Construction and its broader ecosystem are changing radically along the entire value chain, accelerated by the global pandemic. We help industry leaders make bold strategic decisions in this dynamic complex environment to accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth, enabled by transformative ideas, effective execution, and deep capability-building.

We work with leading organizations across asset types (such as infrastructure, real estate, and industrial) and industry sub-segments (such as engineering and construction, design and architecture, building material manufacturers and distributors, investors, and construction technology) to help them navigate successfully a complex business environment marked by strong competition, cost pressures, barriers to standardize due to highly localized norms, risk aversion mindset, and low innovation. Our seasoned experts, rigorous analytical capabilities, and cutting-edge assets combined with an unrivaled portfolio of partnerships and acquisitions help us deliver lasting impact for clients and create new growth opportunities.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Commercial transformation

Lead multi-year commercial transformation journeys with tangible impact across the organization including improved win rates, increased delivered margin, targeted portfolios, higher resource efficiency, and more profitable and sustainable growth. Our commercial transformation programs help build and expand the business, including tender office, contracting excellence, and commercial excellence.

Operational transformation

Launch effective operational transformations, resulting in EBITDA margin improvement, minimized cost and time overruns, and increased win rates. Using our proprietary full potential assessment, we define a high-level aspiration and perform a holistic diagnostic analysis across 10 core dimensions to identify value-creation opportunities. In addition, we support our clients in procurement excellence, planning, lean construction, and value engineering.

Digital transformation

Navigate technological disruption and build a successful, sustainable digitally-driven business enabled by innovation (such as process, tools organization, and mindsets), business information modeling, process digitization, agile engineering, and advanced analytics.

Strategy and organization

Understand the right moves to make at the right time and how to drive them to fruition. We help clients stay ahead of the curve and beat the odds by focusing on core long-term strategic priorities such as operating model review, new business model creation, portfolio rebalancing, cash management, sustainability excellence, diversity, and talent of the future.

Helping governments dramatically improve their capacity to deliver for people

Public sector organizations are key to societal and economic progress and well-being. For over 70 years, McKinsey has worked alongside government organizations to improve the lives and livelihoods of their communities, driving transformations that have a significant, positive impact on society. By combining a highly collaborative working model with data-driven insights and leveraging technology solutions to unlock the full potential, we provide an approach tailored to each client’s needs.

Our work spans multiple sectors and functions, including digital and analytics, operations, organization, and strategy. We work end-to-end—from diagnosis to delivery of lasting impact—together generating tangible results that are improving the lives of people worldwide.

How we help clients

Citizen Experience

Collaborate with government agencies to ensure they can deliver an exceptional customer experience through our distinctive user experience (CX) benchmark and insights.

Digital & Analytics

Work with government agencies to achieve even greater potential by using data, analytics, and cutting-edge solutions, including generative AI and Cloud-native tools.

Government Operations & Productivity

Elevate government performance to achieve ambitious program goals and transform operations by deploying a holistic approach across people, processes, and technology.

Reinvesting in Economies

Support government agencies worldwide to deliver sustainable and inclusive economic growth that strengthens local workforce and competitiveness.

Talent & Capabilities

Assist government agencies to become talent-first public service organizations and realize the potential of their workforce in delivering public service excellence.

Private Equity

We help private equity firms make better investment decisions at every stage of the deal life cycle and build greater returns through active management of portfolio companies. We also advise on investment firm strategy and development, creating value through improved performance.

We are the leading advisor to the private equity industry. Our work is driven by the collaboration of partners, advisors, and specialists with a deep understanding of private equity and the intricacies of the investment lifecycle. With over 9,500 consultants working in 107 offices spanning more than 60 countries, our scale and scope bring unparalleled insights across industries, geographies, and operational areas, allowing us to offer a fundamentally different approach to private equity consulting.

What we do

We help private equity firms create greater returns at every stage in the investment cycle and strengthen firm strategy and development.

Investment screening.

Our work with clients in pre-diligence investment screening is varied and tailored to their specific needs. We help identify and qualify investment opportunities by leveraging a systematic process to screen and reveal potential targets and provide proactive, investable insights and thematic ideas. We also offer in-depth, customized workshops, proprietary research, and data access.

Due Diligence Support.

We help clients evaluate the outlook and opportunities around potential acquisitions across all industry sectors and geographies.

• Our Due Diligence client service is always jointly led by a Due Diligence-specialized PE Partner and by a second, industry-specialized Partner (e.g., with deep expertise in TMT, Healthcare, Financial Services, Industrials, Infrastructure, Consumer, Business Services, and Transportation & Logistics, amongst others).
•   Our Due Diligence Support includes both Commercial Due Diligence and Value Creation (Operational) Due Diligence, including Commercial Excellence, Pricing, & Cost (Mfg., Procurement, Labor Productivity) levers.

Our global Due Diligence support team can be reached at PE_Diligence_Support@McKinsey.com for more information.

Portfolio development.

We help clients develop and execute aggressive, targeted plans of action for the first 100 days post-closing to capture near-term opportunities and ensure the success of their investment. Beyond the first 100 days, our support is focused on near-medium-term improvement models, developed with an exit strategy in mind and aimed at transforming the performance of portfolio companies in high-impact areas. Portfolio projects are customized, with scale and timing driven by client needs. Our services range from rapid assessments of portfolio company business capabilities to comprehensive turnaround of performance and redesigning processes, operations, and products from the ground up.

Exit (sell-side) Planning and Support.

We partner with sponsors and portfolio companies at different stages of the holding period to prepare them for a successful Exit in three primary ways:

• Strategy Refresh and/or Value Creation Sprints: We help clients maximize value at Exit by refreshing their strategy and/or identifying/realizing broader value creation opportunities (e.g., margin improvement), prioritizing opportunities that will be most value-accretive.
• IPO Readiness: We support clients preparing for a potential IPO through readiness assessments and additional support throughout the process.
• Market Study (‘Vendor Due Diligence’): We develop market studies to help our portfolio clients articulate their business model, explain their industry dynamics and competitive positioning, and outline their growth and value creation potential to internal stakeholders and financial and strategic buyers.

Our global Exit support team can be reached at Exit_Support@McKinsey.com for more information.

Firm strategy and development.

Combining deep insights on global macroeconomic trends with proprietary research on market trends, we help clients make strategic choices to increase fund and firm performance, including how to establish competitive positioning, how to adapt investment processes, how to settle on an investment strategy, and how to evolve their governance structure. We also support operational improvement, including risk management and business support capabilities.

RTS.

For especially challenging cases, including distressed companies and underperforming business units, we call on RTS's expertise. This special unit focuses exclusively on radical and sustained performance improvement in all industries and geographies and has a robust track record of high-impact turnarounds focused on generating value.

McKinsey Implementation.

