Deep industry and operations expertise is blended to help commercial aerospace and defense agencies with their most pressing challenges. In such a vast and complex industry, safety, innovation, and regulation are crucial — and in between the pressure to innovate and transform while keeping costs down, clients need a partner to help strike the right balance. Kearney helps develop and execute client-specific strategies to achieve immediate impact, competitive advantage, and sustained growth platforms for commercial A&D manufacturers and service providers, defense prime contractors, and subcontractors globally. Government defense organizations are also served to tackle their most complex and mission-critical challenges while delivering unmatched returns on consulting investment.

Kearney partners with automotive clients to design and execute innovative business models that capture new revenue streams and competitive advantage. From achieving world-class operational excellence and aligning strategy with business goals, to navigating the digital economy at a pace that allows for both market-leading innovation and sustained growth. Services span supply chain transformation, sales and brand management strategy, innovation in product-development processes, and helping clients embed digital technologies to boost performance, agility, and profitability across the full automotive value chain.

Kearney helps communications and telecom clients transform their entire business, positioning them to generate better results in financial performance, customer experience, and employee satisfaction. Deep expertise spans helping telcos adapt to a rapidly changing business environment, becoming truly digital organizations, and gaining competitive edge through procurement and supply chain management. A comprehensive set of strategy-development capabilities has helped a variety of telecom companies reach their growth targets, while regulatory trend analysis and proposition design help clients look beyond traditional approaches to find new sources of growth.

Kearney serves the full spectrum of consumer and retail — from agriculture and food, beauty and personal care, and beverages to fashion and luxury, and grocery and retail. Beverage companies turn to Kearney for portfolio strategy, innovation, and resilient growth in a transforming global market, while fashion and luxury leaders are helped to turn disruption into differentiation and sustainable growth. Grocery retailers are equipped to navigate disruption, optimize operations, and deliver distinctive experiences that drive loyalty and long-term value. Across the sector, Kearney brings cutting-edge research through the Kearney Consumer Institute, examining business challenges and opportunities through the eyes of consumers to empower organizations to think and act consumer-first.

Kearney's Energy and Resources practice covers the full breadth of the sector — Chemicals, Metals and Mining, Oil and Gas, and Utilities. For utilities clients, Kearney optimizes and unlocks full generation performance and economics through smarter asset management, digital solutions, and the energy transition, while enhancing grid reliability and flexibility with innovative approaches to transmission and distribution investment and operations. In generation, Kearney supports planning and execution of new projects including solar, wind, gas peakers, and storage, spanning feasibility studies, permitting, EPC strategy, and program management. Decarbonization pathways are developed through repowering, fuel switching, hydrogen integration, carbon capture feasibility, and retirement planning, ensuring clients can balance decarbonization goals, reliability mandates, and financial performance.

Kearney advises financial services clients — spanning banking, insurance, capital markets, and beyond — on their most pressing strategic and operational challenges. The firm brings deep industry knowledge combined with cross-functional expertise to help financial institutions navigate competitive disruption, regulatory change, and digital transformation. From strategy development and operating model redesign to mergers and acquisitions support and procurement excellence, Kearney delivers immediate impact and sustainable competitive advantage for leading financial services organizations worldwide.

Kearney's Healthcare and Life Sciences practice serves the full ecosystem — Biopharma, Healthcare, MedTech, and Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity — helping clients tackle their most complex strategic, operational, and commercial challenges. The practice brings together deep sector expertise with cross-functional capabilities in strategy, operations, procurement, and digital transformation. From navigating regulatory complexity and accelerating drug development pipelines to optimizing health system operations and evaluating medtech market entries, Kearney delivers measurable impact across the life sciences value chain. A dedicated Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity sub-practice provides specialized due diligence and value-creation support for investors in the sector.

With the shift from industrial products to services accelerating across the sector, Kearney helps industrial goods and services companies define their role and capture value in a rapidly evolving landscape. The firm brings deep expertise in operations, supply chain, digital transformation, and go-to-market strategy to industrial manufacturers and service providers. Kearney supports clients across the full spectrum of industrial challenges — from operational excellence and procurement to mergers and acquisitions and organizational transformation — helping them build competitive advantage and sustainable growth platforms in an increasingly complex global market.

