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McKinsey’s West Coast office reaches across six industry sectors. The largest of these sectors is technology (mirroring the West Coast economy in aggregate), with the others roughly similar in size
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Technology (includes hardware, software, networking, storage, telecommunications, semiconductors)
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Healthcare (includes biotech, pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Payor and Provider, medical devices, bioinformatics)
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Consumer/retail/media and entertainment (includes packaged goods, retail, film, printed media)
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Industrial sector (includes electric power, automotive assembly, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, engineering and construction, aerospace)
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Financial institutions (includes private equity, investment banks, retail banks, insurers, pension funds, public sector organizations)
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Nonprofit institutions (includes foundations, service providers, the arts, economic development)
The West Coast practice provides rich opportunities for associates to experience many different types of work through our ability to deliver the traditional capabilities for which the firm is known – strategy, organization, operations, corporate finance, and information technology – as well as to leverage the presence of several targeted practice and research groups resident on the West Coast. These include:
- The McKinsey Global Institute, co-located in our San Francisco Office, which conducts research on the workings of the global economy
- The Production System Design Center (PSDC), co-located in our Orange County Office, which specializes in lean manufacturing
In addition to these opportunities, West Coast consultants often participate in ongoing knowledge building initiatives that the firm undertakes. Several recent examples of these initiatives include:
- Business process outsourcing and off-shoring
- Technology sales productivity
- Lean retail operations
- Performance transformation
The West Coast has traditionally been a center for innovation within the firm. Examples of innovations led by consultants on the West Coast include the launch of the firm’s biotechnology sector service group and private equity practice, the establishment of a model for serving nonprofit organizations of global reach and scope (not simply through pro bono arrangements), the founding of the North American Production Systems Design Center for developing our lean manufacturing capabilities and expertise and serving our clients with distinctive lean expertise, and development of creative models for serving smaller, innovative companies.
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