Our clients have access to McKinsey Implementation services and specialist teams that are available to work side-by-side with portfolio companies, offering tailored support to help accelerate the execution of recommendations and improvement plans. McKinsey Implementation teams work across industries and geographies on various projects, helping companies achieve rapid, significant, and measurable bottom-line results.

Institutional investors

We serve institutional investors worldwide on multiple fronts, including corporate strategy and governance, investment strategy and value creation, due diligence and portfolio work, improving and establishing support capabilities, and organizational change management.

Overseeing massive funds with complex structures, institutional investors must execute successful investment strategies while simultaneously engaging with the public whose interests they represent. Our leadership team, dedicated industry experts, and senior advisors understand the unique challenges that institutional investors face and work together to develop innovative solutions and help create lasting impact.

The aerospace and defense (A&D) industry is facing numerous challenges linked to an unforeseen pandemic, rapidly evolving technologies, and vulnerable supply chains. We help our clients push the boundaries in air and space and safeguard livelihoods through capabilities, technologies, and talent.

Our approach combines a deep understanding of industry dynamics with advanced analytics and an unparalleled network of experts. We work with clients to build internal capabilities, adopt digital and analytics tools, and transform work processes to improve their business in substantial, sustainable ways.

We accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth and deliver transformational impact for food and agriculture companies and organizations by driving efficiencies, fueling growth, shaping industries, and increasing organizational effectiveness. Our proprietary tools and digital and advanced analytics capabilities, combined with extensive experience are the cornerstones of the value we bring to our clients.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Agriculture Development & Food Security

We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.

Digital

We combine the power of our deep-domain expertise in agriculture with thousands of developers, engineers, data architects, and scientists across the technology spectrum.

Investment

We combine leading-edge investor insights honed by our private equity experts with agriculture-market insights and proprietary tools to help clients with their range of needs.

Marketing & Sales

Achieve commercial excellence through go-to-market strategy, pricing optimization, and sales execution.

Operations

We help clients improve efficiency and innovate for the future to produce quality products in a competitive way.

Organization

We help agriculture companies achieve the transformational change required to get ahead of shifting global consumer demand, evolving agricultural trends, and digital disruptions.

Strategy

We help agriculture companies navigate a future of uncertainty, stemming from evolving commodity markets, climate change, and the rise of digitization as a disruptive force.

Transformation

We create sustainable change for clients by combining proprietary tools and techniques with unmatched industry knowledge.

We work with original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and parts and service suppliers across all sectors of the automotive industry, from passenger-car and light-truck manufacturers to heavy-truck makers and to agricultural and construction-equipment companies.

Our work involves strategic and corporate finance topics ranging from products and branding to mergers-and-acquisitions strategies. We also focus on operational topics ranging from project management to product launch and from lean manufacturing and production to supplier management and value-chain cost reduction. Regardless of the specific challenge, our overriding goal is to provide clients with improved productivity, enhanced innovation, and better performance.

In addition, we engage in internal research projects—often in cooperation with leading industry associations. Recent examples include developing insights on technological disruptions through our McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (in areas such as autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility), investigating how automotive suppliers can benefit from arising opportunities in the aftermarket business, or quantifying major trends that will drive the global truck profit pools of the future.

We supplement our knowledge with input from research partners, creating a network of capable resources available to clients. Our research partners include the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Technical University of Aachen in Europe, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and MIT's Sloan School in the United States, and Beijing's Tsinghua University in Asia. Depending on the nature of different engagements, these and other resources are brought to bear to help solve client problems efficiently and effectively.

What we do

Our expertise and global scale allow us to bring a fundamentally different approach to serving clients in the automotive-and-assembly business. We have an unparalleled track record of delivering client impact across a wide range of topics. We can address strategic challenges, such as developing growth strategies or go-to-market strategies, but we also have expertise in portfolio strategy, sales excellence and large-scale transformation programs. Our operations expertise extends from capital productivity to product-development processes and R&D efficiency. Change management, post-merger integration, and sales-channel management—all in the automotive and machinery context—are other core specialties.

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Automotive Suppliers

We help clients improve productivity, strengthen innovation, and compete globally in a variety of markets.

The changes currently taking place in the automotive-supplier industry from the need to go global to the emergence of new competitors in low-cost countries have increased business uncertainties and turned decision-making that used to be straightforward into a much more complicated process.

From new lighting technologies to breakthrough powertrain solutions, suppliers manage the frontlines in an attempt to find superior solutions for their OEM customers. They're also responsible for roughly 70 percent of the industry's costs, placing them front and center in the continuing effort to boost productivity.

We help supplier companies in all the steps of the value chain. Our projects range from growth strategies and business-plan development to R&D topics such as material-cost optimization and supply-chain optimization, as well as sales and aftermarket processes. We help clients reduce capital intensity, optimize and standardize their specifications, and refine their approach to innovation and R&D investment. We also have perspectives on globalizing and localizing products, talent management, and corporate finance topics.

With dozens of dedicated consultants and experts around the world, we can address any question a supplier may have. In addition, we work with regional industry groups to maintain a cutting-edge perspective on the issues that matter most. And we invest in knowledge development to address key industry concerns. We apply a holistic view of the industry, assess aftermarket trends, and project potential scenarios for post-sales business.

Examples of our work

We helped an automotive supplier implement value-based pricing in its key product categories.

We worked with a supplier to devise a strategy to profitably tap the booming car market in China.

By applying best-practice material-cost-optimization tools and approaches across electronic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical components, we helped various leading tier-one automotive suppliers gain savings in the range of 15 percent or more.

We assisted a global tier-one supplier with defining a non-automotive growth strategy.

We helped identify and target specific opportunities for a supplier in the electric vehicle market.

Commercial Vehicles

We help commercial vehicle manufacturers serve markets around the world, tailor products to local requirements, and develop global production networks that can adapt to change.

The truck industry is global, and automotive OEMs strive to master a host of unique challenges. We help them succeed and enter new markets. Aside from questions of which markets to enter, manufacturers must also decide on the level of customization and localization that will be offered on products in each market. We help design platform strategies, modularization strategies, market-entry strategies, and flexible business models that reduce uncertainty and position truck makers and bus companies for success.

Another challenge for OEMs is innovating powertrain technologies so that heavy vehicles comply with tightening emissions standards around the world. We have expertise in both the R&D strategies and technologies that empower product evolution.

Given the highly cyclical nature of sales in the heavy-vehicle market, companies also seek alternative sources of revenue. We help design value-added services strategies and advanced business models that move companies beyond the volatility of the business cycle. We can also help define joint-venture strategies for markets where that is a requirement for entry.

With more than 300 consultants whose expertise ranges from mechanical engineering to production planning and product design in the heavy-vehicles market, and with local experts on the regulatory and business climates of specific markets, we can address any concern a truck or bus company might have. We also have proprietary tools, such as our annually updated global-profit-pool model for the truck market or our granular understanding of the economics behind alternative powertrains for the bus market in Europe.

