The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations
McKinsey finds that the organisations creating more value from AI are redesigning workflows and operating models rather than simply accelerating existing activities.
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The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations
Published by McKinsey & Company · Christoph Schmitz, Dago Diedrich, Gianmarco Cilento and Steffen Fuchs · 7 July 2026
View original source →Why this matters
The article distinguishes between deploying AI tools and actually changing the organisation around them. Its central argument is that advantage increasingly comes from how people, workflows, decisions and technology are combined.
Triggerfish perspective
This is why Continuous Growth OS is deliberately positioned as the technology layer, not the proposition. Technology can shorten parts of Growth Latency, but sustainable improvement depends on the surrounding governance, methods, capabilities and accountable leadership.
Key takeaways
- AI tools alone rarely remove organisational constraints.
- Workflow and operating-model redesign are central to value creation.
- Technology and human accountability need to be designed together.
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