Henning serves banks throughout Europe and the Middle East on their large-scale IT and data transformation efforts, helping them overcome legacy obstacles and drive digitalization. He specifically focuses on bringing key innovation topics and the latest developments to McKinsey as well as to his clients and leads several aspects of our innovation and knowledge work.
Henning also supports clients on IT strategy, IT architecture, and technology modernization programs, including core banking system transformations and full replacement across the architecture—from front end to data layer. He helps companies leverage cloud and modern architectures, such as accelerating API programs for rapid innovation.
Henning’s work on data transformations includes topics like strategy definition, data architecture programs, data lake, and data warehouse implementation programs for major European banks, including the strategy around General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation.
Henning is deeply involved in research on innovation and its practical usage, such as quantum computing and its industrial applications.
Published Work
“Quantum sensing’s untapped potential: Insights for leaders,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024
“Steady progress in approaching the quantum advantage,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024
“As Gen AI advances, regulators—and risk functions—rush to keep pace,” McKinsey & Company, December 2023
“Hitchhiker’s guide to technology: 42 shifts that matter to enterprise tech leaders,” McKinsey & Company, December 2023
“Helping banks think like tech companies,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“Quantum technology sees record investments, progress on talent gap,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“The EU digital strategy: The impact of data privacy on global business,” McKinsey & Company, March 2023
“Women in tech: The best bet to solve Europe’s talent shortage,” McKinsey & Company, January 2023
“Quantum computing funding remains strong, but talent gap raises concern,” McKinsey & Company, June 2022
“When—and how—to prepare for post-quantum cryptography,” McKinsey & Company, May 2022
“Shaping the long race in quantum communication and quantum sensing,” McKinsey & Company, December 2021
“A quantum wake-up call for European CEOs,” McKinsey & Company, December 2021
“International personal-data transfer amid regulatory upheaval,” McKinsey & Company, March 2021
“How to profit from quantum technology without building quantum computers,” Nature Reviews Physics, March 2021
“Breaking through data-architecture gridlock to scale AI,” McKinsey & Company, January 2021
“Wo steht Europa beim Quanten Computing? [in German],” Computerwoche, November 2020
“Technologierisiko als strategische Frage [in German],” Börsen-Zeitung, July 2020
“Privacy, security, and public health in a pandemic year,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020
“How to build a data architecture to drive innovation—today and tomorrow,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020
“The consumer-data opportunity and the privacy imperative,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“What will Europe’s e-privacy regulation mean for your business?,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019
“GDPR compliance since May 2018: A continuing challenge,” McKinsey & Company, July 2019
“IT needs to embrace complexity to take control of its own destiny,” McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“Why you need a digital data architecture to build a sustainable digital business,” McKinsey & Company, November 2017
“Tackling GDPR compliance before time runs out,” McKinsey & Company, August 2017
“The EU data protection regulation—compliance burden or foundation for digitization?,” McKinsey & Company, January 2017
“Nanotransformation and current fluctuations in exciton condensate junctions,” Physical Review Letters, April 2012
Past Experience
University of Heidelberg
Research assistant
LaPoste
Postman
Education
University of Heidelberg
PhD, theoretical physics
MSc, physics
University of Hagen
MBA
MSc, mathematics
University of Oregon
MSc, Physics