Examples of our work:

We helped a global truck manufacturer develop an entry strategy for the Indian market, one of the fastest-growing truck markets.

We worked with another manufacturer to develop and implement a modular strategy for its truck-platform architectures, helping to capture scale effects in the global product lineup.

We conducted a large-scale performance-improvement program that focused on material optimizing, material costs, R&D efficiency, and production footprint. This led to an improvement in earnings before interest and taxes of 3 percentage points.

Emerging Markets

We help OEMs, suppliers, and related companies deal with the complexity of entering and operating in emerging markets around the globe.

Over the last 10 years, automotive sales in emerging markets, such as China, India, and Brazil, have proved not only resilient but also, until recently, more robust than many experts would have predicted. China, for example, is the largest market as measured by vehicle sales, and—until 2015—it has also been the fastest-growing market in the world. Along with the sales increases comes a rapidly changing market landscape and evolving consumer demands.

As a global firm with dedicated local auto experts, we have helped clients in several areas:

Constructing a winning 10-year growth strategy

developing a compelling China-specific car portfolio via localization and China R&D

implementing stringent quality-improvement processes

driving a multi-year frontline sales transformation to improve customer satisfaction and sales performance

China

In the coming decade, the majority of the growth in the Chinese market will come from lower-tier cities. Consumer patterns also differ across regional clusters; we help clients improve their consumer-insight capabilities, innovate their digital marketing tools, and systematically grow and optimize their dealer network.

India

In India, the challenges are quite different. The subcontinent pioneered the concept of ultra-low-cost cars, and the low-cost customer segment remains a hearty subset of the burgeoning auto marketplace there. Small cars form more than 75 percent of the total market. We help clients localize products, redesign supply chains, and adjust pricing to meet that demand.

Other global trends, such as electric vehicles (EVs), take on a different character in India: the focus there is on two-wheeled, not four-wheeled vehicles and lower excise taxes are boosting this growing market. However, with excise duties of 4 percent on EVs compared with 10- to 22 percent on conventional cars, there is also real potential for cycles, cars, and trucks in India’s growing EV market. We help automakers enter this market with the right products aimed at the most appealing customer segments.

Brazil

In a market like Brazil, localization is key due to both legislation and consumers’ requiring “tropicalized” products, with a good mix of quality and price. Our design-to-value work helps companies optimize cost/value tradeoffs and achieve attractive profit margins.

Questions of where to play in Brazil are also important; some cities there are seeing faster growth in auto sales than their peers in China, whereas others are experiencing auto-sales growth that is slower than in major European cities. With local market expertise and international experience, we can help automotive companies identify pockets of growth, build a stronghold in those areas, and tap into the vast potential in the developing world.

Machinery

We work with leading international machinery companies to make distinctive, lasting, and substantial performance improvements.

The machinery industry is quite diverse and fragmented, and many of our clients face similar challenges. They typically operate in the lower-volume business-to-business market, yet maintain a truly global footprint. As they target high-growth markets around the world, they are facing a new wave of competition from emerging-market countries, and they need agile business and operational models to manage the volatility in market demand.

To effectively serve our clients, we have built a committed group of experts focused purely on machinery topics. For example, to help these companies deepen their core competencies of great engineering and design of distinctive products, we work with them to develop finely tuned strategies and detailed customer insights.

Many of our insights have been drawn from high-volume industries, but we have customized each to the environment and the challenges faced by machinery clients. We blend this industry perspective with time-tested business acumen to deliver superior results.

Examples of our work

We helped a global packaging-machinery player decrease total product cost by 20 percent by optimizing their product and installation processes.

We helped develop a multi-brand platform- and module strategy for an off-highway-equipment OEM, leading to 7 percentage points of improvement in structured earnings before interest and taxes.

We worked with a leading company that produced highly engineered and customized products to reduce project complexity, improving cost competitiveness and cutting development time by 30 percent.

We installed a “supply chain control tower” to create a fast and efficient supply chain as a competitive advantage in the elevator industry, helping a company to reduce work in progress by more than 50 percent.

We helped an agricultural player build capabilities and IT systems for sustainable implementation, allowing them to improve strategic and transactional pricing, resulting in 3 percentage points in pricing impact.

We worked with a leading global machinery OEM to develop an aftermarket-and-parts growth strategy, covering both mature and developing markets.

Helping chemical companies optimize operations, improve performance, and identify growth opportunities.

Powerful forces are reshaping the chemicals industry, and as a result, the formula for success in its markets. In response to the global economic slowdown, volatile energy prices, and a general economic shift toward the east, new chemicals players must build capabilities and incumbents must sharpen their value propositions—and players across the industry must expand into new products and geographies. Our industry experience and global reach make us uniquely positioned to help our clients address these evolving challenges—and capture new opportunities.

McKinsey's Chemicals Practice is a global network of chemical experts and practitioners. At any point in time, approximately 250 consultants are involved in chemicals-related client projects. In the past five years alone, our Chemicals Practice has supported clients across the world on more than 1,000 tactical and strategic projects.

We have served the majority of global leaders in the chemicals industry, as well as midsized organizations, start-ups, and leading private equity companies. We have a global perspective on the chemicals industry's challenges and opportunities—and how they differ in emerging and mature markets. We offer strategic advice on topics across the value chain, including corporate and business-unit strategy, organization, post-merger management, growth, innovation, performance management, and all aspects of operational improvement.

We combine our experience in functional topics with our expertise in the following materials:

• basic inorganic chemicals such as olefins, aromatics, and chlor-alkali
• polymers, including thermoplastics, elastomers, and synthetic fibers
• specialty and formulated chemicals, including pharmaceutical and food ingredients, electronic chemicals, water-treatment chemicals, and adhesives and sealants
• advanced materials such as composites and ceramics
• agricultural inputs such as crop protection, fertilizers, and seeds; as well as products along the entire agriculture value chain
• cement

Our global team of knowledge professionals has access to a variety of resources, ranging from high-level market forecasts to detailed information about specific chemical products. We also invest heavily in developing state-of-the-art tools that help our clients get the insights they need to operate more successfully. For example:

• part of our suite of proprietary benchmarking tools, Innomatics helps clients compare their innovation performance against their peers, while M&S Matics benchmarks their marketing and sales function
• Periscope, one of the many tools we use to help clients increase their profitability, works to create better pricing
• our proprietary segment databases contain up-to-date product and market information on a wide range of chemical segments, from bio-based chemicals to micro-markets in the cement industry

Covering the full spectrum of global financial services

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

• Banking Risk & Resilience
• Corporate & Investment Banking
• Financial Data, Infrastructure & Technology
• Insurance
• Law Firms & Professional Services
• Marketing & Sales
• Operations & Technology
• Organization
• Payments
• Retail & Small Business Banking
• Strategy & Corporate Finance
• Wealth & Asset Management

Meet the consumer moment today to drive CPG growth tomorrow

Today’s consumers expect more. They care about great products and great value. They’re tech-savvy. They want more from both new and beloved brands.

