Featured Functional Practice: Operations

Excellence in functional disciplines can make or break an organization's ability to keep up with the pace of change. We dedicate people and resources to advancing our expertise in core business disciplines through our functional practices. For example, the operations practice helps a broad range of industries—from hospitals, to retail banks, to chemical manufacturers—to achieve significant business performance improvement and sustainable competitive advantage by aligning operations with strategy. McKinsey’s operations practice is currently its largest practice, and has grown at nearly 10% per year since 1996.

There are several tracks for APD recruits within the operations practice, ranging from specialists with deep operations research expertise to operations affiliated generalists. The range of opportunities to work within operations reflects the diversity of the practice itself.

Our Operations Work describes the type of operations clients we work with and the kinds of projects we do.
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Our Thinking on Operations describes how McKinsey “pushes the envelope” in developing knowledge and perspectives on key challenges.
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Operations Opportunities for APDs describes the recruiting opportunities available in operations
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