McKinsey Talks Operations
Cutting through the noise to transform strategy into lasting operations success
The next normal demands resilience, flexibility, and agility. Join us on McKinsey Talks Operations, where the world’s C-Suite leaders and McKinsey experts cut through the noise to uncover how to create a new operational reality.
Each episode considers the challenges companies and economies are facing, and the opportunities leaders can seize for competitive advantage. We’ll look at how to connect boardroom strategy to the frontlines, ways to increase performance, where and when to infuse operations with technology, and why empowering the workforce with skills and capabilities is key to success.
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Welcome to McKinsey Talks Operations
Success in the next normal demands operational excellence. Join Christen Hammersley and Daphne Luchtenberg to hear how McKinsey Talks Operations will help operations leaders build a new operational reality for the next normal.
Success in the next normal demands operational excellence.
It’s almost cliche to talk about the speed of change—and the volatility that comes with it. Companies that thrive in these times are cutting through the noise and moving fast to connect strategy, technology, and operations.
They are dealing with increased complexities: shifting trade flows, supply scarcities, talent shortages, all to meet evolving consumer demands. New hybrid ways of living and working are changing how, when, and where services are delivered to customers. Real estate requirements are shifting as people do—and in many cases, don’t—get back to the office. Procurement functions are navigating converging forces: uncertain market inflation, capacity constraints, and supply-chain disruptions which are all challenging traditional ways to save.
And underpinning all of this? An increased sense of urgency for companies to play their part in tackling global challenges from combatting climate change to creating equal opportunities in the future of work.
Now, more than ever, companies need to ensure that their operations are resilient. Ready to deliver exponential efficiencies, remain flexible, and have the agility to build new businesses and move into new markets - at speed.
In each episode, we’ll consider the challenges companies and economies are facing, and the opportunities leaders can seize for competitive advantage. We’ll look at how to connect boardroom strategy to the frontlines, ways to increase performance, where and when to infuse operations with technology, and why empowering the workforce with skills and capabilities is key to success.
The series begins with an exclusive discussion with Airbus’s Sebastian Peters and McKinsey’s Knut Alicke on building supply chain resilience.
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Meet Your Hosts
Christen Hammersley
Global Director of Communications
Operations practice
Daphne Luchtenberg
Director, Reach & Relevance
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