinsey Global Institute United States Artificial Intelligence Labor markets Managing in Uncertainty Human resources Management processes Productivity Disruptive Technology MGI Research Mayfield’s former Chief Marketing Officer Kamini Ramani draws on Indian women leaders’ experiences in corporate America to bring a culturally rooted lens to ambition, resilience, and leadership. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-can-you-fulfill-your-ambition-and-compose-a-life dc310c36-1517-4d20-8b25-03761c8885ed Tue, 29 Sep 2026 McKinsey on Books Professional Services United States India Leadership Diversity Over the next decade, AI, automation, and economic forces like demographic aging will set off the largest workforce restructuring in history, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/media-center/americas-next-workforce-challenge-building-pathways-to-better-jobs 80c9d9cb-6691-4e58-a217-70c18181734a Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Media Center Subsidized AI pilots are expiring as usage explodes. Here’s how US public sector leaders can treat AI spend as a managed category before the bill arrives. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-next-phase-of-government-ai-economics 42a5958b-83d2-4141-83ae-99e737395b8e Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Public Sector Insights Public Sector Government United States Artificial Intelligence Corporate Finance Mikhail Lomtadze, cofounder and CEO of Kaspi, believes the only measure that matters is whether Kaspi makes customers’ lives better or not—and why that single conviction changes everything else. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-asia/make-life-better-mikhail-lomtadzes-customer-first-philosophy a6dc8083-ff0c-41a0-999f-9eadc0996ec7 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Future of Asia Health Care Asia-Pacific Generative AI Innovation Nearly 90 percent of companies are investing in AI, but only 6 percent see material impact. The difference is in how they approach it. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/how-leaders-are-turning-ai-into-growth 6861d937-7980-426a-8433-ad087d47779b Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Growth, Marketing & Sales Insights Growth, Marketing & Sales Growth While there is no single prescription for energy security, strengthening “response capacity,” such as by establishing stockpiles, substituting sources, and diversifying suppliers, is essential. The point is not to eliminate vulnerabilities altogether, but to ensure that there are options when disruption arrives, write Diego Hernandez Diaz, Luciano Di Fiori, and Tiago Devesa in Project Syndicate. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/media-center/energy-security-in-an-age-of-disruption 24d90b36-c322-455f-aedc-9a21415b900f Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Media Center Partnering with McKinsey, the airline rewired its organization to make digital and AI core parts of the business—transforming the passenger experience, accelerating growth, and unlocking new levels of operations performance. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel/how-we-help-clients/latams-reinvention-at-35000-feet 722a11fa-e304-4504-a725-d36eb61ad5e7 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 How We Help Clients Logistics Travel North America Fear and change can go hand in hand. Executives who understand this can significantly improve their odds of transformation success, while the executives who don’t risk sabotaging their change programs. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/leading-when-change-feels-threatening ccd82438-6a14-402e-a06c-fa431e77ee14 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Insights on People & Organization People & Organization Leadership Organization Commodity markets have entered a new era of persistent volatility. For fuel retailers, this is a chance to strengthen resilience and unlock value, but only with strategic investment and a shift in mindset. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights/navigating-the-new-normal-building-resilience-in-fuel-retail-trading 50805ec7-d388-436b-ab41-2e520b1db0c0 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Oil & Gas Insights Oil & Natural Gas Retail & Consumer Goods United States Operations Risk Management Analytics As AI reshapes roles, leaders face a bigger question: how to rethink jobs, teams, and the way work gets done in a fundamentally different era. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/ai-is-changing-how-we-work-is-your-organization-ready 1a6db8a4-6f22-4435-9663-6a8d6d3ebc9d Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Insights on People & Organization People & Organization Organization