The industry needs a new approach to capture their imagination and loyalty.

We partner with companies across the consumer goods value chain to meet evolving consumer demand and expectations, turning industry disruptions into new growth paths.

This starts with real-time and actionable consumer insights, backed by proprietary data and AI. We build our clients’ capabilities, strengthening their operations and developing their teams.

Together, we’re scaling new businesses and launching sustainable products. From design to implementation, we’re innovating with omnichannel, DTC, and live commerce. Delivering global reach and local relevance.

How we help clients

On-demand consumer insights

We uncover deep insights on what matters most: who’s driving category growth, where they're spending, and how their behaviors will trend. We provide granularity by geography, demographic, and sub-industry to quickly move clients from insight to action.

Accelerating paths to growth

We help clients activate the full range of growth levers, including expanding the core business, innovating into adjacencies, and igniting breakout businesses. We develop the capabilities and ecosystem to drive sustainable and profitable growth faster.

Maximizing revenue potential

We collaborate with CPG clients to shape their commercial strategy across portfolios, categories, and brands. Powered by advanced analytics, we help inform better products, more effective pricing, optimized marketing activities, improved promotions, and more innovative shelf investments.

Delivering value with marketing

We innovate with CPG clients to deliver best-in-tech marketing that drives brand building and loyalty. We upgrade core technology and implement digital capabilities to effectively engage consumers where they are, from direct-to-consumer to the Metaverse.

We are reimagining retail to raise the bar on customer experience and drive profitable growth.

Retail today is all about disruption. As the industry navigates a new reality, we partner with retailers to meet this moment head-on.

In an omnichannel world where data comes in from all sides, we help retailers apply it to turbocharge every aspect of their business, from assortment and pricing to supply chain and hiring.

As consumers change, we understand them like no one else—what matters to them, their shopping habits, and why they buy. We partner with retailers to reorient their business to meet consumer demand.

We’re using AI and advanced analytics to reimagine personalization, customer journeys, and environmental sustainability. We’re all about our clients’ capabilities – strengthening their technology, processes, and talent for quick and long-term wins.   

How We Help Clients

On-demand consumer insights

We uncover deep insights on what matters most: who's driving category growth, where they're spending, and how their behaviors will trend. We provide granularity by geography, demographic, and sub-industry to quickly move clients from insight to action.

Accelerating paths to growth

We help clients activate the full range of growth levers, including expanding the core business, innovating into adjacencies, and igniting breakout businesses. We develop the capabilities and ecosystem to drive sustainable and profitable growth faster.

Maximizing revenue potential

We partner with retailers to enhance their commercial offerings for today’s omnichannel environment. We design and implement programs through advanced analytics, from merchandising, pricing, promotions, and assortment to positioning and product branding.

Enhance the consumer experience.

We equip retailers to deliver personalized and seamless omnichannel experiences. Together, we design, build, and scale the digital and physical infrastructure to engage consumers wherever they roam – from in-store and marketplaces to live commerce and the Metaverse.

We help traditional utilities, renewable groups, and new entrants including start-ups, developers, oil majors, and power-generation companies accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth throughout the energy transition process by using digitization, automation, and AI to achieve lasting value and stay ahead of consumer trends and market dynamics.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

• Capital Projects
• Corporate Transformation
• Customer
• Digital & Advanced Analytics
• McKinsey Offshore Wind
• Midstream & Downstream Natural Gas
• Nuclear Energy Services
• Procurement & Supply Management
• Renewable Energy & New Downstream
• Strategy & Risk
• Thermal Power Generation
• Transmission & Distribution
• Water & Waste

McKinsey’s focus is on improving education and employment outcomes for all to create a more prosperous society with equal opportunity and enabling new research that builds stronger communities and improves the environment.

McKinsey is committed to improving lifelong learning opportunities and outcomes around the globe by collaborating with clients on their top-of-mind issues while always keeping equity at the forefront. Our teams include former teachers, institutional leaders, policymakers, and researchers with deep expertise across all levels of education from early childhood and K-12 to higher education and workforce development.

We serve education institutions and systems, governments, philanthropists, investors, service providers, and vocational training providers, complementing our hands-on work with original research to allow us to better understand the sector’s toughest challenges, and build new capabilities to help solve them.

How we help clients

Early childhood education and K-12 school systems

We strengthen early childhood, primary, and secondary school systems, and institutions to improve learning and child well-being and achieve rapid improvements in learning outcomes and equity.

Higher education

We help higher education stakeholders reimagine the future by designing and implementing strategies that improve student outcomes, enable more and better research, enhance operational and administrative performance, and ensure financial sustainability.

Workforce development

We prepare people for the future of work by designing, improving, and transforming workforce development systems. We prioritize equity, inclusion, and the elevation of underserved communities.

Investors, philanthropists, and service and technology providers

We work with companies and investors, applying innovative support services and digital tools that strengthen teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom, which increases the overall effectiveness of school systems and higher-education entities.

Enabling clients to cultivate greater economic and societal returns in the built environment

Real estate is fundamental to the human experience. It’s where the world spends 90 percent of its time living, working, shopping, and playing. But society’s needs, expectations, and wants of real estate have permanently evolved, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and increasing economic uncertainty.

McKinsey’s Real Estate Practice works with investors, property owners, real estate managers, and the world’s leading organizations who are the primary occupiers and users of space to lean into these disruptions and accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth that benefits the businesses, environments, and communities they serve.

With proprietary technology, global scale, and local expertise, we are uniquely equipped to embolden clients to embrace disruption, pioneer innovation, and shape a new future for themselves and for the industry.

Packaging

McKinsey serves the world’s largest packaging players across every region and substrate. We help both public and privately held companies shape strategy, transform operational performance, build agile organizations, and maximize the success of their M&A activity.

Pulp and Paper

We serve the world’s major pulp and paper companies across all regions and functions, helping them navigate a volatile world and deliver outstanding performance.

What we do

Holistic transformation

We help our clients take a holistic approach to transformation by setting bold aspirations, defining full potential across both portfolio and performance, co-creating a comprehensive and bottoms-up portfolio of initiatives, outlining a clear roadmap to value, and coaching clients through end-to-end implementation.

Operations

Through applying and training our clients on the best in LEAN methodology, we focus on capability building, process improvement, and technology to drive steady and sustained improvement in mindsets, behaviors, and performance while enabling standardization.

DnA impact

Our offer focuses on tech-enabled manufacturing process optimization. We help clients increase the productivity and sustainability of their facilities through a combination of technology and analytics, deep domain expertise, change management, and capability-building assets. We strengthen each layer of the automation pyramid, including setpoint advisory, process controls, and technical de-bottlenecking.

