What makes Asia ‘Asian’?

Global-strategy adviser Parag Khanna describes what makes Asia’s political economy distinctive.
What makes Asia ‘Asian’?

Globalization’s next chapter

Globalization isn’t in retreat, but it has morphed into a very different phenomenon, increasingly powered by trade in services and by intraregional trade.
Globalization’s next chapter

The importance of innovation and purpose in capturing growth

At British telco giffgaff, growth comes from a formula for making the best decisions.
The importance of innovation and purpose in capturing growth

Collaborating for the common good: Navigating public-private data partnerships

Public-private data collaboration holds great promise for solving some of society’s toughest challenges, but a holistic data-governance framework is needed to help build trust and address risks.
Collaborating for the common good: Navigating public-private data partnerships

For all the hubbub about the US-China trade war, trade is a fraction of China's economy

If China and the world were to diminish their engagement with each other, significant value could be lost for both, write Jonathan Woetzel and Jeongmin Seong in Quartz.
For all the hubbub about the US-China trade war, trade is a fraction of China's economy

Offshore-drilling outlook to 2035

Our perspective on the global offshore-drilling market offers projections to 2035.
Offshore-drilling outlook to 2035

Debunking four myths of organic growth

New analysis suggests that companies are missing some growth opportunities.
Debunking four myths of organic growth

The hospital is dead, long live the hospital!

Hospital care is changing both rapidly and radically. Because of innovations in care delivery and organisational structures, future hospitals are likely to be very different from those of today.
The hospital is dead, long live the hospital!

Biopharma in China: Insights into a market at a crossroads

Biopharma in China is poised for change that will transform commercial and operating models, and require a step change in capabilities.
Biopharma in China: Insights into a market at a crossroads

Compound growth at MilliporeSigma

CEO Udit Batra describes what it took to fuse two vibrant R&D organizations, as well as the business value realized from their integration.
Compound growth at MilliporeSigma

Bringing major improvements to education in Colombia

Over the course of her eight-year tenure as Colombia’s minister of education, Cecilia María Vélez White oversaw a massive overhaul of the country’s approach to student enrollment and achievement.
Bringing major improvements to education in Colombia

Four success factors for workforce automation

Work is changing, for the better. Top companies manage to capture the benefits of automation for their business—and their workers.
Four success factors for workforce automation

The Future of Customer Service Is AI-Human Collaboration

How a cosmetics giant reaches Chinese consumers: An interview with Shiseido CEO Masahiko Uotani

China has become a critical growth engine for this global cosmetics powerhouse.
How a cosmetics giant reaches Chinese consumers: An interview with Shiseido CEO Masahiko Uotani

Older and Wiser? How Management Style Varies With Age

Dynamic pricing: Using digital and analytics to take value pricing in the chemical industry to the next level

Rapid, customer-tailored pricing adjustments being made possible by new digital and advanced-analytics capabilities can generate substantial revenue improvement for chemical companies.
Dynamic pricing: Using digital and analytics to take value pricing in the chemical industry to the next level

The endgame for postal networks: How to win in the age of e-commerce

The e-commerce megatrend is a big opportunity for postal players, but market and competitive dynamics are squeezing incumbents. Three winning tactics can help these companies stay competitive.
The endgame for postal networks: How to win in the age of e-commerce

Why the future is Asian

Global-strategy adviser Parag Khanna describes the ways that the world economy is increasingly Asia-centric and will be moving even more swiftly in that direction.
Why the future is Asian

Private equity opportunities in healthcare tech

Although private equity firms have been hesitant to invest in healthcare tech, they have reason to invest in promising targets now.
Private equity opportunities in healthcare tech

Automation in retail: An executive overview for getting ready

Automation will reshape retail business models and the broader value chain, creating organizations with fewer layers and a better trained and trusted workforce empowered by real-time data and analytics. The winners in the sector will be those who understand these implications and act quickly to address them.
Automation in retail: An executive overview for getting ready

Bridging the gap between a company’s strategy and operating model

Four questions can help a company translate business goals into operating-model design.
Bridging the gap between a company’s strategy and operating model

How Gulf companies can overcome the five biggest challenges to their digital transformation

Although many businesses in the Gulf region are interested in digitization, few of them have moved aggressively enough. But there is a clear way forward.
How Gulf companies can overcome the five biggest challenges to their digital transformation

The Digital Future of Strawberries

Transformation 101: How universities can overcome financial headwinds to focus on their mission

Troubled universities can reset their financial trajectory.
Transformation 101: How universities can overcome financial headwinds to focus on their mission

How digital innovation is transforming agriculture: Lessons from India

Four leaders in Indian agriculture discuss the sector’s challenges and digital innovation’s potential impact on smallholder farmers.
How digital innovation is transforming agriculture: Lessons from India

How much is your company worth to its customers?

