Europe’s Software Crossroads: Why Product Thinking is Now Key to The Future
By Roman Eloshvili
For decades, Europe’s software industry has been built on services: outsourcing, custom development, and consulting. That model created jobs and export revenue,...
5 Technologies that Will Reshape Travel in 2026 (And it’s Not What You Think)
By Nick Filatov
While investment pours into customer-facing AI, the real $1.7 trillion cost is hidden in manual backend "shadow work." This analysis identifies five...
Ten Things Every Manager Must Understand About China’s AI Strategy
By Jacques Bughin
China’s AI strategy reshapes competition far beyond foundation models and chatbots. As Jacques Bughin explains, managers must look at scale, integration and...
Business Beyond the Algorithm: Understanding Data for Effective AI Deployment
By Dr. Nadia Morozova, Tamara Miner, and Karen Taylor Crowe
Successful deployment of AI solutions continues to be a challenge for many organizations. In this...
AI Literacy: A Leadership Imperative
By Hans-Petter (”HP”) Dalen
AI literacy has become a critical leadership competency, enabling executives to assess risks, opportunities, and ethical implications of AI adoption. Closing...
What Dentistry’s AI Revolution Teaches Other Industries
By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion
If you're looking for an instructive case study of the absorption of AI technology into a somewhat conservative industry,...
The Generative AI Gap: How Universities are Struggling to Keep Up
By Alexey Pokatilo
As generative AI reshapes higher education, universities worldwide struggle to define consistent rules for its use. Drawing on an analysis of 50...
Nine Logics of AI Deployments and the Artificial Integrity Imperative
By Hamilton Mann
In attempting to visualize the issues implicit in the adoption of AI in business, we commonly picture a two-dimensional relationship, such as...
Your Workforce is Changing, And AI is Leading the Shift
By Carson Hostetter
Burnout is rising fast, especially among younger workers, and businesses are paying the price in retention and productivity. To address it, employee...
Trust, Transparency, and the Future of Performance Marketing
By Nick Waters
In the rush to embrace the automation of advertising campaigns with embedded AI tools, marketers have given up a lot of control,...
The Generative AI Gold Rush Revisited
By Jacques Bughin
The generative AI landscape has rapidly evolved, turning emerging concepts into proven drivers of business value. Jacques Bughin revisits ten key AI...
How to Win at the Game of AI Leapfrog
By Gary Waldon
AI is reinventing the kids’ game of Leapfrog into a serious, high-stakes business, with players vying for the Master of the Universe...
How Business Leaders Can Use AI Content to Drive Real Growth
Growth doesn’t always come from doing more, it often comes from doing things differently. Business leaders are beginning to realize that traditional content marketing...
Employee Chatbot Use Will Shape Your Company—Here’s How to Guide it
By Nick Kabrel
Employees increasingly adopt conversational chatbots at the workplace. Yet without strategic oversight, such usage might default to shallow, efficiency-driven usage, undermining the...
Getting Ahead of EU AI Literacy Requirements – How Businesses Can Stay Compliant and...
By Jonathan Armstrong
AI is transforming business, but the understanding of AI is not universal. Jonathan Armstrong, Partner at Punter Southall Law, outlines the new...
AI Industry Adoption and Its Management Implications
By Roberto García-Castro and Dr. J. Mark Munoz
AI technologies are spreading fast across industries, but adoption varies widely. This article helps managers understand where...
Gartner: The Leadership Blind Spot: Why Executive AI Literacy Will Shape Business Outcomes in...
By Carlie Idoine
AI is rapidly shifting from a technical enabler to a core driver of business decisions. This piece explores why executive AI literacy,...
The Rise of the Chief AI Officer: Turning Ambition into Value
By Dave McCann
Long gone are the days when we referred to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an emerging opportunity — simply put, it’s now an...
Avoiding the Janus Trap: Why Europe Must Commit to AI-powered Reinvention
By Mauro Macchi, Matt Prebble, Dominic King and Laura Ann Wright
Closing the competitiveness gap is a central pillar of the European economic reform agenda....
AI is Making Us Stupider, And That’s Exactly Why We Need to Talk
By Craig Wilson
AI is changing how developers work. It helps teams move faster, but something important is being lost. Developers are skipping the hard...
Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being
By Madeleine Roantree and Adrian Furnham
Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect on how...
The Real AI Battle: OS is the New Prize
By Jacques Bughin
The third wave of AI is shifting focus from generative outputs to agentic orchestration. This article explains how the real competitive edge...
How To Translate AI Potential Into Corporate Profitability
By Louis-David Benyayer and Hao Zhong
Every day, more companies adopt AI, yet profits remain flat. Stuck in the “light bulb phase”, most tweak the...
Generative AI In Innovation Development: A Catalyst For Creative Disruption
By Filippo Frangi
From identifying strategic opportunities to enabling faster experimentation, from co-designing with users to reshaping go-to-market strategies, GenAI is pushing the boundaries of...
Is AI the ‘Great Equaliser’ for SMBs in the Professional Services Sector?
