Envision | Explore | Discover
From empty warehouse
to digital business
With over 150 years’ experience in the travel industry, our client had mastered the art of delivering spectacular vacations for their customers.
But their long-established business model of selling travel packages by phone and brochure was being disrupted by tech-native firms, and the younger generation had begun booking travel from fully online competitors.
With no digital capabilities and no value proposition for digital talent, the company needed to reinvent itself.
“This wasn’t about building online sales channels. It was about putting technology at the front of everything—transforming the business model.”
— Interim head of product
In only nine months, we built a new digital business from the ground up:
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designed a unique organizational structure for the digital entity, and defined how it would interact with the broader organization
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built and released new user-centric digital products, including a redesigned global website and intuitive travel-agent sales tools
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attracted and hired a full team of digital experts, including product managers, software engineers, user-experience designers agile coaches
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used design thinking principles and zero-based design workshops to create a customer-first culture across the full organization
IMPACT IN 12 MONTHS
40+
digital experts
hired and onboarded
5
brand new digital products
designed & launched
100+
new products & services
identified for the roadmap
CAPABILITY SPOTLIGHT
Digital Business Building
A new approach to reinvention: we kick-start the transformation with Digital McKinsey product teams and interim management, building and operating a new digital organization. As we hire top talent into the group, we gradually scale down our team, transferring a fully functioning digital unit back to you.
EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
From empty warehouse to digital business
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