With unplanned refinery outages at an all-time high, reliability fundamentals remain critical to capturing market opportunities, while digital tools can unlock further impact. Source: McKinsey The case for doubling down on refinery reliability now

Wharton’s Michael Platt and collaborators studied how physiologic measures like heart rate synchrony can guide decision-making in groups.…Read More Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Do We Make Better Group Decisions When Our Hearts Synchronize?

Health system executives globally view digital and AI transformation as crucial to overcome many challenges, a new survey reveals, yet 75 percent say their investments may be falling short. Source: McKinsey Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities

Travel is roaring back after the COVID-19 pandemic nearly decimated the industry. Here’s what you should know about the journey ahead. Source: McKinsey What is the future of travel?

Silicon Valley pioneer Reid Hoffman explains why we should view generative AI as a “steam engine of the mind” that promises to profoundly alter our professional and personal lives. Source: McKinsey Gen AI: A cognitive industrial revolution

Investment in productivity growth will be critical to shared prosperity even in Asian countries that have made huge strides over the past 25 years, write Chris Bradley and Gautam Kumra in Bloomberg. Source: McKinsey Productivity growth matters more than ever in a changing geoeconomic era

When technologies reach a certain level of maturity, the next challenge is speed and scale. Factories and entire supply networks—not use cases—become the pilots. Source: McKinsey From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption

As artists arrange objects on a canvas, they do four things deliberately that other people don’t. Elspeth Kirkman says doing those four things—and tackling our biases along the way—can lead to better choices. Source: McKinsey Author Talks: Can thinking like an artist improve your decisions?

Wharton experts speak with Scott Powers, professor of sports analytics at Rice University.…Read More Source: Knowledge @ Wharton MLB Analytics With Scott Powers

Amid escalating demand, aging infrastructure, and a strained talent supply, the American shipbuilding, sustainment, and repair industries can accelerate growth by activating latent domestic capacity. Source: McKinsey Charting a new course: The untapped potential of American shipyards