Sustainability

We help build strategies for a more sustainable future in packaging and paper products, covering decarbonization, circularity, and business building. By mapping all stakeholders across the value chain, we have created a holistic framework to assess true sustainability and continue developing granular perspectives on the core trade-offs to achieve sustainability.

Procurement and supply chain

In a time of rapid innovation in the packaging and paper industry, we help clients leverage the broader supply ecosystem to drive process and product development and gain maximum impact from supplier relationships. We use advanced programs to create integrated product and service life cycles. Our innovative methodology to optimize packaging and paper products shifts the focus from design-to-cost to design-to-value and growth by design.

Commercial and growth

Using an analytical and fact-based approach, we help clients understand where and how to win. Our proven methodology for delivering commercial excellence puts our clients on a distinctive trajectory and builds their capabilities for sustained growth and success.

Private Equity

We are the leading advisor to the private equity industry, bringing deep paper and packaging industry knowledge to help private equity firms make better investment decisions and build greater returns through active management of portfolio companies. We help private equity firms create greater returns at every stage in the investment cycle with services including investment screening, due diligence, portfolio development, exit support, firm strategy and development, transformation, and implementation.

Growth through new technologies.

How we help clients

• Building Technologies
• Industrial Distribution
• Machinery
• Power Equipment
• Robotics and Industrial Automation

McKinsey helps private and public healthcare leaders make healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible for millions of people around the world.

Identifying innovative ways to address healthcare value and affordability

Healthcare improvements have dramatically increased life expectancy, and new treatments are improving quality of life for many populations. Yet with this progress comes daunting economic challenges. For at least 40 years, healthcare spending in the United States has outpaced GDP growth. We work with private and public healthcare leaders to identify innovative ways to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges and improve the productivity and quality of healthcare delivery.

Helping clients accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth across the life sciences industries

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Medtech

Bringing cutting edge capabilities in design, digital and analytics to create innovative products, devices, equipment, software, and solutions that enhance patient value and outcomes.

Generics and Biosimilars

Helping companies capture opportunities across the value chain for generics, branded generics, established products and biosimilars, and forging connections among industry stakeholders.

Medical Affairs

Helping clients to transform their medical affairs function into the company’s third strategic pillar alongside R&D and commercial.

Operations

Using our operations expertise to drive performance, increase revenue, and enhance the bottom line.

Research & Development

Helping clients build the R&D capabilities needed to drive innovation, improve productivity and performance, and develop successful portfolio and asset strategies.

Commercial

Helping clients maximize commercial value by assisting with product launch, marketing, sales, and market access.

Biotech

Helping biotech companies across the entire value chain, from early-stage companies getting initial funding to established companies launching into international markets.

Digital Health and Health tech

Helping health tech businesses across the entire value chain, from start-ups in the initial stages of fundraising to established companies, expand into global markets.

We help metals and mining companies accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth by leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to shape their strategy, boost productivity, and drive innovation.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Metals

McKinsey serves most of the world’s largest metals players, across every region. We help them shape strategy, transform operational performance, and build agile organizations.

Mining

We serve two-thirds of the world’s top 25 mining companies, across all regions and functions—helping them navigate a volatile world and deliver outstanding performance.

Capital Equipment Manufacturers

We help clients stay ahead of technology trends, acquire intellectual property, and manage time-to-market challenges.

We help capital equipment companies stay at the forefront of modern semiconductor technology. Whether it’s keeping up with the pace of Moore’s Law via the latest innovations in lithography, etching, or new mask sets, or navigating the cyclical nature of the sector, we address these challenges and define technology strategies that bring the future into sharp focus. We use our cross-industry supply-chain expertise to help navigate the sector’s ever-larger and more complex supply chains. In addition, we have perspectives on the future of 450-millimeter wafers, which will require the design of a whole new generation of equipment.

In helping clients address these challenges, we have proven methodologies for improving R&D processes and decreasing time-to-market metrics by 15 to 30 percent. At the same time, we help capital equipment manufacturers improve their predictability and reduce cycle times for specific tools on the shop floor. On the cost side of the ledger, leveraging design-to-value techniques, clean-sheet analyses, and other methods, we typically help clients reduce material costs by 15 percent or more.

In terms of organizational challenges, we help clients discover the root causes of past failures and then address these issues via changes in organizational structures and re-engineered processes. We also help capital equipment manufacturers improve overall performance by transforming them from older manufacturing techniques to a modern performance culture.

This area draws on the Semiconductor Practice’s roster of more than 300 consultants, many of whom worked for semiconductor companies before joining McKinsey. The rest have advanced degrees in mathematics, engineering, and physics, which give them deep insights into all steps of the semiconductor value chain.

Electronic Design & Assembly

We help clients capture growth opportunities in the electronics supply chain, while strategically managing their costs and production footprint.

The industrial & electronics value chain is under intense pricing pressure, as customers push to lower end-market prices and increase market penetration. However, material, labor, and other operating costs continue to rise. With their core business generating slimmer margins, many original design manufacturers (ODMs) and component manufacturers are in search of new platforms to achieve growth targets. To create long-term value, we help these companies strike the right balance between core business performance and innovation at scale.

Our Industrial & Electronics Practice supports electronic component manufacturers and distributors, ODMs, and electronics manufacturing service (EMS) firms. Our global team of over 250 consultants combines deep technical knowledge with proven business expertise across the value chain. We advise clients on topics such as growth strategy, innovation, portfolio strategy and diversification, mergers and acquisitions, design to value, pricing, manufacturing excellence, purchasing and supply chain management, operational excellence, and performance and talent management.

Throughout a client project, we work closely with experts in related practices, such as Semiconductors, High Tech, and Telecom, Operations, and Corporate Finance. By collaborating with our Operations practice on design-to-value efforts, for example, we ensure clients meet their customers’ most important requirements and realize maximum value as efficiently as possible.

Electronic Materials

We work with clients to adapt their business and operating systems, pursue innovation, and capture value through strategic marketing and pricing.

The makers of electronic materials must navigate several challenges, including a capital-intensive industry in which R&D requirements are significant, and technology life cycles are brief. We can help.

Our Industrials & Electronics Practice supports electronic device makers; silicon, wafer, glass, and other electronic materials providers; and subassembly and component suppliers of liquid-crystal display panels, LEDs, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells and modules. Our global team of over 75 consultants combines deep technical knowledge with proven business expertise across the value chain. We advise clients on topics such as: operational benchmarking and performance improvement, energy efficiency and green manufacturing, innovation, market entry strategy, end-market demand, pricing, sales productivity and key account management, and organization and performance management.

