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Our Partner and Southeast Asia Leader Sachin Chitturu will open Tech Week Singapore's Mainstage with a keynote on AI at scale! 🎙️ Most organizations in the region have moved past AI experimentation. The real challenge now is execution, turning agentic pilots into enterprise-wide adoption. Sachin will unpack what that shift actually takes with real examples from across APAC. Join this session on 29th September and let us know if you'll be there! ⬇️ #AIbyMcKinsey #AI #TechWeekSingapore

You’ve successfully launched an AI project. Now, how do you keep it delivering value? 🤔 AI deployment is not the finish line. New challenges emerge in production: tools break, costs spike, latency grows, and performance can degrade as models, data, and workloads evolve. In our new #Medium blog post, we explore the growing AI operations challenge, and how Live AI Operations (LiveOps) can help organizations turn AI from a time-limited deployment into a dependable, long-term service. Read the full blog here 👉 https://bit.ly/45nPDgH #AIbyMcKinsey #AI #GenAI

What can be learned from the behaviors behind Asia’s most significant business success stories? Through direct interviews with 30 of Asia’s leading owner-CEOs, McKinsey & Company’s new book, Shapers and Founders, examines this question. The book maps a leadership model built on five capabilities: 🔵 Innovation 🔵 Mission 🔵 Risk 🔵 Talent 🔵 Scale The authors, Asia Chairman Gautam Kumra, Senior Partner Joydeep Sengupta, and Partner Cheryl Lim, show how Asia's most enduring companies apply these learnings differently and why that approach matters just as much in the AI era as it did decades ago. Read more about Shapers and Founders and preorder your copy here: https://mck.co/4cFIxbc #ShapersAndFounders #Leadership #FutureofAsia

Many government AI initiatives are stuck in “pilot purgatory.” The challenge isn’t a lack of AI, it’s a lack of organizational transformation. 🤔 To deliver meaningful outcomes for residents, public sector leaders need to do more than layer AI onto legacy processes. They need to rewire their operating model. Our new four-part framework explores how governments can move beyond experimentation, redesign operations end to end, and build the organizational capabilities needed to scale AI. Ready to move from experimentation to real impact? Read the full breakdown here: https://mck.co/4c3lIhm #AIbyMcKinsey #PublicSectorAI

AI-native telco used to be just a future-state vision. For Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, it has become an operating system for growth. ⚡ Our new case study explores how IOH approached AI as an enterprise transformation, reshaping decision-making, customer engagement, capital allocation, and workforce capability building. Together with Google Cloud and McKinsey & Company including our QuantumBlack colleagues, IOH focused on building the capabilities, operating model, and data foundation needed to scale AI across the business. The result was measurable business impact, including a positive EBITDA contribution within the first year, and 30% YoY growth in revenue as the transformation scaled. Read the full story for more insights: https://mck.co/4waA0Eb #AIbyMcKinsey #AI #GenAI #AITransformation

If your team is experiencing “brain fry” from AI, they may be seeing early signs of cognitive offloading. The biggest barrier isn’t the technology itself, it’s failing to treat brain health as a strategic asset. 🧠 Our research and experience with enterprise-scale transformations show a persistent gap between AI adoption and scale. Too often, organizations layer AI onto existing ways of working rather than redesigning work around its capabilities. To move beyond pilots and unlock lasting value, leaders need to reinvent how work gets done, protecting focus, managing cognitive load, and designing workflows where people remain firmly in the driver's seat and AI amplifies their capabilities. This framework outlines five principles for building a brain-powered organization, helping leaders redesign work with humans at the center and AI in the loop. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eakMmabp #AIbyMcKinsey #AITransformation #Rewired

What's a neat way to make AI governance portable? 🤔 As AI agents become embedded across enterprise workflows, governance can't stay tied to a single platform. It needs to travel with the agent. One emerging approach is to use smart contracts to embed governance directly into an AI agent at runtime. This enables organizations to consistently enforce permissions, data access, cost controls, and other guardrails, regardless of the underlying framework. The result is portable, deterministic governance that can allow, block, throttle, or escalate actions as needed. In this new blog, our colleagues Sallah Kokaina, Ali Ustun, Tom Isherwood, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Jalaj Singh, Samarth Gupta, and Prakhar Mathur explore what it takes to make AI governance portable, enforceable, and built for scale. 🔗 Explore the full article: https://lnkd.in/eXN9CAHj #AIbyMcKinsey #AI #AgenticAI #AIGovernance

And that’s a wrap on AI Real Talk! 🎉 We were excited to team up with our colleagues at McKinsey.org to co-host this session for the latest cohort of Forward alumni who completed the new Digital & AI Essentials module. Together, we dug into the practical questions around AI agents, gen AI tools, responsible AI adoption, and the skills needed to succeed in an AI-enabled world. It was a great opportunity to share what we’ve learned helping organizations build and scale AI for real business impact. Thanks to everyone who joined us! We hope you left feeling inspired to put AI into practice. McKinsey Forward is a free, multi-week online learning experience created by McKinsey.org to upskill individuals at different stages of their careers. Applications for the next cohort will open soon! Register your interest today: www.mckinsey.org/forward #AIbyMcKinsey #TakeAStepForward #AI #GenAI

Paris, you were a vibe. 🇫🇷 ✨ That’s a wrap on RAISE Summit, and what an incredible few days with the AI community—from founders and investors to business leaders exploring what’s next for AI. A huge thank you to the RAISE team for bringing together such an energizing crowd. We learned so much from everyone we met along the way! Special shoutout to our speakers Kayla Miele and Gardar Björnsson Rova for taking the stage and leading brilliant conversations with leaders across the AI ecosystem. We loved being part of it. We’re already looking forward to next year. 👀 #RAISESummit #AIbyMcKinsey #AITransformation

Looking for your next summer read? 👀 📚 We’ve got you covered. If you’re a leader or an engineer looking to maximize your organization’s impact with AI, our team has published plenty of insightful articles this year that you won’t want to miss. Here they are. 👇 - The symbiotic enterprise: https://mck.co/4b6pE0t - Rewired, second edition: https://mck.co/4bX7ApM - Creating a future-proof enterprise agentic platform architecture: https://bit.ly/4ysOlOC - Is that AI agent worth it? Agentic economics and the modern operating model: https://mck.co/3Tbh7TX - Generative AI workflows need engineering discipline to scale beyond the demo: https://bit.ly/4bYcwL7 What’s on your summer reading list? Share your recommendations in the comments ⬇️ #AIbyMcKinsey #AI #AgenticAI