What Would You Ask If You Had 20 Minutes With A B2B Analyst?
Forrester is offering registered attendees of B2B Summit North America a private 20‑minute one‑on‑one with one of its analysts. The sessions are designed to cut through AI‑generated noise and give leaders clear, research‑backed perspective on pressing decisions. Participants bring a specific trade‑off or priority dilemma, and the analyst provides market‑based framing without any sales agenda. With more than 30 analysts on call, the program emphasizes clarity, not volume, as a catalyst for faster, more confident action.
Ram Charan: A Manufacturing Playbook For A Turbulent New Era
Renowned advisor Ram Charan has released a manufacturing playbook that leverages AI to unlock immediate cash‑flow improvements. He advises CEOs to first map their entire value chain, identify cash traps, and deploy low‑cost AI tools—such as ChatGPT analyses of vendor...
Most ERP Projects Fail Before They Start. Staudt Solutions Launches to Fix That.
Research shows 55‑75% of ERP projects in manufacturing miss their goals, often due to operational gaps that exist before software selection. Staudt Solutions, launched in Temecula, California, offers independent advisory services focused on data integrity, process alignment, and organizational readiness...
8 Ways AI Can Help with Change Management
Artificial intelligence is being positioned as a practical assistant for change‑management initiatives, offering eight distinct use cases ranging from drafting training materials and employee communications to building project timelines, presentation templates, chatbots, video content, and visual data assets. Each AI‑generated...
Holding Out for a (Digital) Hero, some Useful Tips
Declan Goodman argues that digital transformations succeed when leaders become "meaning‑makers" rather than traditional "warriors." He draws on mythic figures—Amaterasu’s mirror, Sanjaya the navigator, and Norse skalds—to illustrate how visibility, big‑picture sense‑making, and storytelling engage employees. Practical steps include surfacing...
Uzbekistan Resilient Electricity Transmission Project
Uzbekistan’s National Electric Grid (NEGU) has issued a Request for Expressions of Interest to secure consulting services for the Uzbekistan Resilient Electricity Transmission Project, funded in part by an AIIB grant. The consultancy will cover technical, environmental, social, climate, economic,...
IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit Scheduled for October in South Carolina
IndustryWeek will host its Operations Leadership Summit in Spartanburg, South Carolina from October 20‑22, 2026. The three‑day event targets owners, plant managers and operations executives, offering workshops, networking and plant tours of BMW’s massive SUV facility and Spartanburg Steel Products....
Mastering The Five Phases Of Transformation
Change initiatives routinely fail, wasting trillions and eroding organizational capacity. Kristy R. Ellmer and co‑authors outline a five‑phase framework—starting, planning, launching, persisting, and ending—to dramatically improve transformation odds. The model stresses active board oversight at each stage, from validating strategy...
Sakana AI Launches "Ultra Deep Research" To Automate Weeks of Strategy Work
Japanese AI startup Sakana AI introduced Sakana Marlin, its first enterprise‑focused product that autonomously researches a topic for up to eight hours and delivers a full written report plus presentation slides. The system combines the company’s AI Scientist, which resolves...
Andersen Consulting Adds Multiplica
Andersen Consulting has signed a collaboration agreement with Multiplica, a Spain‑origin digital consulting firm with operations in Latin America and the United States. The partnership combines Multiplica’s strengths in user research, data analytics, and digital product design with Andersen’s global...
Former P&G Exec Bill Sontag Joins Beasley Media as HR VP
Bill Sontag, a veteran of Procter & Gamble’s human‑resources division with more than three decades of experience, has been appointed Vice President of Human Resources at Beasley Media Group. He previously guided Beasley through a critical transition from TriNet to...
How Clorox Planned Its SAP S/4HANA Transformation — Insights From the CIO
Clorox embarked on a five‑year, $580 million ERP overhaul, migrating to SAP S/4HANA under CIO Chau Banks and Accenture partner Johan Opperman. The program was framed as an enterprise reinvention, emphasizing cross‑functional alignment, phased “waves” that respected seasonality, and a robust change‑network to...
AI Adoption Is Real, but so Is the Change Required - Lessons From an ASUG Talks Podcast with SAP CEO...
SAP CEO Christian Klein told an ASUG Talks podcast that AI is no longer a peripheral technology but a force multiplier demanding wholesale business redesign. Companies are underestimating the scale of change, especially the need for process redesign and data...
CLA Adds Tech Advisory Firm Answerport in Wisconsin
CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) announced the acquisition of Wisconsin‑based tech advisory firm Answerport, marking its first M&A transaction in almost a year. The deal, terms undisclosed, adds Answerport’s expertise in post‑deal IT integration, system carve‑outs, and ongoing operations. Answerport, known for serving...
Bain & Company Appoints Hernan Saenz to Lead Its Global Strategy & Transformation Practice
Bain & Company announced senior partner Hernan Saenz as head of its Global Strategy & Transformation practice. Saenz, who spent more than 25 years at Bain, previously led the Performance Improvement practice, tripling its scale and doubling the Southwest region’s...
How to Onboard a New Member of the Executive Team
The article outlines a systematic approach to onboarding new C‑suite members, arguing that informal briefings are insufficient. It presents a playbook that combines structured briefings, sponsor assignments, and cultural immersion to accelerate executive ramp‑up. The author emphasizes measurable performance goals...
Everest Group Taps Ross Tisnovsky to Lead CIO Practice Expansion
Everest Group has appointed Ross Tisnovsky as a partner to head the expansion of its CIO Research and Advisory practice. Tisnovsky returns after a 12‑year tenure at McKinsey, where he co‑founded the technology‑focused Solution Ignite unit. The move aims to...
