The management consultancy McKinsey has abandoned its headquarters in London’s fusty St James’s area, as it looks to ditch its image as a provider of clipboard-wielding suits and rebrand as a digital-savvy agent of change.
McKinsey has been based for the last 25 years in offices on Jermyn Street, an area best known for bespoke men’s formal shirts.
It said the move to the Post Building in the so-called “Knowledge Quarter” would help it to expand the type of work it could do, going from “traditional strategy consulting” into providing advice on “digital transformation, advanced analytics, capability building and design”.
Google and Facebook have also based their UK headquarters in the area, and…