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Mar 28, 2025
Uncertainty about geopolitics and trade now loom equally large as perceived economic disruptions, and surveyed executives express more caution about future conditions and company performance.
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Mar 28, 2025
How does the reality of owning a luxury car match the dream? A new McKinsey survey sheds light on buyers' priorities, current experiences, and future expectations.
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Mar 28, 2025
Surveyed executives express muted optimism for their companies' prospects in the next six months. They newly see geopolitical instability as the top obstacle to their companies' growth.
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Mar 27, 2025
A comprehensive scorecard can help companies redesign their risk governance frameworks and practices for gen AI and harness the power of this transformative technology.
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Mar 27, 2025
Our March obituaries also include a meat science maverick, an influencer of four US ambassadors, and a waiter who "turned the tables" on his rivals by becoming a restaurateur.
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Mar 27, 2025
Europe is a leader in social mobility, but progress has stalled. Businesses that act can gain significant performance benefits while helping close the skills gap and boost productivity.
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Mar 27, 2025
Amsterdam Partner Ferry Grijpink discusses his origins, how it informs his work, and why he wants to help others from similar backgrounds interested in joining McKinsey.
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Mar 27, 2025
Addressing water resilience challenges requires a rethinking of systems, long-term planning, and bold collective action.
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Mar 27, 2025
Gen AI can enhance profitable B2B sales growth. Seven use cases show how B2B leaders can maximize benefits and drive sustainable impact with a tailored gen AI strategy.
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Mar 27, 2025
London Partner Peter Cooper talks about his background, the efforts his parents made to secure him the best possible education, and how his work on a PhD in urban sustainability led to a position at McKinsey.
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Mar 27, 2025
London Partner Emma Parry discusses her small-town upbringing on the Scottish coast and how her background helps her to relate to a range of clients far removed from corporate offices in London.
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Mar 27, 2025
A new book reveals hidden challenges that hold professional women back—and details how some manage to rise in the ranks regardless.
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Mar 26, 2025
Understanding micromarket trends—and utilizing AI—in the US rack-to-retail fuel market could help retailers optimize their supply chains and improve margins.
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Mar 26, 2025
Is poor health costing your company? New research reveals how few employees describe their health positively—and how even small steps can start measurably improving that number.
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Mar 26, 2025
After the educational adventure of a lifetime, one family's experiences illustrate the transformative power of travel—and how everyone can make the world their classroom.
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Mar 26, 2025
The healthcare sector has been integrating generative AI to enhance operations and engage stakeholders, with many advancing to full-scale implementation.
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Mar 25, 2025
Diageo's chief innovation officer shares how the alcoholic-beverage maker refreshes growth through innovation, enabled by customer data and generative AI, all focused on the consumer.
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Mar 25, 2025
Semiconductors are vital to some of the world's most important industries. What will it take to ensure US semiconductor manufacturers continue to have the chemical and material inputs they need?
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Mar 25, 2025
Although payers have been comparatively slow to adopt digital and AI tools for some valid reasons, healthcare payer digital transformation could help them create meaningful value and boost resilience.
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Mar 25, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 25, 2025
AI agents are the tools we use to interact with AI. They can automate and perform complex tasks, such as natural language processing, that would normally require humans.
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Mar 24, 2025
In a challenging geopolitical and market environment, midsize industrial companies are under pressure to build resilience and scale. Seven transformation levers can help them reach their potential.
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Mar 21, 2025
Private companies are already playing a role in Italy's healthcare system. A number of factors could help investors evaluate opportunities to improve care delivery and outcomes.
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Mar 21, 2025
To compete in an increasingly complex market, companies will need to unleash distinctive capabilities, reduce low-value work, speed up decision-making, and harness AI and digital.
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Mar 21, 2025
AI is more accessible than ever before, and it holds untapped potential for remanufacturing players across sectors.
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Mar 21, 2025
Across Europe, consumers intend to limit their spending, but they deem some categories to be splurge-worthy.
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Mar 21, 2025
Geopolitical and trade uncertainty stayed elevated in February, with inflation back in focus as consumers and producers expect higher prices; industry sentiment is still positive despite slow growth.
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Mar 20, 2025
Cognitive biases affect human decisions. Here's a primer on the most common decision-making challenges—and practices that organizations can implement to overcome them.
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Mar 20, 2025
Under pressure to ramp up production, manufacturers of advanced products can take six tactical steps to streamline their operations, accelerate production, and reach their full performance potential.
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Mar 20, 2025
By defining the right operating structure, data governance model, and change management approach, COOs can help their companies make the most of their AI investments.
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Mar 20, 2025
There is little agreement on how to define rural America. A more thorough understanding and appreciation of these areas could have a real impact on the people who live there.
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Mar 19, 2025
Leaders are facing difficult decisions about how far to take their technology investments today, to enable the AI-driven contact center of tomorrow.
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Mar 19, 2025
How can we confront the enduring scars of history? A Pulitzer Prize finalist investigates his family's past, revealing the profound impact of enslavement and generational trauma on mental health.
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Mar 18, 2025
When strategic resilience is embedded in risk management, disruption can become a means for growth.
