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McKinsey Global Analyst Summit 2025 — Rewiring for Measurable AI Business Value

Publisher IDC
Published Jan 13, 2026
Length 8 Pages
SKU # IDC20763342

Description

This IDC Market Perspective details key takeaways from McKinsey's 2025 Global Analyst Summit. The event marks a decisive shift from advisory services to accountable, outcome-driven engagements, emphasizing measurable ROI, reusable AI agents, and robust change management. Technology buyers are urged to rewire for value by building business ontologies, orchestrating agentic AI, and embedding change leadership as a product. The summit highlights the need for performance-based contracts, transparent alliances, and industry-specific solutions to ensure sustained impact and capability transfer."Rewiring for value means making ROI a contract, not a hope, where every AI initiative is measured, every agent is reusable, and change management is a product, not an afterthought." — Bill Latshaw, research director, Worldwide Business Consulting Services, IDC

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8 Pages

Executive Snapshot

New Market Developments and Dynamics

What we heard from the summit

Make ROI a contract requirement, not a hope

Replace scattered pilots with a CEO‑led operating system for value

Build (and own) the ontology and digital twin of your business

Orchestrate reusable agents — Don't spawn a cacophony

Make change management the critical path item

Engineer trust: Guardrails, explainability, and drift control

Run alliances as a three‑party operating model

Let industry ontologies drive the early wins

Move from point fixes to end‑to‑end service and supply chain flows

Stand up an enterprise knowledge engine to make AI stick

Leverage agents to drive business impact

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