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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With gen AI, helping green businesses strengthen our ‘blue economy’
Using generative AI technologies, McKinsey is helping One Ocean Foundation create an accurate picture of how businesses are sustaining our oceans.
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 from day one.
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Generative AI fuels creative physical product design but is no magic wand
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Generative AI tools can shorten physical product design life cycles significantly and spark innovation, but the knowledge and discretion of design experts are necessary to mitigate potential pitfalls.
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Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in tech, media, and telecom
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This collection presents the top insights on gen AI from McKinsey and its AI arm, QuantumBlack, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
Scaling for impact
Survey
The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year
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As organizations rapidly deploy generative AI tools, survey respondents expect significant effects on their industries and workforces.
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Four essential questions for boards to ask about generative AI
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Boards are responsible for how generative AI is used at the companies they oversee. Asking company leaders the right questions will help unlock the technology’s value while managing its risk.
Executive guides
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Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in tech, media, and telecom
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This collection presents the top insights on gen AI from McKinsey and its AI arm, QuantumBlack, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
Article
What every CEO should know about generative AI
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Generative AI is evolving at record speed while CEOs are still learning the technology’s business value and risks. Here, we offer some of the generative AI essentials.
Article
Four essential questions for boards to ask about generative AI
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Boards are responsible for how generative AI is used at the companies they oversee. Asking company leaders the right questions will help unlock the technology’s value while managing its risk.
Industry perspectives
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Generative AI in the pharmaceutical industry: Moving from hype to reality
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The technology could offer pharma companies a once-in-a-century opportunity—but only if they learn to scale it and address the industry’s unique challenges.
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 from day one.
McKinsey Direct
Generative AI in finance: Finding the way to faster, deeper insights
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Generative AI technologies can automate time-consuming tasks for finance professionals, but can they be trusted to give the right answers?
DATA SCIENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
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