Throughout a client project, we work closely with experts in related practices, such as Semiconductors, Operations, and Corporate Finance. By collaborating with our Sustainability Practice on green manufacturing efforts, for example, we ensure clients bring cutting-edge facilities and equipment management practices to their factories. Likewise, by collaborating with our Consumer and Marketing practices, we develop fresh marketing and ingredient branding strategies to help clients capture the full value of their innovations.

Fabless

We help clients decide how to approach the marketplace, invest in intellectual property, and think about branding.

Fabless players have a special set of challenges to address, beyond reference designs and relationships with foundries. These include developing efficient manufacturing strategies, sharp brand positioning, and targeted investment strategies.

We help fabless clients address several key challenges. First, the go-to-market concerns: where to play and how to play. Second, we advise on operational topics such as pricing and procurement, as well as negotiations with suppliers and subcontractors. The third challenge covers setting long-term strategy, such as rethinking approaches to customers and suppliers given the ongoing evolution of the fabless/foundry model.

In the years ahead, fabless-semiconductor companies will also need to improve R&D productivity and profitability—as both their supplier and customer bases continue to consolidate. In addition to these challenges, we also help them to better monetize the software embedded in their chip designs.

With a group of more than 300 practitioners, we can offer clients a deep pool of sector-specific expertise. In fact, many of our consultants worked in the semiconductor industry before joining McKinsey. The balance has advanced degrees in mathematics, engineering, and physics. As a group, they understand all phases of the semiconductor market, as well as the suppliers and customers that semiconductor companies buy from and sell to.

Foundry

We help clients improve productivity, optimize new product introductions, and keep pace with Moore’s Law.

The foundry landscape is a diverse segment of the semiconductor value chain. Some are global giants, with billions of dollars in annual revenue, while others focus on narrower specialty products, such as automotive chip sets or the processors that run consumer-electronics products.

All foundries struggle with cost-effective manufacturing at the edge of what is physically possible. The massive complexity of modern semiconductors makes it a constant challenge to keep cost, quality, and manufacturing cycle times in line.

We help foundries reconfigure fab-floor processes to increase throughput and reduce cycle times. We go beyond lean methodologies and work with our clients to address the real sources of waste: complexity and variability on the fab floor. Another key part of our work is crafting new product introductions that maximize impact, including ramping up production to meet demand in the crucial first months in the marketplace.

Our specialists blend hands-on technical expertise drawn from work on fab floors with rigorous business training. Through additional resources, such as our perspective on the future of Moore’s Law or the proprietary current and near-term business climate index for the semiconductor industry, we can offer clients unmatched insights for overcoming any challenge a foundry may face.

Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs)

We help clients reduce costs, run efficient manufacturing plants, and develop sharp go-to-market strategies.

Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) need to conduct efficient and high-value R&D and identify the most promising pockets of market growth. At the same time, they need to contain manufacturing costs. Our specialists blend deep technical expertise with rigorous business training and help IDMs find the right balance.

We help IDMs in several areas: optimizing R&D efforts, restructuring budgeting processes, increasing the efficiency of manufacturing facilities, improving time-to-market of product development, and defining M&A strategies for an era of industry consolidation. We also develop growth strategies that help clients identify meaningful pockets of opportunity outside their core markets.

The industry segment being served by IDMs is quite fragmented, which makes it more complicated to identify the best sales channels. As a result, we assist several IDM clients with sales strategies and go-to-market strategies, for both developed markets and rapidly developing markets, such as China, where the channel mix can be quite different than it would be in Europe or North America.

By definition, IDMs own their own R&D and production assets, so people strategies and operational excellence in manufacturing are also frequent challenges.

Technology, media, and telecommunications companies are at the heart of the digital economy—building the infrastructure and devices that connect people, businesses, and countries. Companies across these industries generate more economic profit than any other sector of the global economy, yet they are not shielded from the disruptions that they create.

We help technology, media, and telecommunications leaders accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth in this rapidly developing market—to build internal capabilities, integrate digital and analytics tools into their organizations, and transform how they work to improve their business in substantial, sustainable ways.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Consumer Technology & Media

Powering consumer growth and disruption

Telecommunications Operators

Integrating new tools and technologies to improve business outcomes

Enterprise Software

Accelerating growth amid a shifting industry landscape

Digital IT Services

Driving growth and competitiveness in the digital era

Technology Infrastructure

Attaining growth amid unprecedented disruption

Start-ups & Venture Capital

Accelerating the next generation of innovators

We help industry leaders accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth, focusing on long-term sustainability that safeguards the connections we rely on most.

The global economy depends on connection – fluid channels through which people and goods move across skies, roads, rails, oceans, and waterways with speed, safety, and efficiency. The growing sophistication and complexity of the travel, logistics, and infrastructure sectors has helped to fuel global economic growth, but it has also revealed vulnerabilities.

Industry leaders today face unprecedented challenges brought on by rapidly evolving technologies, an unforeseen pandemic, and an increased responsibility to keep our vital supply chains operational. We bring a deep understanding of how the travel, logistics, and infrastructure sectors work, and our extensive experience, advanced analytics, and unparalleled network of experts gives us a unique ability to turn threats into opportunities.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Travel

Developing sustainable global strategies for the journey ahead

Logistics

Optimizing global supply chains

Infrastructure

Building the future of mobility and connectivity

Helping leading institutions identify solutions to major societal challenges and improve the health, lives, and livelihoods of people around the world

We believe that social sector organizations are key to solving many societal and economic challenges impacting the well-being of people around the world. We support them by providing end-to-end solutions—from diagnosis through on-the-ground delivery of actions that have lasting impact.

We convene global leaders and create collaborative partnerships tailored to each client and project. Our approach is informed by insights from our globally recognized research centers and fueled by our expertise across domains such as technology enablement, data and analytics, operations, organization, and strategy.

What we do

Philanthropy

We work to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of philanthropy by helping private and corporate foundations, family offices, philanthropic LLCs, and high-net-worth individuals achieve their impact goals.

Public Health

We work with the public, private, and social sectors to address the most urgent public health challenges, offering solutions that improve population health around the world. Partnering with foundations, governments, international organizations, and healthcare companies, we are focused on prioritizing access to equitable, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare for the poorest and most vulnerable populations.

Nonprofits

We help nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) scale their operations, deepen their impact, create new offerings, and ensure their long-term financial sustainability.

Development Partners by McKinsey

We support agencies at both a global and regional level, partnering with local experts to provide strategic and technical support locally, helping them meet their development goals across multiple sectors including education, finance, public health, and sustainability.

ESG

We collaborate with clients leading a wave of innovation and economic growth through a range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities that safeguard our planet, support social impact for employees, customers, and communities, and build a governance structure that ensures rights and responsibilities while advancing sustainability.

