While McKinsey has almost a century of experience in management consulting, we are also a technology firm. We have 7,000 technologists, designers, and product managers serving clients in more than 50 countries. They range from specialists in AI, cloud and infrastructure to experts in domain transformations, including all aspects of industries and functions. This dual nature shapes our belief that it’s Never just tech: that the right strategy, talent, processes, and culture also need to be in place for tech to deliver on its potential.
Five of our experts share what Never just tech means to them.
We are helping our clients … create amazing new things.
Yetunde DadaSenior director of product management, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, London
I work with designers and engineers to develop software that helps our clients’ data science teams work at double or triple the speed. For example, with our Brix platform, developers can find and reuse existing code rather than reinventing it.
They can train and deliver AI models faster, across many different business units and geographies, and execute on the initiatives in their roadmap—realizing the potential of their AI investments more quickly.
We also contribute some of our products to the open-source community so they are publicly available, such as our industry-leading development tool, Kedro. Our open-source strategy is about helping our clients become truly independent because they can use Kedro in perpetuity, access the upgrades, and use the community-led support model for projects that live way beyond our engagement with them.
To me, the Never just tech approach means we come with our expertise, change management, portfolio of products, and capability building. It’s all based on helping our clients truly transform—so they can carry on and create amazing new things—long after we’ve gone.