McKinsey quote of the day

“Engineers are the hidden enablers of everything that we take for granted in modern life. From turning on the tap, to the smartphones that we check the moment we’ve woken up, to clean energy, to access to medicine, engineers literally design and deliver the physical and digital infrastructure, the services that we rely on every day—even if we are totally oblivious to it.”

Hayaatun Sillem, CEO of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, in a new episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast discussing the enduring power of engineering in a digitizing world