Established companies with long histories of performance, increasingly face new competitors with no track record and lower prices. What’s the value of experience?
How much is your company worth to its customers?

A new look at autonomous-vehicle infrastructure

What infrastructure improvements will promote the growth of autonomous vehicles while simultaneously encouraging shared ridership?
A new look at autonomous-vehicle infrastructure

A new look at the declining labor share of income in the United States

Globalization, technology, and other often-cited factors may not be the main causes.
A new look at the declining labor share of income in the United States

Building resilient operations

In the face of rising uncertainty, get ready for the unexpected. To build resilience, accelerate productivity improvement and operational flexibility.
Building resilient operations

Getting beyond gridlock in cities

With more than half the world’s population living in cities, congestion and pollution are worsening. Technology may hold the solution—but only if city governments and companies collaborate.
Getting beyond gridlock in cities

Twenty-five years of digitization: Ten insights into how to play it right

The world that has been radically transformed since the commercial internet emerged a quarter century ago. Ten insights help frame the digital journey.
Twenty-five years of digitization: Ten insights into how to play it right

Overcoming limiting mind-sets to improve safety

Companies looking to improve workplace safety have a number of methods at their disposal. But to embed a sustainable safety culture, they must overcome the mind-sets that underlie unsafe behaviors.
Overcoming limiting mind-sets to improve safety

Bubbles pop, downturns stop

Economic downturns are impossible to predict and sure as sunrise. Build resilience now, because when the sun comes up, you’d better be moving.
Bubbles pop, downturns stop

A technology blueprint for personalization at scale

Personalization at scale requires companies to take on the challenges of technology and business in tandem, starting in the C-suite.
A technology blueprint for personalization at scale

Building Digital-Ready Culture in Traditional Organizations

What Should We Do to Prevent Software From Failing?

Five Guidelines for Digital Retailing

Recharging economies: The EV-battery manufacturing outlook for Europe

As uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, the EV-battery market represents an opportunity for European players. We assess the potential and look at factors guiding the location of production capacity.
Recharging economies: The EV-battery manufacturing outlook for Europe

Expanding the economic pie in the Peach State

Georgia faces challenges to its growth from its uneven distribution of prosperity. More of the state’s workforce, regions, and firms need to be brought into the fold to extend the state’s success.
Expanding the economic pie in the Peach State

Value creation in European building materials—where do the opportunities lie?

Six factors will determine whether Europe’s building-materials players can grow at the same rate as the construction industry they supply.
Value creation in European building materials—where do the opportunities lie?

‘Tech for Good’: Using technology to smooth disruption and improve well-being

Focusing on innovation, skills, and labor fluidity will be keys to good social outcomes of technology adoption.
‘Tech for Good’: Using technology to smooth disruption and improve well-being

Learning to Love the AI Bubble

Five Fifty: The need for speed

Changes in what people want, and where they want it, means companies must move fast—without breaking things.
Five Fifty: The need for speed

Latin America’s missing middle of midsize firms and middle-class spending power

Digital could help the region reboot inclusive growth and regain lost ground.
Latin America’s missing middle of midsize firms and middle-class spending power

Shifting the dial in procurement

Procurement has an opportunity, indeed an imperative, to transform from an enabler of cost reduction to a creator of sustainable competitive advantage.
Shifting the dial in procurement

How artificial intelligence will transform Nordic businesses

AI is driving a substantial part of the automation potential in the Nordics, and it could unlock $80 billion of value for businesses.
How artificial intelligence will transform Nordic businesses

