Kearney

What Kearney does

Kearney is a privately held global management consulting firm founded in 1926 and headquartered in Chicago, with a wholly-owned subsidiary network spanning more than 40 countries across the Americas, EMEA, Middle East, and Asia Pacific (legal parent A.T. Kearney Holdings Limited, UK). It serves enterprise clients — including more than 75% of the Fortune Global 500 — through 16+ industry verticals (Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer & Retail, Energy and Resources, Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Industrial Goods and Services, Infrastructure, Media, Private Equity, Public Sector, Technology, Transportation & Travel) and a deep set of country-level practice leads. Service lines span Digital and Analytics, Mergers and Acquisitions, Operations and Performance, Organization, Procurement, Sustainability, Strategy and Growth, Transformation, and the Global Business Policy Council, complemented by three branded Impact Networks (Foresight, Innovate, Activate) and dedicated research institutes such as the Kearney FDI Confidence Index, Kearney Consumer Institute, Advanced Mobility Institute, Supply Chain Institute, Kearney Energy Transition Institute, Helios, and Critical Minerals Center of Excellence. Revenue is generated through professional-services consulting fees on enterprise engagements delivered via direct, senior-partner-led client teams — there are no software products, APIs, or marketplace offerings, only custom advisory services priced per project scope. Notable strategic moves include the acquisition of The Context Network to build the Agriculture and Food practice, the World Economic Forum partnership on an AI-First Operating System initiative, and ongoing Middle East expansion through owned offices in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.

Name

Kearney

Legal name

A.T. Kearney, Inc.

Website

https://kearney.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1926

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Kearney is a privately held global management consulting firm founded in 1926, serving more than 75% of the Fortune Global 500 across 16+ industry verticals and 40+ countries through strategy, operations, digital, procurement, and transformation advisory engagements delivered via owned offices and dedicated partner-led client teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate Strategy Advisory (BPAHADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

M&A Advisory (Buy-Side & Sell-Side) (BPAHAOAA), Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships Advisory (JVs, Alliances, Carve-outs) (BPAHAOAG)

Keywords

• Management consulting
• Strategic advisory
• Operations consulting
• Digital transformation
• Organizational design

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices48 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Services: Kearney generates revenue through professional consulting fees for strategic advisory services across strategy, operations, digital transformation, and organizational consulting engagements with enterprise clients globally.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Kearney is a global management consulting firm that delivers bespoke strategic advisory, operations, digital, organizational, procurement, M&A, and sustainability consulting services to enterprise clients. Engagements are scoped, priced, and staffed per project, with delivery supported by proprietary research institutes (FDI Confidence Index, Consumer Institute, Energy Transition Institute, Supply Chain Institute, Advanced Mobility Institute) and three Impact Networks (Foresight, Innovate, Activate) that provide insight, innovation, and implementation capabilities.

Product overview

Kearney is a global management consulting firm offering a portfolio of professional services organized around core consulting disciplines and impact networks. The firm's service offerings include Digital and Analytics, Mergers and Acquisitions, Operations and Performance, Organization, Procurement, Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab), Sustainability, Strategy and Growth, Transformation, and the Global Business Policy Council. These services are complemented by three Impact Networks—Kearney Foresight, Kearney Innovate, and Kearney Activate—which provide research, innovation acceleration, and implementation support. The firm also publishes proprietary research through the Kearney FDI Confidence Index, Global Cities Report, State of Logistics Report, Kearney Consumer Institute, Advanced Mobility Institute, and Supply Chain Institute. This is a consulting services firm, not a software product company; there are no software products, platforms, or modules offered as standalone offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kearney Foresight: Impact networks initiative focusing on forward-looking research and strategic foresight for clients
• Kearney Innovate
• Kearney Activate
• Kearney Consumer Institute
• Kearney FDI Confidence Index
• Advanced Mobility Institute
• Supply Chain Institute
• Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab)
• Global Business Policy Council
• Kearney Originals

Products and services

• Digital and Analytics Consulting service helping enterprise clients navigate digital transformation and leverage data analytics for business improvement.
• Mergers and Acquisitions Strategic advisory service for M&A transactions, due diligence, and post-merger integration.
• Operations and Performance Consulting focused on operational excellence, supply chain optimization, and performance improvement.
• Organization Organizational design, restructuring, and governance advisory services.
• Procurement Strategic sourcing, supplier management, and procurement transformation consulting.
• Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab) Innovation and product development consulting service focused on accelerating growth through breakthrough ideas and market-winning products.
• Sustainability ESG strategy, decarbonization, and sustainable business transformation consulting.
• Strategy and Growth Corporate strategy, market entry, and growth strategy advisory services.
• Transformation Enterprise-wide transformation and change management consulting.
• Global Business Policy Council Geopolitical analysis and policy advisory service for global business leaders.
• Kearney Foresight Research and scenario planning initiative providing forward-looking insights on global trends and disruptions.
• Kearney Innovate Innovation acceleration program helping clients develop and implement new business models and technologies.
• Kearney Activate Implementation support network helping clients execute transformation initiatives.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10:1 ROI in Aerospace and Defense engagements
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments15 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• The Context NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Context Network joined Kearney to deepen support for clients across agriculture and food value chains, enhancing Kearney's capabilities in agricultural consulting and food system transformation.
• World Economic ForumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the AI-First Operating System initiative, providing a blueprint for operating and business model innovation. Partnership through the World Economic Forum Centre for AI Excellence.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Oliver Wyman: Oliver Wyman is a peer strategy and operations consultancy with comparable vertical depth (financial services, energy, health) and similar enterprise-buyer model; historically considered a like-for-like Kearney competitor on operations and risk advisory mandates.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey is the largest global management consulting firm and Kearney's most direct competitor across strategy, operations, and transformation engagements for the Fortune Global 500 — virtually identical target buyers, engagement model, and value proposition.
• Roland Berger: Roland Berger is a European-headquartered strategy and operations consultancy directly competing with Kearney on European enterprise mandates, particularly in automotive, industrial goods, and energy — overlapping significantly with Kearney's strongest continental verticals.
• Boston Consulting Group: BCG is one of the Big Three strategy consultancies, competing head-to-head with Kearney for CEO-level strategy and large-scale transformation mandates across the same enterprise client base with comparable billing economics.
• Bain & Company: Bain is the third member of the Big Three strategy consultancies, directly comparable to Kearney in serving large enterprise clients on strategy, operations, and private equity advisory with a similar senior-partner-led engagement model.

Emerging players

• Arthur D. Little: Arthur D. Little is a heritage strategy consultancy (older than Kearney) with deep technology, energy, and industrial vertical expertise, competing on a more specialized subset of Kearney's advisory engagements rather than full-scale transformation.

Broad incumbents

• EY-Parthenon: EY-Parthenon is EY's strategy consulting practice directly competing with Kearney on corporate strategy and M&A advisory, with the added advantage of being integrated into a Big Four professional services platform.
• Strategy& (PwC): Strategy& is PwC's global strategy consulting arm, offering similar services to Kearney but with the cost-distribution and cross-sell benefits of a Big Four parent — competing on strategy work while bundling into broader transformation deals.
• Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte Consulting competes with Kearney across operations transformation, digital strategy, and M&A advisory at the Fortune 500 level, though with broader human capital and technology delivery capabilities through its parent firm.
• Accenture Strategy: Accenture Strategy competes with Kearney on enterprise strategy and transformation mandates, and increasingly threatens on the operations/digital side with the scale of Accenture's broader technology delivery capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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