AI & Risk
Why AI Rollouts Stall: What the Research Says About AI Change Management
Workers who don't use AI are mostly blocked, not sceptical. A review of the peer-reviewed evidence, a 10,000-run rollout simulation, and a 90-day AI change playbook.
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Case Analysis
Five Tech Failures, One Pattern: Why Projects Break at the Handoff, and Why the Failure Statistics Do Too
Birmingham's Oracle system, Builder.ai, Meta's metaverse, Sora and a nine-second database deletion share one mechanism. And 17 of 19 headlines stretch the AI-failure statistics.
AI & Risk
The Control Gap: What the 2026 Evidence Says About AI Risk, and Three Ways to Close Each Threat
AI incidents rose 55% in a year, deepfake fraud tripled, and model transparency fell. A data-driven assessment of seven AI threats, their business consequences, and three evidence-based mitigations for each.
Strategy
Should Graco Build in Argentina? Why the Smart Move Is to Buy Options, Not Factories
Argentina cut inflation from 211% to 31.5% and reopened to foreign capital. Should a premium industrial firm like Graco build there? A data-driven entry playbook, and why the answer is a ladder, not a plant.
Case Analysis
Barber Cardiosystems Case Analysis: Cost Leadership and the No-Layoff Commitment
A full Barber Cardiosystems case analysis: why its bonuses and no-layoff policy power its cost leadership strategy, and how to respond to a 10% competitor price cut.
Strategy
The Convergence Problem: SHEIN, Zara, and Platform Retail in Fast Fashion
SHEIN grew past $38 billion by inverting Zara's model entirely, network coordination instead of vertical integration. But its cost advantage rested partly on a tariff loophole that just closed. A framework-driven breakdown of both companies' strategic paths forward.
Case Analysis
The Impossible Promise: MoviePass and the Economics of Subscription Disruption
MoviePass promised unlimited movie theater visits for $9.95 a month and grew faster than Netflix; then burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in under two years. Here's what platform theory and Porter's Five Forces reveal about the collapse, and why the 2022 relaunch works.
Strategy
S4Capital: Can a Purely Digital Model Disrupt the Advertising Holding Companies?
S4Capital, founded by Sir Martin Sorrell in 2018, set out to challenge the traditional advertising holding-company model. By building a purely digital organization through aggressive acquisition and integrating capabilities under the Monks brand, the company grew rapidly in its early years. The central questions remain: what powered that growth,
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