By Bret Tushaus
Artificial intelligence is helping small and medium-sized businesses close the gap with larger competitors. Bret Tushaus explores how AI empowers SMBs in...
The Future of Government Procurement: Innovation, AI, and Automation
By Lara Blake
Government procurement, representing a substantial portion of global GDP, stands at the cusp of a technological revolution. While traditional procurement processes have...
Why AI Tools are Not the Magic Digitalisation Bullet for Legacy Businesses
By Ritavan
Many legacy businesses rush to adopt AI tools without aligning them to clear strategic goals. Ritavan argues that this approach leads to costly...
Between Brussels and Westminster: Navigating AI Regulations
By Andrew How
Artificial intelligence is reshaping insurance through advanced analytics and automation. Andrew How explores how regulators in the UK and EU are taking...
Three Areas in Which to Upskill Staff to Work Alongside AI
By Kamales Lardi
To thrive alongside AI, organisations must invest in continuous learning that empowers employees to use AI tools, think critically, collaborate effectively, and...
The AI Wave is Here: 5 Simple Ways to Get Your Business AI-Ready
By Tracy Sheen
Small businesses can thrive in the AI era with the right mindset and simple steps. In this accessible guide, Tracy Sheen outlines...
Google or Gemini? A Framework for Navigating Agentic AI Confusion
By Jacques Bughin
Agentic AI is transforming the digital economy, replacing traditional search with intelligent execution. In this article, Dr. J Bughin presents a five-step framework...
Reclaiming SaaS Value in the Agentic AI Era
By Jacques Bughin
As agentic AI takes over task execution, the foundations of traditional SaaS begin to crumble. Interfaces lose value, orchestration gains power, and...
Overlook an AI-Ready Data Strategy at Your Peril
By Alan Jacobson
According to research conducted by Alteryx, 82% of global business leaders say generative AI is significantly impacting their company goals and nearly...
The AI Skills Paving the Way for Next-Gen Business Operations
By Greg Fuller
AI is reshaping industries, but a skills gap persists. Bridging this requires a blend of technical expertise, like data analysis and machine...
GenAI: Prompting A Better Marketing Strategy
By Joerg Niessing and David Dubois
Amid the rise of GenAI, executives must master prompt crafting to optimize their marketing and sales strategies.
In the ever-evolving world...
Can AI Help Banks See High-Risk Industries Differently?
By Lissele Pratt
High-risk industries face constant scrutiny. Banks hesitate. Regulators crack down. Even compliant businesses struggle to access financial services. Could AI help banks...
Productivity Versus Ping Fatigue – is AI the Answer to Simplifying our Workflows?
By Caz Brett
The rapid integration of AI into workplaces has transformed how employees engage with their tasks. By automating repetitive work, AI offers a...
Managing the “White Space” of AI to Achieve Operational Excellence
By Dr. Annika Steiber and Dr. J. Mark Munoz
The rapid integration of AI into business processes across industries may lead to the false assumption...
4 Ways to Sharpen Your Thinking and Stay Relevant in the Age of AI
By Stephanie Bown
In today’s rapidly evolving world, driven by AI and automation, the fear of becoming obsolete is a real concern for many....
Guiding Agentic AI
By Jacques Bughin and Philipp Remy
Agentic AI is a new class of AI systems that combine goal-driven autonomy and represents the third wave of...
How AI can Help SMBs Build Credibility and Earn Consumer Trust in an Increasingly...
By Suhaib Zaheer
All Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB) owners know the importance of gaining customer loyalty and trust, in order to grow and scale...
In the Age of AI, Where Do Humans Fit into Business Decision Making?
There’s a lot riding on the choices you make, and strategic decisions can make or break your company’s success. Data is a crucial element...
On Avoiding AI’s Hidden Human Cost
By David De Cremer and Laurence Van Elegem
As business strives to integrate AI optimally into its processes, it risks paying insufficient attention to the...
Understanding Agentic AI: A Business Primer
By Terence Tse
Agentic AI is AI systems with agency. It means they can make decisions and take action as needed. What makes them vital,...
AI Agents will Empower Autonomous, Scalable and Networked Organizations
By Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
The rapid development of AI technology has brought in agentic AI systems with the ability to be autonomous and...
Can Business Leaders Ensure AI Cares About Human Welfare?
By Michael D. Watkins
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, accelerating innovation, and driving efficiencies. Yet, its rapid adoption raises an essential question: can business...
Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Generative AI
By Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Roussiere and Professor Thierry Rayna
With the game-changing explosion of AI into the commercial world, business leaders have, predictably, focused on the...
The Empathy Illusion: Why AI’s Perceived Humanity Matters More Than Its Reality
By Luke Treglown
AI is transforming how we work and interact, not just through efficiency but by mimicking human qualities like personality and empathy. As...
Making Sense of DeepSeek
By Jacques Bughin
DeepSeek, a large language model built by China, has become both a sensation as well as a source of concern for the...
Intuition or Data? Are You Ready to Let Artificial Intelligence Choose Your New House...
By Fernanda Arreola and David Jaidan
The accessibility of new tools for improving our decision-making based on data seems to be a promising way to...