Learn more

McKinsey Digital drives transformation and builds businesses by bringing together the capabilities needed to help organizations grow and thrive in the digital age. We help our clients harness the power of data and artificial intelligence, modernize core technology and capitalize on new technology, optimize and automate operations, fuel digital growth, create stunning digital experiences, and build digital talent and culture.

What we offer

Helping our clients outcompete with technology

McKinsey Digital brings together teams of experts in technology, strategy, and industry, plus a global network of partners to help clients deliver value at scale.

Unlock the power of AI.

QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, helps organizations transform faster, innovate smarter, and anticipate the future, unlocking the power of AI to reinvent themselves from the ground up.

Invent and scale new businesses.

Leap by McKinsey experts work with established organizations to imagine, build, and scale new businesses that thrive. We arm our clients’ teams with the software, tools, and capabilities to succeed independently.

Modernize your core technology.

McKinsey Technology works with clients on end-to-end transformations—building modern IT functions, reinventing technology delivery, and future-proofing the foundation.

Design and deploy digital products.

Build by McKinsey is our tech strategy and delivery unit of exceptional designers, technologists, product managers, and data and cloud engineers building robust software and digital products to meet our client’s needs.

We help leaders realize meaningful growth transformations so that companies can deliver substantial value today and tomorrow.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

• Branding
• Consumer & Shopper Insights
• Customer Experience
• Customer Lifecycle Management
• Digital Marketing
• Insights & Analytics
• Marketing Return on Investment
• NeXT Commerce
• Organization & Capabilities
• Pricing
• Sales & Channel Management

Organizations are facing an unprecedented challenge to chart a path to the next normal. The pandemic has upended working norms and operating models at every level. The path forward requires change, and organizations are not only seeking solutions to safeguard their workforce and improve their performance in the short term but also to ensure their transformations are sustainable over time. We believe execution excellence will be key to thriving in the next normal as organizations restart and reimagine operations

in a new reality. Diagnosing the specific barriers to successful implementation and delivering targeted interventions that transform business models are critical for sustaining lasting impact. From implementing on-site workforce safety protocols to building capabilities to lead during times of change, to regenerating stalled sales pipelines and reenergizing cost and productivity initiatives, we are helping organizations identify the change required to succeed and working with them to unlock the next level of performance.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Assess execution readiness

We help organizations assess their readiness to drive systematic execution and change in transformations using our proprietary benchmarking tool. We assess across ten elements we have found to be essential to sustaining impact in transformation work, which we call the Impact Essentials. This process helps identify gaps in execution capabilities and we then work with organizations to define a tailored roadmap for managing change and sustaining impact.

Upskill execution capabilities

Our implementation experts bring decades of industry experience and a track record of driving change in complex organizations. They are supported with a world-class implementation toolkit, leveraging Impact Essentials and the best of McKinsey’s tools and assets for implementation. These exceptional change leaders coach clients, conduct virtual and on-site observations, roll out performance management tools, and build capabilities that enable a step change in performance.

Navigate transition and recovery

We are helping clients ramp up operations safely. Using our Safe Transition and Recovery Teams (START) offering, we combine on-the-ground and remote support from our implementation consultants to help clients navigate the pandemic to transition safely and chart their path to recovery

Few events unleash as much opportunity to create value as a well-conceived—and well-executed—transaction. We partner with clients to maximize the success of their M&A activity.

We bring our clients unrivaled transaction and integration expertise, deep industry knowledge, a global network cultivated over nearly 100 years, and a focus on building institutional and executive M&A capabilities—to strengthen M&A programs long-term.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

• M&A Strategy & Due Diligence
• Integration
• Separations & IPOs
• Joint Ventures & Alliances
• Learning & Capability Building

Our record is unparalleled. We support most of the world’s largest transactions, working successfully with leading global companies and executives—including programmatic deal makers who are reshaping their industries. Our M&A client service focuses on several priorities:

Portfolio transformation. Evidence suggests that static portfolios underperform. In contrast, active owners use programmatic M&A and selective divestitures to continually shift their portfolios toward better industry exposure and assets. The best keep moving. We help clients do that wisely and effectively.

Seamless end-to-end delivery. From strategy and capital planning through the final steps of integration execution, we help clients identify the best path to shareholder value.

Translating strategy into action. Few companies align their strategy and M&A program sufficiently. We help companies make these links explicitly and translate them into clear blueprints for making deals (acquisitions and separations).

Flawless execution. Glitches can occur at any point in a transaction or during integration or separation. We help clients spot hurdles early—and clear them.

Capturing insights. We help clients refine their deal-making approaches over time to reflect their unique context.

Learning and capability building. We focus on client skill-building day-to-day and in more programmatic ways to make M&A a competitive advantage that is distinctive and repeatable.

Equipping people and organizations to unleash sustained performance

Amid today’s workplace and talent revolution, organizations need the ability to transform again and again.

Success relies on your most critical resource—your people—with the backing of the right structures, systems, and skills.

McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice helps you create an organization and make the best of your people so you can realize your strategy today and sustain performance in the future.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

Culture & Change

Drive lasting improvement in performance and organizational health

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Build and empower a diverse workforce

Enterprise Agility

Adopt more agile ways of working across the entire organization

Leadership

Maximizing the effectiveness of leaders in an environment of increasing uncertainty and complexity.

M&A

Maximize success of seamless, value-creating transactions

Organization Design

Integrate structure, process, and people for holistic impact

Talent

Establish a talent-first organization

This is a time of extraordinary uncertainty. The complexity and compounding nature of disruptions – from macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical shifts, and climate change to regulatory changes, cybersecurity threats, and public health emergencies – has flipped the risk management playbook on its head.

Uncertainty poses risks. Understanding and managing those risks unlocks opportunities – opportunities to explore new markets, capture share from less agile competitors, make strategic acquisitions, and build trust amongst stakeholders. Opportunities to thrive.

Thriving in uncertainty doesn’t happen by accident. It takes resilience. Resilient organizations prepare for the storms. They respond, foresee, and adapt to emerge stronger.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

From the board room to the engine room, we equip organizations to boldly embrace uncertainty, embed resilience, and enable growth. We drive impact by combining a holistic view of the risk landscape with deep industry and regulatory expertise. By leveraging proprietary solutions, advanced analytics, and proven change management tools, we partner with clients on strategy, implementation, and capability building – and everything in between.

Respond

We equip clients to respond to critical vulnerabilities and disruptions by addressing immediate risks and gaps across all dimensions of risk management.

Foresee

Through data and analytics-driven scenario planning and stress-testing, we partner with clients to build enterprise risk management capabilities, anticipate risks, and identify growth opportunities. We help clients translate these insights into action.

Adapt

We help clients institutionalize resilience and crisis preparedness across the organization. We embed contingencies within long-term strategies designed to unlock sustainable growth.

