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In the fall, we announced that B2B buyer adoption of generative AI was outpacing expectations, with 89% of buyers using genAI in their buying process. Six months later, B2B providers are starting to see the impact in their metrics and facing urgent questions from their executive teams. After dozens of conversations with providers, agencies, and […]

In today’s hyper-connected buildings, cybercriminals don’t need grappling hooks or disguises — just a vulnerable thermostat or door lock to breach your defenses and disrupt your operations.

Frontier Communications emerged from bankruptcy in 2021. That bankrupcy was the result of a broken customer experience sitting on terribly broken and outdated systems. It's new CEO launched four priorities to refocus the organization: Build fiber, sell fiber, improve customer service, become operationally efficient. Frontier's Chief Customer Operations officer, Charlon McIntosh tells the CX transformation story, with winning examples of stakeholder collaboration and guerilla CX.

It’s a new media agency landscape. The last six months have witnessed more change in media agencies than what’s occurred over the last six years.

Driven by budget uncertainty, workforce shifts, and the accelerating pace of technology, our government clients are navigating radical change. While I’ve always tracked public sector cloud adoption, in 2025 I’ve made it a point to focus on government sessions at every event I attend. So far this year, I’ve gathered stories from two Boston-based conferences: […]

When we published our report, The Age Of Agents — GenAI-Fueled Virtual Assistants Will Fundamentally Change Digital Interactions, in 2023, we were watching the rise of generative AI and looking around the corner, noting that AI agents will reduce consumer friction and change how consumers engage with digital businesses. Two years later, agentic AI is […]

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The marketing and advertising industry is gathering for a couple of days at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, from June 16 to June 20. No doubt that AI and generative AI (genAI) will be at the center of most discussions. Let’s look at how agencies and brands respectively embrace AI. Agencies Are […]

Trust is the currency of effective governance. In Singapore, where public institutions are known for their efficiency and integrity, maintaining high levels of trust is not just a legacy — it’s a strategic imperative. My recently published report, The Government Trust Imperative In Singapore, 2024, explores how trust shapes the public’s perceptions about the government […]

In 2024, the digital behavior of Australian consumers is more dynamic and multifaceted than ever. My latest reports — The Digital Moments Map, 2024: Australia and The Digital Connections Tracker, 2024: Australia — offer a compelling look into how Australians engage with digital experiences across tasks, interaction modes, channels, and devices. These insights are essential for brands […]

Place AI In The Business Model To Help Brands Thrive AI reshapes the way marketing agencies deliver value — increasing productivity, accelerating the speed of insights, assisting creative ideation, amplifying production velocity, and sharpening media and search activation. But they are not being compensated for the value creation. It’s an AI cost center crisis. It’s […]

For risk professionals, leading through 2025’s volatility has been like living in an “Alice in Wonderland” unreality. Risk teams have never been more important as a function to guide their businesses through challenges such as geopolitical risk events, trade disruption, economic volatility, and regulatory disruption. Hopefully, this work doesn’t resemble the chasing of Lewis Carroll’s […]

Powerful AI tools are now widely available, and many are free or low-cost. This makes it easier for more people to use AI, but it also means that the usual safety checks by governments — such as those done by central IT departments — can be skipped. As a result, the risks are spread out […]

The (mostly) new Medallia executive team showed up to its inaugural Experience World Tour 2025 in London with a bullish vision for an AI-fueled, predictive CX management platform that puts the insights that frontline employees need directly into their hands. The question is less so about whether Medallia can build out its vision (it probably […]

While enterprise AI spending remains relatively modest today, the potential for overspending is significant. Most organizations are still experimenting, with only a few production-ready use cases. But that’s about to change. Over the next two to three years, AI investment is expected to grow exponentially as enterprises scale their efforts to operationalize AI. One major […]

Software is no longer just code written by a team of enterprise developers — it’s a complex, interconnected supply chain. And like any supply chain, the weakest link makes the entire chain vulnerable. From open-source dependencies to build tools, container images, and AI models, every component and every handoff in the process introduces downside risk. […]

President Trump recently issued an executive order on national cybersecurity that amended and struck several provisions in prior EOs related to cybersecurity. Here’s what security leaders need to know.

The critical question facing enterprise architects: How will you evolve your practice to manage AI’s inherent ambiguity, address human concerns around AI adoption, and architect systems that capture and leverage tacit knowledge?

Learn the right questions to ask and the right tactics to employ to improve customer survey response rates.