Kearney helps private and public-sector leaders worldwide get more value from infrastructure investments and operations. The practice covers the full lifecycle of infrastructure — from strategy, planning, and procurement through to operations, privatization, and public–private partnerships. Deep expertise spans transport infrastructure, social infrastructure, and utilities networks, with capabilities in project delivery, asset management, regulatory strategy, and digital enablement. Kearney helps infrastructure owners, operators, investors, and government clients maximize returns and deliver better outcomes for society.

Whether you're an industry giant or a new player, Kearney provides the insight to navigate media's evolving landscape. Deep expertise is offered in broadcasting, streaming, publishing, advertising, gaming, e-sports, and beyond, working with top media companies, publishers, and telecom firms. Wherever clients stand in the media sector, Kearney helps them make the right moves for lasting success — from portfolio strategy and digital transformation to content monetization, audience growth, and operational efficiency across traditional and emerging media formats.

Kearney has served hundreds of private equity funds since 2022 and over 1,000 portfolio companies since 2020, with 100% of diligences engaging Kearney industry experts. The firm offers end-to-end support across the investment lifecycle — from commercial and operational due diligence through to value creation and exit preparation. Kearney's private equity practice covers business operations, service levels, and cost performance while providing a view of both value protection and near- and long-term value-creation opportunities. ESG assessment, IT landscape review, and digital platform evaluation are integrated into the diligence process to deliver comprehensive, investor-grade insights.

Kearney doesn't shy away from big issues in the public sector — national security, education, health and well-being, law and order, employment, and infrastructure are all in scope. Serving the public means making hard choices every day, and Kearney works with clients across priority programs, driven to make change rather than just talk about it. Results and returns are delivered to make budgets go much further, with a belief that transformation — planned thoroughly and executed right — can be a straightforward undertaking with rich rewards. The practice covers government administration, defense and security, and public safety across central and local government clients worldwide.

Underlying all of the diversity in the technology sector is a basic truth: software has become a primary differentiator between competing products, services, and companies in one industry after another. Kearney understands the unforgiving market dynamics that have given rise to ever-higher degrees of systems integration and the shift from selling products to selling services. Kearney's technology practice serves hardware, software, IT services, and semiconductor clients, helping them navigate competitive disruption, define growth strategies, optimize operations, and capitalize on structural shifts such as AI, cloud, and platform economics. The firm brings cross-industry perspective to help technology companies build sustainable competitive advantage.

Kearney helps transportation companies achieve high levels of maintenance service at the optimal cost by deploying advanced predictive technologies. The practice covers the full spectrum of transportation and travel — from aviation, rail, road, and maritime freight through to urban mobility, hospitality, and tourism. Through the Kearney Advanced Mobility Institute, the firm advances ground-based transportation systems including bus services, taxis, car sharing, and ride hailing, as well as new air mobility technologies such as eVTOL aircraft, micro-mobility, and waterborne transport. Kearney helps clients across the transportation and travel ecosystem navigate disruption, improve operational performance, and capture growth in an era of rapid technological and societal change.

Helps clients harness data, advanced analytics, and digital technologies to drive business performance and competitive advantage. The firm strengthened this capability through the acquisition of Cervello, a business analytics and data management consultancy, enabling deeper expertise in analytics implementation and data-driven decision-making across enterprise clients.

Advises clients across the full M&A lifecycle — from target screening and due diligence to post-merger integration and value capture. The firm provides comprehensive support through all transaction phases, enabling clients to identify strategic targets, conduct rigorous diligence, structure deals, and successfully execute integration to realize synergies and unlock value.

Drives operational improvement and performance excellence across manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations to deliver cost reduction and resilience. Building on decades of heritage strength in operations consulting, the firm helps clients transform production and logistics networks, optimize service delivery, and build agile supply chains that respond to disruption while capturing lasting cost and efficiency gains.