How we help clients

•    Board Services
•    CEO Excellence
•    Corporate Finance
•    Digital Strategy
•    Executive Immersions
•    M&A
•    Portfolio Strategy
•    Regulatory Strategy
•    Strategic Growth & Innovation
•    Strategy
•    Sustainability and Social Impact Strategies

Our approach

Global strategy thought leaders.

Our founders pioneered business strategy. Since then, we have evolved to meet our clients' changing challenges. We fuse state-of-the-art strategy knowledge with distinctive data sets and tools tailored to clients' contexts.

Deep industry insights

We have a deep bench of industry experts who have profound knowledge of our client’s industries that take geographic specifics and sector nuances into account.

Client impact obsession

Whatever your situation, we will deliver a bespoke strategic response. We pride ourselves on coupling our expertise with an ability to overcome organizational inertia, helping bring your Big move to life.

Driving climate action & growth

Meaningful momentum toward net zero is building—accelerate your journey now.

We are at a pivotal moment for climate action.

The net-zero transition reshapes the global economy, opening new markets and imperiling others. Leaders now face multiple imperatives: reducing emissions, ensuring the affordability of energy and materials, providing reliable and secure energy systems, and strengthening competitiveness for companies and countries. Leaders need to take a holistic approach to these challenges, driving climate action and growth in the net-zero transition.

How we can help

McKinsey Sustainability supports diverse industries and clients in achieving complex yet attainable goals. By accelerating decarbonization efforts in the toughest sectors, scaling innovative green ventures, and deploying substantial investments, organizations can make rapid strides toward their climate commitments, measuring progress in months rather than decades.

Hyperscale green business

Collaborate with industry leaders, investors, and innovators to create groundbreaking climate innovations, expand market presence, expedite the growth of current ventures, and facilitate capital flow into emerging sustainable business prospects.

Create value with decarbonization.

Realize enhanced financial and environmental outcomes by leveraging emission benchmarking, targeted carbon reduction strategies, and sustainable improvements across your business landscape.

Amplify climate investment

Unlock larger, impactful investments for cleaner industries through expanded networks, innovative models, and increased capital attraction.

Power climate technologies

Drive cutting-edge climate technology adoption through comprehensive insights into science, investment, scaling, regulations, and environmental impact, accelerating innovation at every step.

Scale nature-positive business

Navigate nature-positive transformations with risk assessment, nature-based solutions, and integrity-driven markets—pioneering ecosystem restoration and emissions reduction.

Collaborate for global impact.

Join dynamic industry and cross-sector communities to drive innovation, decarbonization, and results that no one organization can achieve alone.

McKinsey Transformation powers comprehensive, rapid, and enduring organizational change.

This is where talent meets audacity. From overhauling operations and rapidly unlocking new sources of value to powering new levels of sustained growth, we give our clients the confidence to aim high, surpassing their expectations and turning bold strategies into reality—all at a pace they didn’t think possible.

WHAT WE DO

Exceed your aspirations

We push for far-reaching ambition beyond performance improvement to unlock an organization’s full potential for transformation

Inspire your talent

We engage and energize people across an entire business, inspiring an organization’s talent not just to think differently but to act

Set a new pace of working.

We drive execution and track impact at a relentless pace, where people, processes, and tools work together seamlessly.

Build change that lasts

We share our clients’ priorities and targets for enduring change, undertaking bold commercial agreements aligned to create business value.

Types of Transformation

McKinsey Transformation experts work across all industries and sectors on large-scale, cross-functional transformations, covering a wide range of topics, including:

• Agile Coaching
• Cost reduction
• Customer experience
• DE&I
• Digital transformation
• IT & data transformation
• Leadership development
• New business building & M&A
• Organizational effectiveness
• Supply chain & procurement
• Sustainable growth & ESG strategy
• Workforce transformation

Helping organizations achieve higher and faster returns by deploying best-in-class thinking across the capital projects portfolio and project delivery value chain

We are revenue growth experts

Periscope is the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice. It combines world-leading Intellectual Property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools, with expert support and training. This unique combination drives revenue growth – now, and in the future.

Your organization isn’t static; your solution shouldn’t be either.

As experts in sustainable revenue growth, we support the full chain to impact to get you moving quickly and continually enhance your capabilities whenever you need to.

Navigate a shifting market

Revenue-growth processes need to evolve to adapt to both internal and external dynamics continuously and need to be revisited every 6-9 months due to:

• New data opportunities and analytics insights
• Changed competitor and consumer behavior
• Turnover, retraining, or process changes in your organization
• Evolving IT

THE PERISCOPE PLATFORM:

Marketing Solutions

Get cutting-edge insights into customers’ needs and make data-driven decisions to optimize marketing spend and personalize  communication that drives sustainable growth and outperforms competitors

Customer Experience Solutions

Enhance customer experience by capturing feedback from all your customers, across every channel.

Category Solutions

Become a category captain, understand customer behavior, and optimize assortment and space allocation accordingly.

B2C Pricing Solutions

Leverage competitive insights, and optimize pricing, promotions, and markdowns in a fast-changing market environment across all seasons.

B2B Pricing Solutions

Set value-based prices, determine discounting guidance, optimize deal pricing for large transactions, and analyze pricing performance and realization.

Sales Solutions

Measure sales effectiveness, and empower your frontline with the skills and tools they need to maximize the profitability of each transaction.

QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, helps harness the power of hybrid intelligence to create unimagined opportunities in a constantly changing world.

Transform faster. Innovate smarter. Anticipate the future. At QuantumBlack, we unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations reinvent themselves from the ground up—and accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth.

We do this by harnessing the foresight and precision of data and technology with the creativity and understanding of people. The result? Hybrid intelligence is a competitive advantage that transforms how companies think, operate, and disrupt.

Our approach is relentlessly focused on real-world impact. QuantumBlack was born and proven in Formula 1, where teams live and breathe data. As the AI consulting arm of McKinsey, we blend powerful AI and cutting-edge solutions with deep strategic thinking and domain expertise to help our clients innovate and develop new opportunities.

Get closer to your buyers and consumers.

AI-powered decision-making can help sales and marketing teams drive a 10–20% revenue lift. But disjointed data, complex tech stacks, and siloed work practices are holding them back.

You need CustomerOne, a proven approach that helps organizations drive sustainable revenue growth. It combines analytics, ready-to-use assets, technology, an agile operating model, and capability-building power to enable sales and marketing teams to drive more valuable customer relationships, sales growth, and smarter pricing decisions.

Powered by QuantumBlack and AI by McKinsey, we use a Hybrid Intelligence approach to reveal customer insights, identify growth opportunities, and deliver lasting impact quickly. Our approach allows us to combine human understanding with machine and AI intelligence.

Seamless integration

CustomerOne seamlessly integrates with strategic advice and expert support to ensure clients achieve the highest impact, accelerate value capture, and develop the capabilities necessary to scale and sustain AI-powered growth in the long term.