From machine learning operations and organizational change to ethical considerations and emerging use cases, this is QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey’s latest thinking on how organizations can most effectively and responsibly use AI to create business value.
Insights on Artificial Intelligence
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AI for IT modernization: Faster, cheaper, better
Gen AI agents are starting to deliver breakthrough value, but only when companies figure out how to build and orchestrate hundreds of them.
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Podcast
The case for human-centered AI
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Maximizing generative AI’s promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first.
Article
Capturing the generative AI opportunity for the Dutch labor market
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Dutch businesses can embrace generative AI to speed up automation, increase productivity, and ease labor market tightness. What is needed to accelerate adoption and capture the benefits?
Article
Building AI trust: The key role of explainability
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AI systems are powerful but often operate like “black boxes,” shrouded in mystery. Here’s how companies can shed some light and drive adoption of AI solutions that users trust and understand.
Article
Digital twins: The key to unlocking end-to-end supply chain growth
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Complexity, COVID-19, and competition have upended supply chain organizations. They can reignite revenue growth and deepen resilience by deploying AI-powered digital twins.
Scaling for impact
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Strategic alliances for gen AI: How to build them and make them work
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Strategic alliances are a must for companies looking to build value from generative AI. But approaching them like traditional vendor arrangements won’t work.
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Moving past gen AI’s honeymoon phase: Seven hard truths for CIOs to get from pilot to scale
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Getting to scale requires CIOs to focus on fewer things but do them better.
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The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
Executive guides
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Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in tech, media, and telecom
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This collection presents the top insights on gen AI from McKinsey and its AI arm, QuantumBlack, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
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What every CEO should know about generative AI
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Generative AI is evolving at record speed while CEOs are still learning the technology’s business value and risks. Here, we offer some of the generative AI essentials.
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Four essential questions for boards to ask about generative AI
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Boards are responsible for how generative AI is used at the companies they oversee. Asking company leaders the right questions will help unlock the technology’s value while managing its risk.
Industry perspectives
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Fortune or fiction? The real value of a digital and AI transformation in CPG
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A new McKinsey analysis quantifies the impact that digital and AI can have on consumer goods businesses and where consumer-packaged-goods executives should focus their efforts.
Podcast
Reimagining insurance with a comprehensive approach to gen AI
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Insurance companies are at an inflection point with their generative AI use cases. Three McKinsey partners discuss the value of combining generative AI with other technologies.
Interactive
Using AI to accelerate process optimization: Is your plant ready?
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Sensor and process control upgrades are often necessary to enable the deployment of AI. A quantitative assessment of readiness can be an important first step.
Article
LLM to ROI: How to scale gen AI in retail
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Retailers continue to experiment with generative AI and are seeing that the technology holds great promise for reigniting growth—if they move quickly to seize the opportunity.
DATA SCIENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
Insights from our Medium blog by data science professionals, for data science professionals.
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