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Mar 18, 2025
Reducing emissions in Tier 2 production is one of the fashion industry's most complex challenges. Six actions can help make industry players more sustainable.
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Mar 18, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 17, 2025
Spain could support the decarbonization of the transport sector by manufacturing renewable molecules and could lead as a European sustainable fuel producer.
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Mar 17, 2025
Commercial innovation is driving rapid advancements in defense technology, but maturity and readiness vary.
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Mar 17, 2025
Employees are ready for AI. How can their leaders help them unleash new levels of creativity and productivity?
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Mar 17, 2025
Seamless integration of healthcare data systems has the potential to enhance experience and outcomes for patients and healthcare workers, yet ways of achieving such integration can vary significantly.
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Mar 14, 2025
At leading consumer companies, packaging decisions enable margin and revenue gains through improved customer experience and operational excellence. Five approaches should be on the C-suite's agenda.
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Mar 13, 2025
The remanufacturing market unlocks opportunity across sectors for higher margins, affordability, and supply chain resilience.
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Mar 13, 2025
Fermented ingredients could alter the food landscape faster than once thought. However, new business models are needed for the $100 billion to $150 billion opportunity in fermented novel proteins.
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Mar 13, 2025
Productivity in the banking sector has stalled. Here are the tools and techniques to achieve lasting change.
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Mar 13, 2025
Generative AI (gen AI) is transforming aftermarket and field services, offering new ways to boost efficiency and enhance customer experience. Here's how to make it pay.
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Mar 13, 2025
Many companies are integrating gen AI into workflows, but too few have reached enterprise-wide adoption. Hear more about how they can change this trend.
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Mar 12, 2025
The Swedish payments veteran talks about using the power of open banking and account-to-account payments to remove friction from commerce and money movement.
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Mar 12, 2025
Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
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Mar 11, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 11, 2025
State and local leaders are well positioned to help water and wastewater utilities solve challenges in financial health, infrastructure resilience, economic development, and lives and livelihoods.
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Mar 11, 2025
Despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, the future of operations in 2025 is promising. Companies that lean into tech, cross-functional collaboration, and curiosity can power up productivity.
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Mar 11, 2025
With a legacy spanning nearly two centuries, Otis Worldwide continues to evolve. CEO Judy Marks discusses how she's preparing the company for the next wave of technological and geopolitical changes.
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Mar 10, 2025
Europe's automotive industry has been a cornerstone of the region's economy, but disruptions have challenged its leadership. How can the European industry restore its competitive edge?
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Mar 10, 2025
Most promising mobility start-ups fizzle out before they can scale their operations. With billions of dollars in investment at stake, they need a better path to growth.
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Mar 07, 2025
US consumers have become more active in their healthcare decisions and are seeking engagement from healthcare organizations. Addressing these trends can improve healthcare businesses' results.
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Mar 07, 2025
After ten years of sustained, continuous improvement, a new set of sophisticated challenges led SQM to merge operational excellence with innovative technology. The result: a performance breakthrough.
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Mar 06, 2025
Companies are getting practical about how to create value from gen AI—while 5G, satellites, and innovations in phone design also take center stage.
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Mar 06, 2025
The world needs better residential solutions for the aging. Three innovations may hold the key to truly golden years.
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Mar 06, 2025
About 4.7 billion people are below the "economic empowerment line" - meaning they can't afford the daily basics essential for a decent quality of life. The problem is concentrated in lower- and middle-income economies, but about 270 million live in high-income economies, surrounded by prosperity. While governments are key to reducing poverty and raising living standards, the private sector can tailor initiatives to economically empower more people, write Kweilin Ellingrud and Kevin Russell in World Economic Forum.
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Mar 05, 2025
The head of the North American steel company talks about its wide-ranging business strategy—and the company culture that took him from the plant floor to CEO over his 28 years at the company.
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Mar 05, 2025
In this ever-evolving region, 18 arenas of competition will present challenges and opportunities that determine the future of New York.
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Mar 05, 2025
With their working-age populations shrinking, many emerging economies are set to experience the same demographic problems plaguing developed countries. They must act now to prepare for the moment when their demographic dividend fades and the burden of supporting an older population becomes unavoidable, write Anu Madgavkar and Marc Canal Noguer in Project Syndicate.
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Mar 05, 2025
The Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF) can help decision makers compare the potential socioeconomic impacts of different climate action pathways.
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Mar 05, 2025
A self-driving car, or autonomous vehicle, is a type of vehicle that can operate with little or no direct input from humans.
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Mar 04, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 04, 2025
While the sporting goods industry has persevered over the past year, slowing growth forecasts are compelling executives to focus equally on revenue growth and productivity improvements.
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Mar 04, 2025
E&C firms that embrace a strategic and methodological approach to M&A can be better positioned to capture the full value from upcoming transactions over the next decade.
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Mar 04, 2025
Pharmaceutical giant GSK's global head of AI and machine learning describes how these emerging technologies are reshaping drug development and organizational processes.
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Mar 04, 2025
While low- and middle-income countries often focus on manufacturing to propel economic growth, services can and should play a greater role.
