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Feb 13, 2026
After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for the year—with momentum continuing.
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Feb 13, 2026
Geopolitical disruption, margin compression, focus on vertical integration, adoption of AI, and other trends have resulted in increased deal value within advanced industries and its subsectors.
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Feb 13, 2026
Five lessons can help leaders build two stronger companies.
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Feb 13, 2026
Changing consumer tastes and sentiment are spurring consumer packaged goods companies to use M&A to refocus efforts, redirect capital, and reignite growth.
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Feb 13, 2026
The rapidly shifting geopolitical situation has accelerated investment in and demand for military technologies and other defense-related assets.
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Feb 13, 2026
Given the intensity and speed of change in M&A, leaders must prepare to communicate faster and more effectively.
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Feb 13, 2026
Explore how financial services M&A is recovering for banks, fintech companies, and asset managers, shaping transactions and industry transformation.
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Feb 13, 2026
The most experienced acquirers continue to outpace competitors, and their approach can guide companies with less extensive—or rusty—M&A capabilities.
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Feb 13, 2026
Megadeals, joint ventures, and rising private equity activity provided momentum in a year of growth.
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Feb 13, 2026
Value derived from cost, capital, and revenue synergies can give companies a competitive edge to counter the premium prices financial investors often offer.
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Feb 13, 2026
Multiple forces are converging to create a favorable environment for M&A activity involving biopharmaceutical, medtech, and life-sciences-services companies.
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Feb 13, 2026
Carriers and brokers are recalibrating their portfolios, consolidating their capabilities, and redefining where expansion could deliver genuine strategic and financial advantage.
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Feb 13, 2026
Private capital has reemerged as a critical driver of M&A.
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Feb 13, 2026
AI investment isn't just fueling innovation; it's reshaping competitive dynamics and catalyzing a new wave of strategic M&A across the global tech landscape.
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Feb 13, 2026
Tech, media, and telecom players are revisiting their M&A strategies and reshaping their deal rationales to address significant structural, competitive, and technological shifts.
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Feb 13, 2026
Travel, logistics, and infrastructure M&A rebounded strongly, driven primarily by large transactions amid lasting uncertainty from tariffs and geopolitical shocks.
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Feb 13, 2026
Mergers represent a rare opportunity to transform an organization's operating model to achieve strategic objectives and deliver promised value. That requires a thoughtful, leader-driven process.
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Feb 13, 2026
Rather than using M&A to focus on expansion and diversification into new value pools, many US healthcare players are deploying it to access new capabilities and enhance existing assets.
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Feb 12, 2026
By making targeted improvements to existing US defense industrial base operations, manufacturers could cut production ramp-up times in half and double new capital efficiency.
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Feb 12, 2026
Europe can tackle fragmentation by collaborating on early tech maturation, practical approaches, and a winning team mindset, while executing on time, at pace, and at sustainable cost.
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Feb 12, 2026
Supply chain consolidation could unlock €9 billion in annual run-rate cost synergies, while boosting interoperability and strategic resilience.
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Feb 12, 2026
In the face of modern warfare, a multidomain defense system is vital—necessitating a move from a vertically integrated approach to modular systems within the future defense tech stack.
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Feb 12, 2026
Current European defense acquisition systems are no longer effective in the uncertain geopolitical landscape. Fundamental reform is needed for quick decisions, rapid deployment, and sustainable scale.
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Feb 12, 2026
The McKinsey European Defense Dashboard presented here provides a comprehensive set of metrics to track the evolving defense posture of European NATO countries.
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Feb 11, 2026
This year's dominant themes include agentic AI, the growth of the resale market, the quest for operational efficiency, and strategic renewal in the luxury sector.
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Feb 10, 2026
AI adoption in Southeast Asia is at an inflection point—moving rapidly from exploration to deployment. With strong digital foundations, tech-savvy enterprises, and a young, connected population, the region's major economies are accelerating toward global competitiveness.
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Feb 10, 2026
Private equity weather has improved, revealing more demanding, technical ground. Here's what our analyses indicate for dealmakers, operators, fundraisers, and LPs as they look to the road ahead.
