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What it takes to rewire a CPG company to outcompete in digital and AI
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Answering six specific questions holds the key to successful digital and AI transformations for CPG companies.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Implementing generative AI with speed and safety
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Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here’s a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
A generative AI reset: Rewiring to turn potential into value in 2024
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The generative AI payoff may only come when companies do deeper organizational surgery on their business.
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Rewired and running ahead: Digital and AI leaders are leaving the rest behind
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Companies with strong digital and AI capabilities have figured out how to generate compounding value, according to new McKinsey...
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Ten unsung digital and AI ideas shaping business
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Keeping your eye on where value comes from is still the name of the game.
Industry perspectives
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Freeport-McMoRan turns data into value
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A copper miner develops a recipe for success along its AI transformation journey.
Report
On the brink: Realizing the value of analytics in insurance
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Insurers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa invest significantly in advanced analytics but have unlocked a fraction of the...
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Clearing data-quality roadblocks: Unlocking AI in manufacturing
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An agile, data-centric approach can help clean and enrich data needed for machine learning. To move forward, manufacturers need...
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Unlocking the industrial potential of robotics and automation
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Results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey reveal that industrial companies are set to spend heavily on...
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Digital transformations in energy retail: A shift toward advanced platforms
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More energy retailers are transforming their digital platforms to cut costs and to stay competitive. We explore approaches to...
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Getting digital transformation right in resource-heavy industries
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Eight core principles can help companies in the energy, oil and gas, basic materials, and utilities sectors achieve successful...
Interviews
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Embracing digital transformation with a digital factory
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In this interview, Alinma Bank's chief digital officer discusses the importance of a digital factory to the bank’s overall...
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The power of pace in technology
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The CEO of Hivemind Technologies explains what steps matter in speeding software development for transformations.
Podcast
What really works when it comes to digital and AI transformations?
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McKinsey’s Rewired distills the lessons from successful digital and AI transformations so companies can build...
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Digital transformation to achieve operational excellence
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Using principles of operational excellence, empowering workforces, and adding digital processes to production can help companies...
Interview
How LEGO plays with data: An interview with chief data officer Orlando Machado
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The iconic toymaker is unlocking the value from data to help rethink processes, surface new opportunities, excite consumers,...
Podcast
Digital transformation on the CEO agenda
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Successful digital transformations may not be as elusive as you think. The best CEOs know up front what success looks like—and...
Podcast
The Committed Innovator: An interview with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo
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When a marketing executive discovered an unexpected market opportunity, she disrupted the company’s original business—and...
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
Using ecosystems to reach higher: An interview with the co-CEO of Ping An
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Expect digital to further blur industry lines, supercharge scalability, and loosen geographical restraints for professional services,...
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly
How the CEO of Samsung SDS sets a course for ‘humble and speedy’
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Won-Pyo Hong, CEO of Samsung’s information- and communications-technology arm, explains how a collaborative approach helps...
Interview
Building a digital New York Times: CEO Mark Thompson
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Thompson looks back on an eight-year tenure that has transformed a 170-year-old news brand into a global, digital-subscription-first...
Podcast
Transformation and resilience: An interview with Best Buy’s executive chairman Hubert Joly
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Hubert Joly shares lessons from leading the turnaround of the retail and technology giant and how it prepared him and the company...
Interview - Fast Times
Make a digital vision real by learning and adapting along the way
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Investing in people and role-modeling the company’s vision creates a culture where employees do their best work because...
More insights
Book Excerpt - Rewired
Choose the right transformation ‘bite size’
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Successful transformations need to change something meaningful in the business, but not try to do too much.
Book Excerpt - Rewired
MLOps so AI can scale
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Most of the failures in ML development come not from developing poor models but from poor productization practices.
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The bottom-line benefit of the product operating model
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New data shows that operating model maturity is directly correlated with strong business performance outcomes.
Article - Harvard Business Review
Rewired for value: Digital and AI transformations that work
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Our analysis of data from the banking sector provides definitive proof on how digital and AI transformations create bottom-line...
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The rewired enterprise: How five companies built to outcompete
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Lessons from five rewired enterprises highlight how to turn initial digital gains into enterprise-wide ones.
Article - Fortune
Rewired to use AI’s superpower
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Harnessing the full value potential of ‘superpower’ technology like AI requires developers with the skills to use...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Rewired to outcompete
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Six signature moves led by the C-suite can build organizations that will outperform in the age of digital and AI.
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What is digital transformation?
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Digital transformation is the rewiring of an organization, with the goal of creating value by continuously deploying tech at...
Commentary
The EU digital strategy: The impact of data privacy on global business
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New data regulations from the European Union require organizational attention, and three key steps can help navigate the data...
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Women in tech: The best bet to solve Europe’s talent shortage
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To remain competitive in technological growth and innovation, Europe must recruit and retain women for the fastest-growing tech...
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Digital transformations: The five talent factors that matter most
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Setting up a winning digital and advanced-analytics organization is hard. Decisions about talent and technology will often determine...
Commentary
Generative AI is here: How tools like ChatGPT could change your business
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Generative AI and other foundation models are changing the AI game, taking assistive technology to a new level, reducing application...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Every company is a software company: Six ‘must dos’ to succeed
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As software transforms every industry, leaders must turn to a new playbook.
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The digital-value guardian: CEOs and digital transformations
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The CEO is ultimately the only one who can shape and guide a successful digital transformation. Here’s the playbook.
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Scaling AI like a tech native: The CEO’s role
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Embedding AI across an enterprise to tap its full business value requires shifting from bespoke builds to an industrialized AI...
Executive Briefing
How boards can help digital transformations
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Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.
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How do you measure success in digital? Five metrics for CEOs
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As organizations launch more and more digital initiatives, CEOs must monitor whether they are delivering business results. These...
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The CEO’s new technology agenda
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Technology performance has become critical to business success. Here’s how a CEO can focus the technology function on a...
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A CEO guide for avoiding the ten traps that derail digital transformations
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Transforming your business has risks. Successful leaders know how to spot them and avoid them.