McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning

McKinsey & Company was founded in 1926 as the Accounting and Engineering Advisors and it grew rapidly. The case describes the steps taken by McKinsey & Company to transform the firm into "snowball makers" and "snowball throwers."
1. What was the organization design that was in place at McKinsey and what did they want to change? Did the change in design complement their strategy? What were the key barriers to implementing change?
The organization design in place at McKinsey was general in nature. The consultants were to be well trained, highly intelligent, disciplined analyst.…