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Feb 09, 2026
Our Global Tech Agenda 2026 shows that top CIOs are rewiring their companies for growth, deploying agentic AI and data monetization to create measurable business value.
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Feb 09, 2026
Nathaniel Whittemore, podcaster and founder and CEO of the AI enablement platform, Superintelligent, shares his thoughts on how the technology can be adopted more easily.
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Feb 09, 2026
Our Global Tech Agenda 2026 shows that top CIOs are rewiring their companies for growth, deploying agentic AI and data monetization to create measurable business value.
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Feb 06, 2026
Why innovation, like the Olympics, is won in training—not just on competition day.
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Feb 06, 2026
As agentic AI escapes pilot purgatory, more businesses are bringing best-in-class AI capabilities into their call centers—transforming operations and fundamentally improving customer experiences.
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Feb 06, 2026
Over the past century, economic growth has delivered higher incomes and longer lives, while empowering millions of people. Looking to the future, a world where everyone can live securely and with options - as opposed to just subsisting - is within reach, but will require emerging economies to continue expanding, write Marc Canal Noguer, Nick Leung, and Chris Bradley in Project Syndicate.
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Feb 05, 2026
Our latest obituaries also include a plastics magnate, a probiotic pioneer, and an award-winning architect whose work defied convention—and gravity.
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Feb 05, 2026
The rise of GLP-1 drugs is shifting the discussion of obesity from an intractable issue to a treatable medical condition—inspiring innovation across a range of industries and representing trillions in potential economic uplift.
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Feb 05, 2026
Agentic AI is changing what the procurement function can achieve—shifting procurement's focus from transaction tasks to a strategic driver of growth, sustainability, and resilience.
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Feb 04, 2026
The insurance ecosystem is ripe for technological disruption. For private investors, the spread of AI will create uneven opportunities across subsectors.
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Feb 04, 2026
Is AI a threat—or the start of a new renaissance? A former OpenAI executive shares why closing the adoption gap could unlock a new era of human progress.
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Feb 03, 2026
Stressed brains often default to cognitive heuristics. Here's how to avoid the trap.
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Feb 03, 2026
The Philippines has proven its resilience. The next step is relevance—intensifying productivity, exports, and skills development to realize its potential.
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Feb 03, 2026
Davos headlines this year have focused on geopolitical shocks and a retreat from multilateralism, and who benefits from the next phase of growth—and who risks being left behind, writes Shelly Stewart III in Forbes.
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Feb 03, 2026
A thoughtful CEO succession plan in a family-owned business can both protect the family's vision and achieve institutional renewal.
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Feb 02, 2026
As geopolitical and trade headwinds redefine global energy flows, buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are increasingly prioritizing flexibility to manage risk and seize new opportunities.
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Jan 30, 2026
Amazon Web Services Managing Director Tanuja Randery discusses the speed of AI adoption in Europe and what it will take to accelerate.
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Jan 30, 2026
The decline in official development assistance highlights the fragility of Africa's fiscal model and offers an opportunity for course correction. Four archetype pathways can help stakeholders sequence practical and relevant reforms to mobilize and manage resources and build more resilient public finance systems.
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Jan 30, 2026
Top economic performers understand their competitive advantage at more granular levels than their peers and use it to derisk and help accelerate growth.
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Jan 29, 2026
As AI reshapes software development, how can companies build trust and deploy AI at scale? Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar shares his perspective.
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Jan 29, 2026
In five years, Krishna has revived the once-stagnant company. With AI and quantum, he sees lots of opportunity ahead.
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Jan 29, 2026
Over the next decade, the convergence of AI, demographic change, and evolving client trust will challenge wealth managers to reinvent how they compete and serve clients.
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Jan 29, 2026
You might be doing well at work. But are you doing what's right for you?
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Jan 29, 2026
In the face of recent financial challenges, US retail pharmacies may find relief through cost-based reimbursement models.
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Jan 28, 2026
Takeaways from leaders on the ground on topics including geopolitics, European competitiveness, AI, and more.
