PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1912153
PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1912153
McKinsey Global Analyst Summit 2025 - Rewiring for Measurable AI Business Value
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
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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