McKinsey & Company

Artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the M&A landscape, driving deal activity and creating unprecedented value. Join Benjamin Houssard and Alex Liu they explore how AI can help drive deal volume, unlock more synergies, and accelerate deal cycles. They will also examine the key archetypes of AI-related acquisitions and the strategic imperatives for leaders to build an AI-ready M&A engine. Request an invite.

“We chose to go big, to reinvent our business.” That perspective from Roberto Alvo, CEO of LATAM Airlines, gets at something I see increasingly across aviation. The biggest opportunities from digital and AI don’t come from simply layering new technology onto existing ways of working. They require rewiring how the business operates. LATAM’s journey shows what that can look like in practice, with digital and AI being applied across the passenger experience, maintenance, cargo, and the underlying technology and operating model. The results are significant, but what stands out to me is what sits behind them. Technology is an important enabler. Lasting impact comes from combining it with the right operating model, capabilities, and ways of working. Roberto and Juliana Rios, LATAM’s Chief Information and Digital Officer, share more about the transformation alongside my colleagues Jaime Szigethi and Juan Vazquez. ➡️More on LATAM’s journey here: https://lnkd.in/eBDHbAKP

In an increasingly dynamic environment, winners are moving from periodic analysis to continuous, value-focused decision making. Join Matt Banholzer, Sebastien Lacroix, and Peter Stumpner as they explore how to bring together trusted data, business expertise, AI, analytics, and new ways of working – to help leadership teams see strategic risks and opportunities earlier, understand where value is being created or lost, and act quickly as conditions change. Request an invite.

“Gut instinct becomes better with better data.” That line from Mathieu Heijboer (Team Visma l Lease a Bike’s head of performance) captures better than I could put it the real power of rewiring with AI—the point is to help us do what only humans can do… just better. A bike race squeezes a classic leadership problem into a few seconds. There is more data than any one person can absorb, several ways the race could go, and a need to make big calls before everything is certain. The system our team built with Visma (which you can read about in the new case study below) brings that data together so coaches spot moves earlier and can test more options. Of course, the final decision stays with the coach in the car and the rider on the road. Two lessons stood out that apply more broadly to anyone interested in rewiring teams and orgs with AI: -Start with value: Pick the decisions where better intelligence actually changes the outcome, and focus AI there. -Build trust through use: The system was built with the coaches and tested in live races, so their input could make it into the product within days. That’s just a small piece. The whole case will be interesting not just for cycling nuts (like me) but anyone looking to make the most of these new technologies. A big thanks to the Visma team for the trust and partnership here and to Sven Houthuys, Diederik Nelissen, Lieven Van der Veken, Just van der Wolf, Arnout Verboven and everyone else for bringing the work to life.

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