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Jan 28, 2026
Sharpen your problem-solving skills with the McKinsey Quarterly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind and is built around a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find.
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Jan 28, 2026
What drives an exceptional company culture? The former CEO of Royal Caribbean explains how a focus on metrics, risk-taking, and the organization's North Star can translate into excellent customer—and employee—experiences.
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Jan 28, 2026
Despite an extraordinary economic payoff — every $1 spent on climate adaptation avoids up to $7 in damages — the world is spending less than half of what is needed, leaving billions of people unprotected, write Annabel Farr, Mekala Krishnan, and Olivia White in Devex.
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Jan 28, 2026
Imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today's Switzerland—by 2100? In these turbulent times, it seems crazy, doesn't it? But it is possible, write Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit in The Wall Street Journal.
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Jan 28, 2026
Agentic AI is increasingly a part of shopping, but not all transactions will be automated in the same way. Here's what agents will handle—and the situations that will call for human involvement.
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Jan 27, 2026
Two years into a strategic reset, CEO Laurent Kleitman outlines how the brand plans to expand its luxury hotel offerings both geographically and conceptually—without losing its quality of service.
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Jan 26, 2026
A winning strategy requires the right operating model. But many corporate operating model transformations aren't paying off. Here's how companies can help ensure their models deliver.
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Jan 26, 2026
Disruptor-led growth is reshaping nearly every CPG category. Five disruption archetypes—and six defining traits of disruptor brands—offer lessons for incumbents seeking to compete.
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Jan 23, 2026
Industry leaders are questioning how AI could change what content is made and how it is produced. Our research indicates three potential industry outcomes beyond disrupting the content supply chain.
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Jan 23, 2026
New evidence finds improving the health of public entities is critical to citizen satisfaction, financial performance, service quality, and public trust.
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Jan 23, 2026
Brian Evanko discusses the need to switch the US healthcare system's primary focus from treating illnesses and diseases after they occur to preventing them in the first place.
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Jan 22, 2026
A year after devastating wildfires, key levers could accelerate the region's recovery while balancing resilience and risk.
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Jan 22, 2026
CEOs are confronting a make-or-break test of their leadership. Here's what successful leaders are doing to get AI right.
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Jan 22, 2026
Pharmacies in Latin America are adapting to consumer preferences, advanced technologies, and economic pressures. A survey of 2,500 consumers finds five factors that can help guide the evolution.
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Jan 21, 2026
Spend time with senior executives today and you hear both confidence and concern. Most are not flying blind. They are thinking seriously about capital cycles, technology transitions, resilience, and long-term value creation, often under far more scrutiny than their predecessors faced. But many admit that the environment feels harder to interpret. The long term is shifting. Assumptions that sat settled in the background—about energy, demographics, geopolitics, and productivity—are moving at the same time, write Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit in Fortune.
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Jan 21, 2026
Ramin Hasani, CEO and cofounder of Liquid AI, discusses his company's journey and impact and how the company's much smaller models are tailor-made for devices, enabling the physical AI world.
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Jan 21, 2026
Natural gas demand is set to rise in the United States and Canada, adding to volatility. Companies that strengthen their infrastructure, technology, and trading can lead in the decade ahead.
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Jan 20, 2026
Seok Cho, ex-CEO of HD Hyundai Electric, reflects on his approach to leadership: a harmonizer who focuses on open communication and continual questioning.
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Jan 20, 2026
New research from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey shows how AI could unlock productivity-led growth in Latin America if leaders move decisively from experimentation to execution.
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Jan 20, 2026
Aditya Puri, retired founder-CEO of HDFC Bank, discusses his "first among equals" leadership style that helped him get HDFC to be the largest private sector bank in India.
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Jan 20, 2026
Europe is starting to reform its investment environment, but there's no time to lose. Standout companies can take the lead with bold strategic moves that drive their own performance—and a continent's.
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Jan 16, 2026
A new set of reasons to act could provide the boost needed for the world to effectively tackle climate change.