How to Choose the Right Digital Leader for Your Company

Make Gender Equality a Value, Not a Priority

2019 global insurance trends and forecasts

Our 2019 analysis of McKinsey’s Global Insurance Pools database offers a detailed look at global insurance trends, with analysis by region and line of business.
2019 global insurance trends and forecasts

The pros and cons of activist investors

Management teams that engage positively with attackers may find activist campaigns bring ideas that create value and improve shareholder performance.
The pros and cons of activist investors

The journey to an agile organization

You know what an agile organization is, and why it’s important. But figuring out how to pull off an agile transformation is another question.
The journey to an agile organization

Catering to China’s diverse appetites: An interview with Kang Shi Fu CEO James Wei

The company has maintained a competitive edge by catering to the diverse and hyperlocal tastes of Chinese consumers.
Catering to China’s diverse appetites: An interview with Kang Shi Fu CEO James Wei

Winning with new models in packaging

The global packaging industry could change significantly by 2030. Here is what you need to know to stay competitive.
Winning with new models in packaging

Is a leverage reckoning coming?

Not yet. Despite rising corporate-debt levels, research shows companies can cover their obligations for now. But they should prepare for a possible downturn by stress-testing their capital structure.
Is a leverage reckoning coming?

A path to successful state procurement transformation

Transforming the state procurement function is a large undertaking, but it can result in significant improvements in compliance, speed, cost, and quality.
A path to successful state procurement transformation

Fueling the energy transition: Opportunities for financial institutions

As renewable-energy sources proliferate, power grids become smarter, and industries electrify, strong financial partners will play a critical role in providing funding for a capital-intensive sector.
Fueling the energy transition: Opportunities for financial institutions

Transforming Manufacturing and Supply Chains With 4D Printing

Refueling the innovation engine in vaccines

Vaccine development has slowed over the past five years, but changes to investment strategies and a shift in focus to more technical and complex vaccines could renew the innovation engine.
Refueling the innovation engine in vaccines

Talent in wholesale banking: Building a sustainable competitive advantage

People with the right skills and talents are the greatest differentiator for banks. They are also the scarcest resource.
Talent in wholesale banking: Building a sustainable competitive advantage

Want a better decision? Plan a better meeting

Effective meetings produce better business decisions. Yet too many decision meetings are doomed from the get-go. You can do better.
Want a better decision? Plan a better meeting

What high-reliability organizations get right

Technology isn’t the only—or even the most important—reason high-reliability organizations outperform their peers.
What high-reliability organizations get right

How Digital Platforms Have Become Double-Edged Swords

Brexit: The bigger picture—Rethinking supply chains in a time of uncertainty

UK companies can and should see the current high-uncertainty environment as a spur to rethink their supply chain strategies and make them more resilient.
Brexit: The bigger picture—Rethinking supply chains in a time of uncertainty

The right digital-platform strategy

Many incumbents are starting to build their own platforms or to forge ties with others. The penalty for not playing may be steep.
The right digital-platform strategy

Three questions about emerging economies

Four leading voices share their perspective on whether emerging markets will continue to drive growth, and how.
Three questions about emerging economies

The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch

How to Become a Strategic Leader

A transformation in store

Brick-and-mortar retail stores need to up their game. Technology could give them significant boost.
A transformation in store

Leading your organization to responsible AI

Company values can offer a compass for the appropriate application of AI, but CEOs must provide employees with further guidance.
Leading your organization to responsible AI

Giants can dance: Agile organizations in asset-heavy industries

The agile revolution is sweeping across industries, and asset-heavy companies are taking note. We explore how and where they can capture the benefits of agility while preserving safety and assurance.
Giants can dance: Agile organizations in asset-heavy industries

‘Power partnerships’: Manufacturer–retailer collaborations that work

Our research shows that when consumer-goods manufacturers collaborate more closely with retailers, they outperform their competitors. We identified four principles for fruitful partnerships.
‘Power partnerships’: Manufacturer–retailer collaborations that work

The coming shakeout in industrial distribution

And five keys to outperformance in the years ahead.
The coming shakeout in industrial distribution

Addressing the social determinants of health: Capturing improved health outcomes and ROI for state Medicaid programs

The social determinants of health (SDoH) strongly contribute to variations in health status. Addressing SDoH can help ensure access to high-quality care, improve outcomes, and manage costs.
Addressing the social determinants of health: Capturing improved health outcomes and ROI for state Medicaid programs

