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Ram Charan unveils AI‑driven manufacturing playbook for cash‑flow gains
Renowned advisor Ram Charan has released a manufacturing playbook that uses AI to unlock immediate cash‑flow improvements. He urges CEOs to map the entire value chain, spot cash traps and deploy low‑cost AI tools such as ChatGPT analyses of vendor data to achieve roughly ten‑percent savings quickly. The framework also calls for aggressive pricing and a reassessment of China‑dependency.
In a March 5 2026 HBR Executive Live, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky discussed how AI is reshaping work. He argued executives must decide whether to use AI merely to optimize existing processes or to reinvent their business models for the future. Roslansky highlighted LinkedIn’s AI‑driven talent graph, upskilling tools, and data insights as examples of proactive transformation. He emphasized that cultural readiness and ethical governance are essential for sustainable AI adoption.
Having your coaching clients fill out spreadsheets in Google Sheets is wild when airtable exists where they can submit a form and we deal with the formula in the back end
📊⚡️The enterprise technology agenda just shifted again in a very fast-paced market: My latest @TheFuturumGroup 1H 2026 CIO & Tech Buyers Global Enterprise Decision Maker Survey reveals a set of structural changes happening inside enterprises right now. Across three quarterly waves of...
William Harvey, a program manager and university professor, advocates a flexible, situational leadership style that adapts to ownership, coaching or sponsorship as needed. He stresses that teams must first agree a situation is a problem and rank its priority before...
The rapid advancement in models and agentic tools in the past 30 days has silenced most AI bubble bears. The pace of spending is being matched by performance and productivity improvement showing the structural risk is not AI lacking value...
Zach, I really appreciate the effort and the thinking you have done. But I am afraid I don't agree with the prescription. For starters, I don't argue that you should start at the upper left and go down. It is...
John Rossman and Andy Forti released a white paper that merges Geoffrey Moore’s Zone to Win framework with the Big Bet Leadership methodology, creating an integrated management system for corporate transformation. The paper argues that traditional execution models, built for...
🚫 “No-code AI agents” is not about skipping engineering. ✅ It’s about abstracting it. This visual captures a critical shift: AI agents are becoming products assembled from capabilities, not systems engineered from scratch. Here’s the executive breakdown 👇 1️⃣ Start...
I was talking with a designer at a large heritage organization recently. He's the only UX person on the team, and he's been struggling with something I see all the time: getting product owners and business analysts to see the...
Benchmarking data is the foundation for performance improvement, linking internal metrics to external standards. Trusted, validated, and neutral data from sources like APQC enable organizations to compare against best‑in‑class peers, identify gaps, and set stretch goals. The quality of the...
I was chatting with someone this week who's stuck working through an intermediate. They've got a freelancer between them and the actual client, and decisions keep getting made without them in the room. I've been in this situation more times than...
Xtalks has spotlighted Giorgia Palano, PhD, a Life Science Consultant at Knightec Group, highlighting her expertise in validation strategies and regulatory compliance. Palano works with cross‑functional teams to ensure quality documentation and continuous improvement across complex life‑science operations. She emphasizes...
Here’s something I shouldn’t be sharing, but here it is. In this exclusive podcast, I reflect on my years of experience working with CEOs and boards around the world. I share an inside story on how businesses evolve, revealing lessons I’ve...
#WhosNext? Oil and gas workers? #Automation means the industry doesn't employ as many people as it used to. #AV #Robotics #RPA https://t.co/7icqDY8Mvf
The Post Office has awarded a £45 million three‑year contract to Accenture to modernise its back‑office IT applications, covering finance, HR, data management and process automation via cloud solutions. The agreement, running from 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2029, excludes the controversial Horizon system....
You can have a great product, team, plan, and pricing. But if you’re pursuing the wrong opportunity, none of it matters. Two questions define a great opportunity: Are there valuable underserved customers? Is there a tailwind? Strategy starts there. #BusinessStrategy #Entrepreneurship #StartupStrategy #Innovation #LeadershipDevelopment
Alex has been tracking the evidence on whether AI is showing up in the productivity stats. Seems like that may have actually started.
