Innovation & Learning Centers

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Our Innovation & Learning Centers empower organizations to start, scale, and sustain a holistic operations transformation. Discover the latest opportunities in digital and analytics along the value chain, and work with McKinsey’s operations transformation experts to guide the imagination and realization of your company’s tech-enabled operations future.

Whether you visit one of our 12 locations, experience our technology ecosystem, or take part in an immersive training at your site, you can build the skills and understanding required to launch a holistic, tech-enabled transformation fueled by operational excellence—one that advances your workforce, improves the bottom line, and delivers sustainable and inclusive growth, creating lasting results for your organization.

HOW WE DELIVER IMPACT

Set your vision

Be inspired and imagine your organization's tech-enabled operations future. Solutions along the value chain connect people and systems from the boardroom to the frontline—and improve the bottom line.

Discover the possibilities

Immersive environments and platforms allow leaders and operators to experience the potential of the latest technologies, data, and analytics solutions to identify which work for your organization. Learn from McKinsey experts how to capture their full value.

Make lasting change

Embed technology and operational excellence and empower your team with new mindsets and skills to deliver sustainable, inclusive growth. Create a learning organization to continually upskill your company as your industry evolves.

Our Centers

Our Innovation & Learning Centers provide immersive experiences at our locations around the globe. We help participants meet, incubate ideas, explore new solutions, and build new digital and core capabilities across industries. In addition to our cross-sector offerings, our New Jersey specializes in life sciences with a focus in biopharma.

Besides our physical locations, you can experience our centers on-site at your own location or remotely via live broadcasting.

Look inside our Innovation & Learning Centers and see how the experience—both in-person and remote—allows participants to capture the value of these immersive learning journeys.

MEET OUR INNOVATION & LEARNING CENTER LEADERS

Featured Insights

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Podcast

When failure is an option: Fostering organizational innovation and learning

June 3, 2024 -

To achieve sustainable innovation, companies can embrace failure as a catalyst for driving change. Capability centers can enhance performance and promote learning in high-stakes operations.

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Blog Post

Failing safer for success

May 7, 2024 -

“Failure is not an option,” declared NASA legend Gene Kranz. But in the safe environment of capability centers, failure is not only an option but also an actively encouraged way of learning.

Blog Post

More than 700 new tech colleagues to join McKinsey in Atlanta

July 7, 2022 -

By 2025, we will nearly double our tech workforce in Atlanta, rising from 800 to 1500 colleagues, and open a new Technology and Innovation Hub.

New Digital Capability Center in NJ preps life sciences for next wave of therapeutics

Blog Post

New McKinsey center helps clients build capabilities in cell and gene therapy technology

June 16, 2022 -

Our new Digital Capability Center, which has opened in Newark, New Jersey, serves clients in the life-sciences industry and helps biopharma companies optimize operations.

New center in Italy prepares businesses for digital ‘renaissance’

Blog Post

New Digital Capability Center in Italy prepares businesses for digital renaissance

July 21, 2021 -

In the city of Venice, our newly expanded facility helps leaders see the future through an experience that is part tech expo, part science lab, part immersive theater.

Article

Everyone is within learning distance: Building skills remotely

April 8, 2021 -

With careful design and implementation, remote capability building provides an effective lifeline for organizations adapting to entirely new ways of working.

How McKinsey is helping women prepare for the future of work

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A McKinsey leader unites women in tech to prepare for the future of work

April 29, 2019 -

Over 2 days,100-plus women from across tech and operations came together to share stories of their experiences and hear from other women leaders who are working to combat "onliness" in their organizations amid Industry 4.0.