Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage
5/7/202621 min
As generative and agentic AI reshape how work gets done, the real divide isn’t who has the best ideas—it’s who can turn them into real results at speed and scale. In this webinar, McKinsey Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly speaks with Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin about the updated Rewired playbook—and why winning with AI now depends less on ambition and more on building the organizational capabilities to deliver.
The McKinsey Podcast is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro.
This conversation has been adapted from our McKinsey Live series.
Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw.
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First 90 secondsRob Levin· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] I think we're less in- interested in the number of successful MVPs. We're more interested in how many of these end-to-end workflows have fully scaled across the entire footprint of a company where it's relevant.
Lucia Rahilly· Host0:12
That's McKinsey partner Rob Levin talking about why leaders should focus on company-wide processes instead of isolated pilots when it comes to AI transformation. He joins me and Kate Smage, McKinsey's global leader for tech and AI, to discuss their new edition of their bestselling book, Rewired, which is all about how companies can outperform in the age of AI. [upbeat music] This is the McKinsey Podcast, where we help you make sense out of the world's toughest business challenges. I'm your host for today, Lucia Rahilly. Okay, let's get rolling. First, congratulations to both of you on the book. Again, the first edition of Rewired was a bestseller and offered leaders a really thoughtful framework for how companies could empower themselves with tech and AI. Why a second edition? And Rob, let's start with you.
Rob Levin· Guest1:14
We like to say that, that, you know, the world didn't give us a choice since, um, most of the world saw ChatGPT for the first time three and a half years ago. You know, technology has changed, uh, as AI moved from machine learning into generative AI, agentic AI, this new capability