The author will host a LinkedIn Live demo on March 10 to showcase the Lean Hospitals Coach, an AI‑powered tool built around the *Lean Hospitals* book. The coach offers two query modes—Book Search with citations and Book Plus with broader Lean insights—and...
My latest research: The Great CIO Platform Reset: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing a 2026 Reckoning | @TheFuturumGroup https://t.co/5nUzVNyJb8 https://t.co/mo0N1ROE2a
Target fuels AI in $2B spending plan | @CIOdive https://t.co/bz9LR1PLOB More evidence that companies view AI as absolutely strategic to their future growth.
Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill hosted an Executive Masterclass on March 4, 2026, addressing how senior leaders can navigate persistent uncertainty. The session framed today’s “fog” of geopolitics, rapid technology change, and evolving stakeholder expectations as a structural condition rather...
#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: Modern CIOs are shifting from control to credibility: Transparency, shared roadmaps, product operating models, and visible tradeoffs. What current or new practices are working for you to build durable trust between IT and the business today? https://t.co/pO7J5Oaktf
#CIOChat Q2: Realities force tradeoffs. Product teams, business units, and leadership all expect priority. What governance, transparency, or portfolio practices have helped you keep stakeholders aligned when “everything” can’t be top priority? https://t.co/4w0YiIJOHF
A new McLean & Co. study finds that while 69% of HR leaders view total compensation as critical, only a quarter feel truly effective at designing pay‑for‑performance programs. Employees who are satisfied with their overall pay are 1.8 times more...
#CIOChat Q1: Trust is the invisible operating system of IT. When stakeholders feel ignored, often due to massive backlogs and the reality that not every request can match their priority, where does the trust gap typically begin in your org?...
A report from the National Association of State CIOs outlines how states are beginning to explore ways to use agentic AI across state agencies in ways that could transform how government work gets done and how citizens interact with government. https://t.co/6cNwEmicvl...
Alan Weiss, a veteran consultant and author, is hosting a one‑time live event in Los Angeles titled “Monetizing Thought Leadership: The Right Attitude for the Right Altitude.” The workshop, scheduled for March 4, 2026, promises strategies for turning expertise into revenue streams, emphasizing...
The industry has confused adding digital features with true transformation. Having a mobile app and digital account opening doesn’t make you digitally mature. Real transformation changes culture, processes, and mindset. Download the free report now: https://t.co/gNGFxphUMy https://t.co/bz0SeOWTSW
AWS and Azure both surging simultaneously. Oracle climbing. Elasticsearch tripled. It's not one cloud winning. It's ALL infrastructure growing as data demand outpaces capacity. The foundation layer is on fire.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate strategy, turning static roadmaps into dynamic, real‑time plans. Executives face heightened volatility as AI accelerates decision cycles and market signals shift faster than traditional forecasts. In a candid HBR interview, chief strategy officers from Penske...
Agentic AI Surges Into the Enterprise: Fortune 500 Lead the Charge “Microsoft has revealed a very significant figure: more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies have active AI agents built with low-code/no-code tools.” https://t.co/oDaL4iJN1G @Microsoft https://t.co/kq0HBnSaeO
At #MWC26 one theme stood out at the @Ericsson pavilion: Autonomous networks are no longer just about automation. They are becoming an economic strategy, where intent-driven architectures align network behavior directly with business KPIs. My latest analysis. https://t.co/eC7D8S6bFP #AI @MWCHub @GSMA
Boston Consulting Group’s new report argues miners must balance being a strong operator with delivering attractive shareholder returns. Over the past decade, mining firms have doubled free‑cash‑flow to $80‑90 billion, cut net‑debt to 9 % and shifted capital from capex to dividends....