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Mar 03, 2025
Angela F. Williams, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, discusses how to serve communities through collaboration and partnerships with the private and public sectors.
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Mar 03, 2025
The total cost of ownership for zero-emission trucks remains significantly higher than for internal combustion engine ones. Closing this gap could boost the transition to zero-emission truck fleets.
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Feb 28, 2025
Despite low unemployment and strong GDP growth, Brazilian consumers are feeling the pinch. Some more than others—McKinsey's latest consumer survey shows a generational divide in consumer confidence.
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Feb 28, 2025
US consumers remained optimistic about the economy at the beginning of the year, but caution around spending persisted. Here's the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
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Feb 28, 2025
Operators could provide the backbone for today's AI economy to reignite growth. But success will hinge on effectively navigating complex market dynamics, uncertain demand, and rising competition.
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Feb 28, 2025
To stay focused, productive, and motivated, leaders need to develop their own working rhythms and routines. Here's how some CEOs do it.
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Feb 28, 2025
To stay focused, productive, and motivated, leaders need to develop their own working rhythms and routines. Here's how some CEOs do it.
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Feb 28, 2025
To build up their experience capital, women can pick the occupations, industries, and geographies that present the best opportunities to enhance their careers.
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Feb 28, 2025
Advances in data maturity and AI practices can allow operators to simulate investment scenarios to identify those that matter most to customer experience.
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Feb 28, 2025
Amid explosive demand for connectivity and digital solutions, four strategies can accelerate B2B telco growth. Knowing where and how to play will be critical.
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Feb 28, 2025
New McKinsey benchmarking research shows what separates telecom tech leaders from laggards and how a strategic approach to IT can pay off for operators.
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Feb 28, 2025
Banking is the single-largest profit-generating sector in the world. So why the skepticism about its long-term value—and what should leaders do differently?
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Feb 27, 2025
Companies that give the same strategic thought to workforce investment that they do to capital investment can unleash operational excellence.
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Feb 27, 2025
Decarbonizing the full value chain is challenging, but 60 percent of an integrated operator's emissions can be abated for less than $100 per metric ton of CO2.
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Feb 27, 2025
With telcos aiming to integrate AI throughout their organizations, here's how they can unlock the full potential while positioning themselves for the next wave of innovation.
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Feb 27, 2025
Our February obituaries also include a nonagenarian Grammy winner, a cat therapist, and the cofounder of a Nobel Prize-winning physician group whose work touched 80 countries.
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Feb 27, 2025
In both the European Union and globally, the new supervisory expectations for credit spread risk in the banking book pose a clear challenge for bank treasury and risk functions.
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Feb 26, 2025
New technologies enable consumer companies to uplift skills, productivity, and value. But consumer tech leaders who don't harness the full potential of these innovations risk falling behind those who do.
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Feb 26, 2025
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is grabbing a lot of headlines, but let's look beyond the latest debates to understand some labor market dynamics that can help employers hire and retain talent to meet business needs. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute compares women's and men's work experiences to better understand the tough trade-offs at play in the world of work, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Feb 26, 2025
Nearly 80 percent of the US gender pay gap is driven by women having flatter work experience arcs compared with men, based on an analysis of 86,000 real-life online career histories.
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Feb 26, 2025
Gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills and capabilities. Organizations that harness AI-driven innovation find it makes strategic thinking and talent planning easier.
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Feb 26, 2025
The headlines are consistent: The gender pay gap has narrowed, but American women who work full time still make only 84 cents for every dollar men do. That's certainly better than at the turn of the century—when it was 77 cents—but far short of parity. So, is this proof of continuing workplace discrimination? Not so much, says new research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), write Anu Madgavkar and Sven Smit in Fortune.
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Feb 25, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Feb 25, 2025
The global president of Mars Food & Nutrition shares how the Mars business segment, containing some of the world's leading food brands, continues to meet changing consumer needs.
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Feb 25, 2025
A flurry of activity and new ideas leads to a period of ‘interpretation.' In the meantime, growth expectations remain unchanged, while central banks begin to diverge in their policy rate decisions.
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Feb 25, 2025
Today's procurement function can be a vital source of resilience, sustainability, and innovation. We asked McKinsey partners how to capture the value.
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Feb 24, 2025
A tailored, thoughtful combination of cutting-edge technologies, stronger contracting skills, and deep supply chain capabilities can get a new factory up and running—without costly delays.
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Feb 24, 2025
Generative AI adoption is taking longer than expected. But AI innovation is rapidly accelerating, and businesses must seize the opportunity to stay competitive.
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Feb 23, 2025
In the past few years, commodity traders focused on taking advantage of high volatility. Today, amid leaner industry margins, successful traders can maximize value from existing assets.
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Feb 21, 2025
Production networks that are capturing the value from digital transformation do so by tackling the scaling slump, investing in their workforce, and pursuing sustainability.
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Feb 21, 2025
McKinsey's latest quantum communication report explores growing investment in new quantum communication capabilities to help meet expanding demand for enhanced cybersecurity and quantum computing.
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