Kearney's expertise

Kearney blends its globally renowned capabilities in strategy, digital, analytics, strategic operations, and change management to help clients gain extraordinary value. It has tightened its focus on its established strengths—strategic operations and strategic transformation, digitization of legacy processes, rapid earning expansion, and M&A. It has a renewed focus to build leading-edge capabilities in areas that drive impact for its clients.

A key plank of Kearney’s reputation is its Global Business Policy Council (GBPC). Established in 1991 as a forum for corporate, government, and academic leaders to convene and better understand key global trends. Through its exclusive CEO Retreat and global forums program, public-facing thought leadership, and advisory services, the Council helps to decipher the sweeping geopolitical, economic, social and technological changes that are shaping the global business environment. Since 1998, the GBPC has published its flagship piece of thought leadership, the Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index (FDICI), which is an annual survey of global business executives that ranks the markets likely to attract the most investment in the next three years.

In addition to offering advice and implementing solutions for clients, Kearney studies and tracks trends in a wide range of industries. Every two years, the firm releases its Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), which details retail trends and investment opportunities in established and developing markets worldwide. The firm also releases its annual Global Cities report examining which global cities are improving in their competitiveness and what factors are driving that success and annual Sustainability report highlighting Kearney’s sustainability journey and ongoing social impact efforts as part of its path to net zero.