McKinsey & Company
Confidence 0.85 · 4 sources · last confirmed 2026-05-03
Global management consulting firm; runs QuantumBlack as its AI arm. A recurring data partner of the AI Index (the McKinsey Global AI Survey is the underlying instrument behind many AI Index adoption numbers — see methodological notes on the AI Index entity page).
Appears in this wiki via
- 2026-05-03-rewired-second-edition-sample — Rewired, McKinsey’s flagship Tech & AI transformation playbook (2nd edition, Wiley 2026). Authors: Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rob Levin (with Alex Singla and Alexander Sukharevsky from QuantumBlack). Headline empirical claims drawn from McKinsey client work: 20% EBITDA uplift on average, $3 of incremental EBITDA per $1 invested, 1–2 year breakeven, across ~20 deep-dive AI-leader companies (drawn from a study set of ~200 companies).
- AI Index — recurring analytics/research partner; the 2025 and 2026 editions explicitly disclose McKinsey instruments behind adoption data.
- 2026-04-28-mit-sloan-ai-maturity — MIT CISR’s Total AI Effectiveness measure draws on a McKinsey survey for adoption baselines.
Affiliated authors in this wiki
- Eric Lamarre — Rewired 2nd ed lead author
- Kate Smaje — Rewired 2nd ed co-author
- Rob Levin — Rewired 2nd ed co-author
- Alex Singla — QuantumBlack global co-leader; Rewired contributing author
- Alexander Sukharevsky — QuantumBlack global co-leader; Rewired contributing author
Methodological notes
- McKinsey’s annual Global AI Survey is the underlying instrument for several AI-adoption headline numbers across the wiki (most visibly the 78%/88% organizational adoption figures in the AI Index 2025 / 2026 editions).
- Rewired’s 20% EBITDA uplift comes from McKinsey’s deep-dive case work on AI-leader companies, not from a representative sample. This is vendor-of-deployment data, useful but selection-effect-aware. Independent corroboration: see the AI Index 2026’s 14–26% productivity-gain range in customer support and software development, and the OpenAI HBR 2026’s 10–25% EBITDA range.