Data Delivery and Transformation

We help clients unlock the value of their data

Data and analytics represents a 20% growth opportunity.

But to harness its full potential, organizations must become truly data-driven—embedding it in every decision, interaction and process.

These firms leverage their data to generate tremendous impact. They launch highly personalized experiences and seamlessly connected products. They scale new businesses, enter different markets, and become more resilient. And they build teams with the capabilities to turn insights into growth—again and again.

We help clients capture the value of data transformation at speed and scale. Together with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, and McKinsey Technology, we create the infrastructure, processes and culture that turns data and analytics into new sources of competitive advantage.

+$500m

impact

generated from an end to end data transformation for a market leading telecoms

20-30%

efficiency gains

for a global fashion retailer

>30%

better performance

by our clients compared to their close competitors

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Our approach

We partner with clients on targeted projects through to end-to-end transformations

We are always focused on delivering business value and sustainable advantage. Beyond strategy and delivery, we help build the capabilities and culture that data-driven organizations need to continue thriving.

Value-focused

We carefully identify and prioritize the most valuable opportunities for performance and growth—and design delivery roadmaps for faster returns on investment. Working as agile partners, we transform by doing, delivering quick wins that prove value from day one.

Accelerated Impact

Through our Data and Analytics Acceleration Lab, we leverage a wealth of proprietary tools and assets, industry-proven operating models and playbooks, and an ecosystem of delivery partners. The result? Accelerated value-driven transformations, from strategy, to implementation, to governance.

Lasting Capabilities

We partner with clients from the C-suite to the front line, ensuring they have the data-driven culture to turn transformation into sustained growth. Our dedicated programs help organizations upskill, attract and recruit the talent they need to thrive.

Featured Insights

Article

The data-driven enterprise of 2025

– Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be “data driven.”
Article

Data ethics: What it means and what it takes
– Every company must establish its own best practices for managing its data. Here are five pitfalls to avoid based on our conversations... with experts and early adopters.
Article

How to unlock the full value of data? Manage it like a product
– Creating reusable data products and patterns for piecing together data technologies enables companies to derive value from data... today and tomorrow.
Interview

How a tech company went from moving data to using data: An interview with Ericsson’s Sonia Boije
– Ericsson’s head of data enablement explains how the company is enabling its people to make full and effective use of data.
Article - McKinsey Global Institute

Five insights about harnessing data and AI from leaders at the frontier
– Four CEOs describe what goes into turning a world of data into a data-driven world.
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Our people

Liz Grennan
Expert Associate Partner, Stamford
Works with organizations on digital trust topics; an expert on emerging technologies and operational risk management
Holger Harreis
Senior Partner, Düsseldorf
Helps organizations implement transformation rapidly, with groundbreaking levels of adoption and impact
Gloria Macías
Partner, Madrid
Helps clients undertake digital transformation journeys that integrate business, technology, and culture
Marcus Roth
Partner, Tokyo
Deploys deep expertise in digital and analytics transformation across several sectors and is an expert in building multisector...
Kayvaun Rowshankish
Senior Partner, New York
Serves as a global coleader of our data transformation work, helping institutions and top executives transform industries and...
Prasoon Sharma
Partner, New York
Deep expertise in cutting-edge at-scale data architectures and analytics-based decision tools, machine learning, and big data....
Stuart Sim
Partner, New Jersey
Advises chief technology officers on complex, data-driven digital transformations to enable AI at scale, Industry 4.0 processes,...

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