McKinsey Global Institute: The year's most popular articles

Top Ten | McKinsey Global Institute 2017

The year’s most popular articles from the McKinsey Global Institute

1. Harnessing automation for a future that works

Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. Realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand. More →

2. How artificial intelligence can deliver real value to companies

Companies new to the space can learn a great deal from early adopters who have invested billions into AI and are now beginning to reap a range of benefits. More →

3. What’s now and next in analytics, AI, and automation

Innovations in digitization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation are creating performance and productivity opportunities for business and the economy, even as they reshape employment and the future of work. More →

4. Technology, jobs, and the future of work

Automation, digital platforms, and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work. Understanding these shifts can help policy makers, business leaders, and workers move forward. More →

5. What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages

In an era marked by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, new research assesses the jobs lost and jobs gained under different scenarios through 2030. More →

6. Reinventing construction through a productivity revolution

To transform the sector, action is needed in seven areas or through broader adoption of mass-production approaches. More →

7. How technology is reshaping supply and demand for natural resources

The ways we consume energy and produce commodities are changing. This transformation could benefit the global economy, but resource producers will have to adapt to stay competitive. More →

8. Where companies with a long-term view outperform their peers

McKinsey’s Corporate Horizon Index provides systematic evidence that a long-term approach can lead to superior performance for revenue and earnings, investment, market capitalization, and job creation. More →

9. The new dynamics of financial globalization

Cross-border capital flows have fallen 65 percent since the financial crisis as global banks retrenched, but a more stable form of financial globalization is emerging. More →

10. Digital China: Powering the economy to global competitiveness

China, already a global force in digital technologies, is set to experience huge shifts in revenue and profits as businesses digitize, boosting the economy’s international competitiveness. More →

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