Helps clients design and implement the organizational structures, capabilities, and cultures needed to execute strategy and sustain performance. The firm works with leadership teams to reshape organizations through operating model redesign, capability building, leadership alignment, and cultural transformation — creating the foundations for strategy execution and sustained competitive advantage.

Delivers strategic sourcing, supplier management, and procurement transformation that create lasting cost advantage and supply chain resilience. Recognized as a global leader in strategic sourcing and procurement consulting, the firm applies rigorous category strategies, negotiation frameworks, and supplier optimization programs to unlock sustainable cost savings and strengthen supply chain partnerships. Kearney's Supply Chain Institute provides thought leadership and benchmarking to guide procurement transformation at the highest levels.

Advises C-suites on corporate strategy, growth agendas, market entry, and competitive positioning to drive sustainable value creation. The firm partners with boards and executive teams to define strategic direction, evaluate portfolio and M&A logic, design market entry plays, and position businesses for competitive advantage — translating strategic insights into executable plans that create shareholder value and sustained growth.

Develops and executes sustainability strategies across ESG transformation, net zero, responsible sourcing, circularity, and equitable societies for businesses and governments. As the first management consultancy with Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)-approved net-zero targets, the firm brings credibility and expertise to complex sustainability agendas. Drawing on 300+ sustainability projects delivered in 2023 alone, Kearney helps organizations embed sustainability across strategy, operations, supply chains, and stakeholder communications to create lasting competitive and social value.

Partners with clients to design and deliver large-scale business transformations that reshape operating models, capabilities, and performance trajectories. The firm brings end-to-end transformation expertise — from strategy and design through execution and value realization — helping clients navigate organizational change, technology modernization, process redesign, and capability building to fundamentally improve competitive position and financial performance.

We are a global team of visionaries, builders, and operators who are experts at creating new sources of customer value. From start to scale, our mission is to help you bring customer-centric ideas to life that generate material value and ignite sustainable growth for your business within just 18 months.

We have been building new sources of value since 2015. Prior to 2022, you might have known us as Proposition and Customer Experience (PCE) Labs.

What we do

We help you to ignite your business growth by examining and pursuing commercial challenges and unique opportunities from your customers’ perspective. Then, from the ground up, we build fully operational business concepts often integrated with your business to leverage what you do well.

Ignite’s most impactful engagements focus on launching new businesses that impact the bottom line: sustainably, drawing on the combined power of all three of our customer excellence disciplines—Inspire, Imagine, and Empower—delivered as a fully integrated offering we call Forge

• Forge: Launch new businesses that impact the top and bottom lines, sustainably.
• Inspire: Discover the full potential of your customer value chain, and translate it into concrete commercial opportunities.
• Imagine: Create a winning proposition—differentiated offerings and a signature customer experience that is linked to your organization’s authentic purpose.
• Empower: Make your teams fully capable of continuously delivering customer-inspired innovation and growth.

Our Design Studio is where our proprietary tools, methodologies, and capabilities are nurtured and honed, for use by our people, and yours.

Increase your profits, transform your products, and delight your customers with PERLab’s proprietary design framework.

Do you want a customer who values and relies on your product? When customers begin to see how your product solves their problems and provides a best-in-class experience, brand loyalty is born and profitability soars.

We listen to your customers and create value by enhancing what matters most to them. With experts in product design, product development, sustainability, user experience, industrial design, Internet of Things (IoT), consumer insights, product engineering, packaging design, and manufacturing excellence, PERLab’s end-to-end capabilities can support your growth at any point in your product’s life cycle. By taking a comprehensive look at your product, our design and development consultants unlock profits at all stages of your product’s life.

From PERLab partner to Kearney member

The TEAMS legacy stretches all the way back to 1956, playing a pivotal role in Bosch's first line of power tools. TEAMS is not just a design agency; it’s a pioneering company keen to bring your product ideas to life—redefining business value while pushing the boundaries of physical and digital products.

Product consulting for all stages of a product’s life

Your products have value. You know this, and so do we. Our experts work directly with your cross-functional teams for product value identification and enhance this value for optimized end-to-end product life cycle management—which has been proven to increase profits.

We enhance product margins by lowering production costs through sustainable processes and improving the features your customers crave most.