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Jan 16, 2026
Four McKinsey Health Institute leaders explain why brain health and brain skills are foundational to growth, resilience, and the future of work.
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Jan 16, 2026
Despite macroeconomic shifts, corporate targets for nature have continued to grow beyond carbon—but preserving momentum will require greater consistency and follow-through.
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Jan 15, 2026
A new McKinsey analysis suggests that the semiconductor industry is poised for record-breaking growth—but for companies, success will require the right segment-specific strategies.
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Jan 15, 2026
Reckitt partnered with McKinsey to embed AI into revenue growth management, driving predictive pricing and profit — an executive client reference.
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Jan 15, 2026
When Reckitt, a global leader in home and consumer health care, set out to transform the way it managed revenue growth, the company knew it had to think big. Facing margin pressures, inflationary headwinds, and intensifying competition, leaders recognized that the future depended on becoming predictive, proactive, and fast. That realization sparked an ambitious transformation of its Revenue Growth Management (RGM)—powered by technology and AI.
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Jan 15, 2026
Reckitt partnered with McKinsey to embed AI into revenue growth management, driving predictive pricing and profit — an executive client reference.
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Jan 15, 2026
For tech investments to pay off in higher frontline productivity, workers will need new skills. That means investing in human capabilities before deploying AI widely.
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Jan 15, 2026
The UK is among the world's top three destinations for announced FDI. Expanding the range of projects, improving execution, and nurturing domestic follow-on investment could contribute to reigniting economic growth.
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Jan 15, 2026
The rise of artificial intelligence highlights how investment in "brain capital" (brain health and brain skills) can boost resilience, productivity, and growth.
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Jan 14, 2026
Trade flows worldwide are reconfiguring as geopolitical alignments fragment and future-shaping industries grow in importance, potentially leading to a generational shift in global trade patterns.
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Jan 14, 2026
Following our first stock take in 2024, we conducted a follow-up review of the energy transition in 2025 by evaluating the deployment of clean energy technologies in key regions against net-zero targets.
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Jan 14, 2026
Our experience and new analysis suggest a handful of factors enable the companies that have outperformed the rest of the building materials industry since 2015.
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Jan 14, 2026
Medtech companies can expand and align their service offerings to support customers' clinical goals, enhancing patient outcomes and boosting enterprise value in the process.
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Jan 14, 2026
Gen AI helps companies cut costs and close M&A deals faster, positioning them for the next wave of innovation.
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Jan 13, 2026
Five of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute's new book talk about writing a new narrative of progress.
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Jan 13, 2026
Knowing how to lead a philanthropic organization well has never been more important. But little research exists on what it takes. We spoke with leading philanthropy CEOs to try to close this gap.
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Jan 13, 2026
2025 was a turning point for operations. Gen AI and agentic AI moved from experimentation to enterprise impact, reshaping how organizations boost productivity, accelerate innovation, and build resilience.
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Jan 12, 2026
The healthcare industry faces successive waves of challenging trends, with glimmers of opportunity in select segments.
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Jan 12, 2026
Leadership is always critical—but AI is making it more important than ever.
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Jan 12, 2026
Ambient scribing may be nearing an inflection point. Health systems should consider integrating the capability into automation strategies throughout the revenue cycle.
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Jan 12, 2026
Shipbuilding is essential to a nation's strength and economic resilience. How can the United States bolster its maritime talent pipeline to promote this critical sector?
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Jan 12, 2026
The US healthcare industry faces continuing challenges. But if there's one reason for optimism, it's how technological innovation offers the sector a transformative opportunity.
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Jan 09, 2026
Agentic-AI-empowered merchants will spend less time reporting and more time strategizing. But getting there will require new roles and ways of working.
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Jan 09, 2026
Flynn Group is testing AI tools that promise to transform how restaurants are run—and how customers experience them.
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Jan 09, 2026
Resources focused on AI are coming at the expense of enabling ERP to provide the system capabilities AI needs to thrive.
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Jan 09, 2026
McKinsey partners share insights from this week's Consumer Electronics Show.
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