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Podcast
Rewiring for the era of gen AI
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It’s easy to fall in love with gen AI—but recent research suggests that realizing its value is harder than the hype. Rewired offers a playbook that can help.
Survey
Gen AI’s next inflection point: From employee experimentation to organizational transformation
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As many employees adopt generative AI at work, companies struggle to follow suit. To capture value from current momentum, businesses...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Implementing generative AI with speed and safety
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Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here’s a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
A generative AI reset: Rewiring to turn potential into value in 2024
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The generative AI payoff may only come when companies do deeper organizational surgery on their business.
Article
Rewired and running ahead: Digital and AI leaders are leaving the rest behind
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Companies with strong digital and AI capabilities have figured out how to generate compounding value, according to new McKinsey...
Industry perspectives
Article
Five ways B2B sales leaders can win with tech and AI
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In a time of evolving competition and customer demands, B2B sales leaders can consider a range of technology innovations to help...
Article
Rewiring maintenance with gen AI
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Gen AI could be the right tool for today’s maintenance challenges.
Article
Extracting value from AI in banking: Rewiring the enterprise
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To gain material value from AI, banks need to move beyond experimentation to transform critical business areas, including by...
Article
Fortune or fiction? The real value of a digital and AI transformation in CPG
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A new McKinsey analysis quantifies the impact that digital and AI can have on consumer goods businesses and where consumer-packaged-goods...
Article
What it takes to rewire a CPG company to outcompete in digital and AI
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Answering six specific questions holds the key to successful digital and AI transformations for CPG companies.
Article
Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities
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Health system executives globally view digital and AI transformation as crucial to overcome many challenges, a new survey reveals,...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Freeport-McMoRan turns data into value
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A copper miner develops a recipe for success along its AI transformation journey.
Report
On the brink: Realizing the value of analytics in insurance
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Insurers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa invest significantly in advanced analytics but have unlocked a fraction of the...
Article
Clearing data-quality roadblocks: Unlocking AI in manufacturing
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An agile, data-centric approach can help clean and enrich data needed for machine learning. To move forward, manufacturers need...
Article
Unlocking the industrial potential of robotics and automation
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Results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey reveal that industrial companies are set to spend heavily on...
Article
Digital transformations in energy retail: A shift toward advanced platforms
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More energy retailers are transforming their digital platforms to cut costs and to stay competitive. We explore approaches to...
Article
Getting digital transformation right in resource-heavy industries
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Eight core principles can help companies in the energy, oil and gas, basic materials, and utilities sectors achieve successful...
Interviews
Interview
Global Lighthouse voices: A talk with LCFC CEO and Lenovo VP Xiaohui Ding
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Xiaohui Ding underscores that digital transformation is not a one-time project but a continuous self-revolution, that starts...
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
Direct from Michael Dell: Leadership lessons and the future of AI
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The CEO of Dell Technologies weighs in on what’s next for AI, how companies can successfully transform in the face of constant...
Interview
Embracing digital transformation with a digital factory
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In this interview, Alinma Bank's chief digital officer discusses the importance of a digital factory to the bank’s overall...
Interview
The power of pace in technology
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The CEO of Hivemind Technologies explains what steps matter in speeding software development for transformations.
Podcast
In digital and AI transformations, start with the problem, not the technology
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For digital and AI transformations to succeed, companies need to understand the problems they want to solve and rewire their...
Podcast
What really works when it comes to digital and AI transformations?
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McKinsey’s Rewired distills the lessons from successful digital and AI transformations so companies can build...
Interview
Author Talks: What is the key to unlocking digital transformation?
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McKinsey senior partners outline their new book designed to help companies harness the power of digital transformation.
Video
Digital transformation to achieve operational excellence
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Using principles of operational excellence, empowering workforces, and adding digital processes to production can help companies...
Interview
How LEGO plays with data: An interview with chief data officer Orlando Machado
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The iconic toymaker is unlocking the value from data to help rethink processes, surface new opportunities, excite consumers,...
Podcast
Digital transformation on the CEO agenda
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Successful digital transformations may not be as elusive as you think. The best CEOs know up front what success looks like—and...
More insights
Article
What is digital transformation?
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Digital transformation is the rewiring of an organization, with the goal of creating value by continuously deploying tech at...
Book Excerpt - Rewired
Choose the right transformation ‘bite size’
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Successful transformations need to change something meaningful in the business, but not try to do too much.
Book Excerpt - Rewired
MLOps so AI can scale
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Most of the failures in ML development come not from developing poor models but from poor productization practices.
Article
Ten unsung digital and AI ideas shaping business
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Keeping your eye on where value comes from is still the name of the game.
Article
The bottom-line benefit of the product operating model
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New data shows that operating model maturity is directly correlated with strong business performance outcomes.
Article - Harvard Business Review
Rewired for value: Digital and AI transformations that work
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Our analysis of data from the banking sector provides definitive proof on how digital and AI transformations create bottom-line...
Article
The rewired enterprise: How five companies built to outcompete
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Lessons from five rewired enterprises highlight how to turn initial digital gains into enterprise-wide ones.
Article - Fortune
Rewired to use AI’s superpower
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Harnessing the full value potential of ‘superpower’ technology like AI requires developers with the skills to use...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Rewired to outcompete
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Six signature moves led by the C-suite can build organizations that will outperform in the age of digital and AI.
Commentary
The EU digital strategy: The impact of data privacy on global business
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New data regulations from the European Union require organizational attention, and three key steps can help navigate the data...
Article
Women in tech: The best bet to solve Europe’s talent shortage
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To remain competitive in technological growth and innovation, Europe must recruit and retain women for the fastest-growing tech...
Article
Digital transformations: The five talent factors that matter most
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Setting up a winning digital and advanced-analytics organization is hard. Decisions about talent and technology will often determine...
Commentary
Generative AI is here: How tools like ChatGPT could change your business
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Generative AI and other foundation models are changing the AI game, taking assistive technology to a new level, reducing application...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Every company is a software company: Six ‘must dos’ to succeed
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As software transforms every industry, leaders must turn to a new playbook.
Article
The digital-value guardian: CEOs and digital transformations
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The CEO is ultimately the only one who can shape and guide a successful digital transformation. Here’s the playbook.
Article
Scaling AI like a tech native: The CEO’s role
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Embedding AI across an enterprise to tap its full business value requires shifting from bespoke builds to an industrialized AI...
Executive Briefing
How boards can help digital transformations
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Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.
Article
How do you measure success in digital? Five metrics for CEOs
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As organizations launch more and more digital initiatives, CEOs must monitor whether they are delivering business results. These...
Article
The CEO’s new technology agenda
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Technology performance has become critical to business success. Here’s how a CEO can focus the technology function on a...
Article
A CEO guide for avoiding the ten traps that derail digital transformations
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Transforming your business has risks. Successful leaders know how to spot them and avoid them.