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Lambert Bu

Senior PartnerShenzhen

Drives digitally enabled growth transformations across consumer-facing industries in China

Lambert leads McKinsey’s Digital Practice in Greater China. He’s passionate about helping consumer-facing companies achieve quality growth enabled by digital and AI technologies.

His client work includes defining enterprise digital and AI strategy, incubating new digital/AI-native businesses, transforming existing businesses with digital and AI, building digital organizations and capabilities, and establishing partnerships with digital/AI ecosystem players.

Examples of Lambert’s recent client work include:

  • helping multiple consumer brands and retailers transform their China businesses toward digital and omnichannel go-to-market (including e-commerce, social commerce, omnichannel retail, direct-to-consumer touch points, digital/social marketing) with new digital capabilities (e.g., digital channel operations, consumer engagement, content management, social media/KOL management, data management, AI/analytics) and digital infrastructures
  • helping consumer-facing clients set up China digital innovation centers, incubate new digital/AI innovation use cases, and build up digital innovation teams
  • helping a global brand define its technology stack for China with full implementation
  • helping multiple Chinese leading players define their corporate-wide digitally enabled business capability blueprint and launch a holistic digital transformation program

Past Experience

Intel Corporation
Project manager in e-business group

Publications

China digital consumer trends in 2019,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019

The innovations behind China’s Singles Day shopping phenomenon,” McKinsey & Company, December 2019

What Singles Day can tell us about how retail is changing in China,” McKinsey & Company, December 2018

Chinese luxury consumers: More global, more demanding, still spending,” McKinsey & Company, August 2017

An ‘Uber’ for Chinese e-commerce,” McKinsey & Company, January 2017

Education

Shanghai Jiaotong University
BA, Computer Science