The U.S. Postal Service is hiring restructuring advisers to help address its increasing financial troubles, Postmaster General David Steiner told Reuters in an interview. https://t.co/5x45UAESKf
#TimTalk - Explain the upward trend between high curiosity & KPIs like job satisfaction & financial innovation? with Dr. Debra Clary https://t.co/z3MHEqIDr1 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management
Wiss announced its new status as a Certified Netgain Implementation Partner, giving it the authority to deploy Netgain’s native NetSuite add‑ons directly within client ERP environments. The partnership enables Wiss to embed automation across critical accounting workflows such as fixed‑asset...
If you see only problems, you’re not being rigorous—you’re being narrow. Every constraint contains information about leverage. Every bottleneck reveals where design failed. A problem-only lens distorts reality; it overweights friction and underweights optionality. Clarity means seeing both the obstacle...
It is amazing how many companies I talk to STILL have AI effectively blocked by IT & legal departments for out-of-date reasons when many companies in highly regulated industries have figured out ways to deploy enterprise ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini...
Nicolas Shamtanis and Stathis Xenos have launched Conexus IQ, a boutique advisory firm aimed at CFD brokers, prop firms, and broader fintech platforms. The duo leverages nearly two decades of experience in FX, CFDs, and social‑trading to help clients navigate a...
Heading to @nvidia #GTC. I’m looking beyond the headlines to what actually matters for enterprises: • AI infrastructure for production workloads • Model efficiency + cost economics • Agentic systems in real workflows • Governance, security, and risk • Customer deployments at scale AI is shifting...
Had a tough conversation this week where I had to deliver some hard truths about a product launch. The metrics looked okay on the surface. But when we dug deeper, the conversion story wasn't adding up. It would have been easy to...
At APQC CONNECT 2026, leaders from health care, cloud services, education, finance and manufacturing exposed persistent gaps between people, processes and knowledge. They cited unclear ownership, siloed tools and treating knowledge management as an after‑thought as primary culprits. Across the...
AI is rewriting the rulebook for leadership. 🤖📈 @Gartner_inc reveals how CIOs must evolve as AI transforms the workplace. It’s time to move beyond the hype and use AI for real strategic planning and continuous improvement. Read more here: https://t.co/XDAHd3CquP #GartnerIT #CIO #AI...
If you can’t explain how to deliberately move a KPI, you don’t understand your growth. High acquisition doesn’t mean high value. The real question: Are you attracting customers you actually want? Curiosity about your data > more dashboards. #KPI #CLV #BusinessStrategy #MarketingStrategy #Leadership
Smart metrics don’t just measure performance, they shape behavior. If we’re deploying #AI across the enterprise, we need guardrails against metric gaming from day one. Governance isn’t a brake on innovation, it’s what makes transformation durable. Especially as agentic systems enter ops. https://t.co/r792RxQbTa...
A strategic roadmap for the post-quantum CIO | @CIOonline https://t.co/UgFtyYdqYb My take: Harvest now, decode later (HNDL) is one of the hardest threats for CIOs to prepare for. Because it’s entirely unclear how big an issue really is. But probably...
#TimTalk - It being tender and humble in leadership a luxury that we cannot afford? with Urs Koenig https://t.co/TBYkZ1cTns via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management #Inspiration https://t.co/gEy5sf0WFi
Kli is doing awesome work at Colgate-Palmolive & his results provide a really good example of the benefits of having a dedicated "AI Lab" inside of large companies run by a company veteran who actually gets what these sorts of...
Just finished my segment on @theCUBE from #MWC26, 5th year in a row. @furrier and I had a great discussion on what it takes for telcos to win this time, where AI, #6G and #QuantumComputing are going to converge in...
Transitioning AI from Code to Infrastructure Strategy - successful deployment of AI within Rail, Transport, Utilities & Asset Management is no longer a technical challenge to be solved in a vacuum. It's s a fundamental shift in operational strategy. https://t.co/LgBJKWUDA4
