From machine learning operations and organizational change to ethical considerations and emerging use cases, this is QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey’s latest thinking on how organizations can most effectively and responsibly use AI to create business value.
Insights on Artificial Intelligence
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The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
Almost all survey respondents say their organizations are using AI, and many have begun to use AI agents. But most are still in the early stages of scaling AI and capturing enterprise-level value.
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The state of AI in GCC countries: In pursuit of scale and value
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Our latest survey on AI use finds that uptake is growing in the Middle East, but businesses still have ample opportunity to improve adoption, outperform peers, and create value.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Deploying agentic AI with safety and security: A playbook for technology leaders
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Autonomous AI agents present a new world of opportunity—and an array of novel and complex risks and vulnerabilities that require attention and action now.
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The Big Rethink: An agenda for thriving in the agentic age
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CEOs need a new agenda to help them and their organizations navigate the key questions around AI, particularly agentic AI.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The change agent: Goals, decisions, and implications for CEOs in the agentic age
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Companies are feeling agentic AI growing pains. Here’s what CEOs can do to move past them and position their companies to succeed.
Essential Knowledge
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Seizing the agentic AI advantage
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A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents.
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McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
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The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
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Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
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The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
Industry perspectives
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McKinsey helps pioneer an AI-native approach in dispute resolution
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The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) announced the launch of its AI-native arbitrator today, developed in collaboration with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
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Remapping travel with agentic AI
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Agentic AI could upend the travel industry. Travel and hospitality organizations should explore how agentic can help catalyze AI’s transformative potential.
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Reimagining life science enterprises with agentic AI
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Agentic AI is poised to boost the benefits from AI by changing its role from tool to coworker and catalyzing an end-to-end reimagining of the life sciences value chain.
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Empowering advanced industries with agentic AI
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For manufacturers, logistics leaders, and industrial firms, the agentic AI opportunity is no longer theoretical—it’s unfolding in real time.
DATA SCIENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
Insights from our Medium blog by data science professionals, for data science professionals.
QuantumBlack Medium blog post
Unlocking consumable data for generative AI
Enterprises today are racing to adopt generative AI (gen AI) and the intelligent agents that promise transformative efficiency and insight. However, there is a critical dependency on access to trusted, usable data that is structured, labeled, and organized in a way that is easily consumable by gen AI.