By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. --Mikhail Bakunin
What we do
We serve clients at every level of their organization, in whatever capacity we can be most useful, whether as trusted advisors to top management or as hands-on coaches to front line employees. For every instance, we assemble a team with the most appropriate experience and expertise.
No matter the challenge, we focus on delivering rational and practical results, that equip our clients with the tools and foundation to grow and lead. We partner with clients to facilitate our recommendations into actual results. Our implementation specialists work directly with clients over long periods to help develop workforce skills, drive operational improvement, and apply new working methods.
We continually seek new and better ways to serve our clients, and aim to anticipate their future needs. We encourage our people to create and pilot new capabilities and tools, and we invest our firm’s resources in these efforts:
Digital Labs turn ideas and strategies into prototypes and applications quickly—from overnight visualizations to enterprise-level applications
Guided by our values
We strive to build a relationship of trust with every client, for the long-term. This is the case because our clients know we put their interests ahead of the firm’s.
Learn more about our mission and values.
Contributing to societyWe are committed to making a positive difference to the world. We address societal issues because it’s our responsibility, and because it improves the condition of the societies in which we, our families, friends and clients live and do business.
Learn more about the Generation initiative aimed at addressing youth unemployment.more
Most importantly, we believe that the health of our society depends on the health of its institutions. As a firm that serves clients, we help a wide range of organizations improve their performance and health. Collectively, their advances improve society.
We serve clients at every level of their organization, in whatever capacity we can be most useful, whether as trusted advisors to top management or as hands-on coaches to front line employees. For every instance, we assemble a team with the most appropriate experience and expertise.
No matter the challenge, we focus on delivering rational and practical results, that equip our clients with the tools and foundation to grow and lead. We partner with clients to facilitate our recommendations into actual results. Our implementation specialists work directly with clients over long periods to help develop workforce skills, drive operational improvement, and apply new working methods.
We continually seek new and better ways to serve our clients, and aim to anticipate their future needs. We encourage our people to create and pilot new capabilities and tools, and we invest our firm’s resources in these efforts:
Digital Labs turn ideas and strategies into prototypes and applications quickly—from overnight visualizations to enterprise-level applications
- Technologists from develop rapid prototypes, build custom software and apps, and embed recommendations directly in clients’ existing technology platforms.
- Data experts from build and maintain advanced data models that allow our clients to generate insights and make better, faster decisions
- Turnaround executives work in all regions and industries to help set distressed or failing businesses back on a course to long-term financial health
Guided by our values
We strive to build a relationship of trust with every client, for the long-term. This is the case because our clients know we put their interests ahead of the firm’s.
- We guard client confidences.
- We don’t publicize our work for our clients.
- We express the truth as we see it.
- We will only take on an engagement if we believe we can create value for the client substantially in excess of our professional fees.
Learn more about our mission and values.
Contributing to societyWe are committed to making a positive difference to the world. We address societal issues because it’s our responsibility, and because it improves the condition of the societies in which we, our families, friends and clients live and do business.
Learn more about the Generation initiative aimed at addressing youth unemployment.more
- We provide knowledge and skills to help other organizations make a difference. As a client service firm, this is the single most powerful thing we can do. Our research helps to identify the most successful interventions for big, intractable problems. We also develop tools to help nonprofits maximize their efficiency, and work with governments, NGOs, and nonprofit organizations to respond and rebuild in the aftermath of disasters.
- We use our capacity to connect and convene to help create partnerships so that organizations together can tackle problems that alone they could not. In 2014 we launched the McKinsey Social Initiative, an independent non-profit with a strategy based on this partnership principle: building cross-sector partnerships to develop and implement scalable solutions for global issues. The first initiative, “Generation”, brings together employers, governments, trainers and job seekers to create a million jobs for young people.
- We empower our people at all levels to get involved with societal causes and follow their passion for helping others. We encourage them to contribute to pro bono projects in their countries, to volunteer in their communities, and to use their skills on nonprofit boards. We make it possible to take time off to contribute to societal causes.
Most importantly, we believe that the health of our society depends on the health of its institutions. As a firm that serves clients, we help a wide range of organizations improve their performance and health. Collectively, their advances improve society.