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
Featured Insights
The AI reckoning: How boards can evolve
How can boards best help guide companies through the competitive dynamics unleashed by AI?
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Building the AI muscle of your business leaders
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The real competitive advantage with AI comes from having business leaders who can bridge business problems with the possibilities technology offers.
Survey
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
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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.
Interview
Becoming a tech-savvy leader
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Neesha Hathi, Charles Schwab’s managing director and head of Wealth & Advice Solutions, discusses what it takes to build confidence and credibility with technology.
Article
The evolution of neoclouds and their next moves
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Born out of GPU scarcity, neoclouds now face a harder test: Evolve beyond bare metal or risk repeating Cloud 1.0 history.
Essential Knowledge
Report
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.
Report
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.
Survey
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.
Report
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
Blog Post
How AI could reinvent film and TV production
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AI could transform every stage of the creative production process from script to screen. But it may alter not only how content is made but also who gets to make it.
Blog Post
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, developed in collaboration with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
Article
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.
Article
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.
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.