How to move fast: Innovation at speed and scale

Leading start-ups innovate, go to market, and scale quickly with limited resources. What can large companies learn from the start-up playbook?
How to move fast: Innovation at speed and scale

Three keys to faster, better decisions

Decision makers fed up with slow or subpar results take heart. Three practices can help improve decision making and convince skeptical business leaders that there is life after death by committee.
Three keys to faster, better decisions

Managing data as an asset: An interview with the CEO of Informatica

Anil Chakravarthy draws on his experience leading a data-management business to discuss new technical and organizational approaches that help companies create value with data.
Managing data as an asset: An interview with the CEO of Informatica

Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones

Executives often assume that speed comes at the cost of quality in decision making. A survey challenges this belief and offers tips on getting the best of both worlds.
Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones

Navigating a perfect storm in the Middle East’s consumer sector

Amid major shifts in the consumer and business landscape, companies in the Middle East must revamp their value propositions and relentlessly push for productivity—while investing in digital, analytics, and M&A capabilities.
Navigating a perfect storm in the Middle East’s consumer sector

Five Fifty: Decision factories

Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”
Five Fifty: Decision factories

Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

With continued global growth of electric vehicles (EV), a new opportunity for the power sector is emerging: stationary storage powered by used EV batteries, which could exceed 200 gigawatt-hours by 2030.
Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Survey findings shed light on how social determinants of health affect healthcare utilization rates and consumers interest in social program offerings.
Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Decision making in the age of urgency

Decision making takes up a lot of time, much of it used ineffectively. New survey results offer lessons for making quick, high-quality decisions that support outperformance.
Decision making in the age of urgency

Performance management in agile organizations

Performance management is tough enough in traditional organizations; in agile organizations, three changes are essential to success.
Performance management in agile organizations

Building a habit of disruption in marketing

To be successful, creative disruption must be a constant process.
Building a habit of disruption in marketing

Going digital in collections to improve resilience against credit losses

With delinquencies on the rise, lenders need to transform their contact approaches now to suit customer preferences.
Going digital in collections to improve resilience against credit losses

Reinforcing Switzerland’s attractiveness to multinational companies

Switzerland could reestablish itself as the leading location for multinationals by reviving its business-friendly and pragmatic mind-set.
Reinforcing Switzerland’s attractiveness to multinational companies

Why you should apply analytics to your people strategy

Bringing advanced computing power and analytics capabilities to bear on people decisions in an organization is crucial to driving lasting and effective change.
Why you should apply analytics to your people strategy

Confronting the risks of artificial intelligence

With great power comes great responsibility. Organizations can mitigate the risks of applying artificial intelligence and advanced analytics by embracing three principles.
Confronting the risks of artificial intelligence

The digital difference in measuring production performance

Measuring production performance digitally—and acting on the insights—can give a kick to the bottom line and be the first step on a digital transformation journey
The digital difference in measuring production performance

The Perils of Applying AI Prediction to Complex Decisions

Five Fifty: Decision factories

Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”
Five Fifty: Decision factories

Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

With continued global growth of electric vehicles (EV), a new opportunity for the power sector is emerging: stationary storage powered by used EV batteries, which could exceed 200 gigawatt-hours by 2030.
Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Survey findings shed light on how social determinants of health affect healthcare utilization rates and consumers interest in social program offerings.
Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Decision making in the age of urgency

Decision making takes up a lot of time, much of it used ineffectively. New survey results offer lessons for making quick, high-quality decisions that support outperformance.
Decision making in the age of urgency

Five Fifty: Decision factories

Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”
Five Fifty: Decision factories

Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

With continued global growth of electric vehicles (EV), a new opportunity for the power sector is emerging: stationary storage powered by used EV batteries, which could exceed 200 gigawatt-hours by 2030.
Second-life EV batteries: The newest value pool in energy storage

Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Survey findings shed light on how social determinants of health affect healthcare utilization rates and consumers interest in social program offerings.
Insights from McKinsey's Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey

Decision making in the age of urgency

Decision making takes up a lot of time, much of it used ineffectively. New survey results offer lessons for making quick, high-quality decisions that support outperformance.
Decision making in the age of urgency