Organize to Value

Build your operating model with value at the core

Align your organization to value

A well-designed operating model is the engine that turns strategy into impact and drives value in the face of volatility. Disruptive trends—from AI and automation to increased competition—are reshaping industries, and organizations must become more adaptive and resilient to stay ahead.

Even high-performing companies miss out on the full value of their strategy. Our research reveals a significant gap between strategy and performance that can be attributable to the operating model.

With the right operating model in place, organizations can achieve four key outcomes essential for success, effectively navigating technological, geopolitical, and societal trends to withstand shocks and seize new opportunities.

McKinsey’s Organize to Value approach aligns on an aspiration rooted in the organization’s strategic context and value. Our data-backed, tech-enabled methods uncover a business’s unique strengths and opportunities to create more value—in up to half the time.

We don’t just help you build a winning future operating model; we ensure its successful implementation by fostering a culture of continuous improvement. In a world where change is constant, reimagining your operating model is the key to thriving.

How we help clients

Our approach to operating model transformation drives four outcomes:

Clarity

Resources and accountabilities are aligned to strategy

Speed

Workflows are fast, tech-enabled, and frictionless

Skills

A future-ready workforce is equipped to deliver the highest value

Commitment

The culture is performance-oriented

How it works

Our Organize to Value approach helps diagnose and design your unique operating model “fingerprint” across a system of 12 design elements to deliver the full value potential of the organization’s strategy.

Tech Solutions

Complementary to our knowledge and expertise, we offer data-driven digital solutions to support organization design and effectiveness.

OrgLab

Unlocks hidden insights from human resources data, visualizes design scenarios, and empowers effective decisions as leaders adapt the operating model—structure, processes, and people—to align with business strategy

Organizational Health Index

Applies analytical rigor to organizational health management by offering quantitative diagnostics and proven recipes for success, enabling the factors required to sustain long-term performance

Operating Model Fingerprint

Leverages AI to map operating model choices, identifying an organization’s unique fingerprint and benchmarking against a customized set of aspirational peers

EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK

Transforming for greater agility and resilience

For a leading industrial technology company, a global operating model transformation created a simpler, faster organization that is easier for customers to do business with and delivered a savings pipeline of $160 million.

Reorganizing for sales growth

For a power retailer seeking major revenue growth, a new operating model supported by strategy transformed the sales model, eliminating non-value-added activities and strengthening top management’s role as “super coaches” to the sales team. Profits grew by 25 percent in a year.

Reducing complexity to better serve the customer

A global consumer goods manufacturer eliminated complexity in several regions and functions, halving the time required to make decisions in critical processes. This helped the company bring products to market faster in response to changing customer needs.

Remaking operations for efficiency and savings

At a global consumer goods company, a new CEO reduced the corporate center by 50 percent, redesigned key human resources and finance processes for efficiency, and consolidated fragmented supply chain functions. Savings totaled $500 million over three years.

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