Operations

Achieving world-class operations through hands-on pragmatism

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HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

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Darya Borisova

Darya Borisova

Senior Partner, Moscow
Focuses on serving clients in the oil-and-gas and chemicals industries, as well as the transport, infrastructure, and logistics sectors
Rajat Dhawan

Rajat Dhawan

Senior Partner, Asia Practice Leader, Gurugram
Serves clients in the advanced industries sectors (automotive; electronics; aerospace and defence) in Asia-Pacific, focusing on promoting strategy...
Karel Eloot

Karel Eloot

Senior Partner, Shanghai
Focuses on broadly improving operations in industrial sectors, particularly for companies in China
Kevin J. Speicher

Kevin J. Speicher

Senior Partner, Chicago
Works with clients on operations, performance transformation, strategy, business building, and organizational issues
Philipp Radtke

Philipp Radtke

Senior Partner, Munich
Advises automotive manufacturers and suppliers, construction equipment makers, and other industrial producers as they improve global operations,...
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McKinsey Implementation
Find out how we work on site with clients to help them achieve long-term improvement and measurable, bottom-line results. We help strengthen leadership, transform processes, and build capabilities. Learn how we work intensively with clients across all industries and topics to improve performance and produce results: rapid, significant, measurable improvements in productivity, cost, quality, sales, and other metrics.

McKinsey model factories
Through our global network of capability centers, clients can “learn by doing” at model factories that simulate manufacturing, call center, and other workplace settings. The focus is on building capabilities—such as lean manufacturing, green operations, and quality control—and skills needed for transformational change.

Impact stories

Working across functions, a company redesigns and improves a medical device
When colleagues from purchasing, marketing, engineering, and sales came together to see how their product stacked up against four... rivals, they were inspired to explore a number of innovations.

With design-to-value process, company innovates products, reduces costs
By redesigning a forklift truck, an equipment company reduces both manufacturing costs and the cost of operation, adding to customer... satisfaction.

Design-to-value exercise helps company innovate products, compete more effectively
An appliance company researched customer preferences related to household fans. They also conducted product teardowns of both... their own and competitors' products. Both exercises resulted in new fan designs that were less expensive and more appealing to customers.

By rethinking packaging, a company reduces production costs while enhancing brand
By analyzing the labeling, use of recycled materials and the shape of the bottle, a consumer goods company reduced the cost of... shampoo packaging while maintaining the brand image.

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The work of leaders in a lean management enterprise
– Learn what successful lean leaders do to integrate new technologies and approaches, and to ensure that the practices that support continuous improvement also improve continuously.
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Careers

Interested in a career in Operations?

We are currently looking for experienced professionals across all Operations disciplines.
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Advanced Operations Group
Learn more about our group of Operations practitioners who bring deep functional and sector expertise from the industry.

Operations Excellence Program
Learn more about how our unique two-year training program, OEP, develops specialists in operations excellence.

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