5 Practical Ways to Build Truth-Telling Cultures at Work
Recent research shows that organizations with a strong truth‑telling culture can boost financial performance by more than 20%, while 76% of workers say honesty influences their employer choice. Yet only 19% of employees trust that leaders are being truthful, reflecting...
The Improvement Paradox Explained | Webinar
The Improvement Paradox webinar showcases a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by SafetyCulture that reveals a persistent gap between improvement intent and execution in organizations. Speakers Paul Miller and Michael Lung will dissect why improvement stalls, contrast reactive versus integrated approaches,...
Mining Remediation Authority Extends Relationship with CGI
CGI has secured a £20 million (approximately $25 million) contract to support the Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) for up to eight more years, extending a 15‑year partnership. The deal makes CGI the MRA’s strategic delivery partner, responsible for the Enterprise Mining Information...
Productivity Solution: Moen Boosts Throughput with Automated Storage
Moen, a leading North American faucet brand, overhauled its West Coast distribution by consolidating operations into a new Las Vegas hub built with FORTNA. The facility employs an AutoStore high‑density robotic storage system and integrated warehouse execution software to streamline receiving,...
Universities Respond to $1.8bn Consultant Spend
Australian universities spent about AUD 1.8 billion (≈US$1.2 billion) on external consultants in 2024, according to an ABC Four Corners investigation. The spending underpins large‑scale restructures, such as UTS’s plan to cut 340 jobs and 1,000 subjects with KPMG’s help. Critics, including Education...
Organizing for the AI Era: Enterprise AI Organizational Design Framework
The "Organizing for the AI Era" framework offers enterprises a structured blueprint to redesign authority, accountability, and operating models as AI becomes a core capability. It moves beyond literacy and policy, delivering concrete artifacts such as an AI Operating Model...
A Year Into Tariffs, US Businesses See Declining Sales, Plan Price Increases: KPMG Survey
A year after the Trump administration’s tariff wave, KPMG’s February 2026 survey shows U.S. firms facing shrinking margins, higher operational costs and a growing tendency to shift tariff burdens onto customers. Thirty‑four percent of companies now pass more than half of...
AtkinsRéalis to Support Manchester Airports Group Investment Programme
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has engaged AtkinsRéalis under an eight‑year Capital Investment Consultancy Services framework to deliver consultancy, design and programme management across its airport portfolio, including Manchester, East Midlands and London Stansted. The firm will provide cost, health‑and‑safety, operational...
Great Streamlining Starts With Great Alignment
APQC CONNECT 2026 in Houston will showcase how organizations are turning the Bridge‑Streamline‑Flow mantra into measurable results. Speakers from Magna International, Intermountain Health, AWS, and others detailed breakthroughs such as a company‑wide process framework, cross‑functional talent‑acquisition tools, and strategic embedding of knowledge‑management...
How Private Management Improved Public Hospitals in Brazil
Brazil’s Organizações Sociais de Saúde (OSS) model transfers management of public hospitals to private non‑profit operators while keeping public ownership and funding. Using a difference‑in‑differences analysis of all hospitalisations from 2006‑2022, the study finds admissions up about 40%, bed turnover...
Autotrader Deepens Transformation Strategy with Embridge Consulting Through BTaaS Model
Autotrader has expanded its four‑year partnership with Embridge Consulting by signing a three‑year Business Technology as a Service (BTaaS) agreement. The new framework consolidates integration, managed support, advisory and innovation services into a subscription model, moving beyond traditional managed services....
Should Wasabi Technologies Make the Move From Direct Sales to a Channel Strategy?
Wasabi Technologies, a fast‑growing cloud storage startup, has built its revenue engine on a pure direct‑sales model. Founder David, a serial entrepreneur with a music‑tech background, now faces a go‑to‑market dilemma: whether to preserve the simplicity of direct relationships or...
Stop Trying to ‘Educate’ People Into Changing. Science Proves It Doesn’t Work
The article debunks the information‑deficit model, showing that simply providing facts rarely changes entrenched beliefs. Decades of research, from the Semmelweis effect to studies on death‑penalty attitudes, reveal a psychological resistance to contradictory evidence. Instead, behavior shifts are driven by...
Demystifying SAP Business Suite and Cloud ERP with SAP Transformation Leader Anurag Barua
SAP transformation deadlines are tightening as SAP pushes customers toward its cloud‑first Business Suite, with AI increasingly embedded in core processes. Anurag Barua, SAP’s Transformation Leader, explains the suite’s role as a unified digital backbone and clarifies when to adopt...
BGB Group Acquires Hayden Consulting Group to Bolster Market Access and Patient Services
BGB Group announced the acquisition of Hayden Consulting Group, a specialist in market access and patient services, to broaden its Strategic Advisory practice. The deal combines Hayden’s expertise in payer, reimbursement and affordability with BGB’s capabilities across commercial due diligence,...
Report: Fortune 500’s Silent Reset – Why Top Corporations Are Pivoting From Growth to Relentless Efficiency
Fortune 500 companies are abandoning aggressive expansion in favor of disciplined efficiency, as a CEOWORLD survey of 26,000 executives shows hiring freezes, trimmed discretionary spend, and a capital shift toward AI and automation. Boardrooms are tightening budgets and prioritizing margin protection...
Sax Acquires CoMetrics
Sax Advisory Group announced the acquisition of CoMetrics Partners, a boutique consulting and technology firm, expanding its turnaround, profit‑optimization and performance‑analytics services. The deal brings three CoMetrics partners and the entire staff into Sax’s Parsippany, New Jersey headquarters, though financial terms...
Levi’s ERP Overhaul Hits 60% as Retailer Positions for AI-Driven Orchestration
Levi Strauss & Co. has completed about 60% of its global ERP modernization, a cornerstone of its shift toward AI‑driven orchestration and a data‑centric operating model. The overhaul supports the company’s ambition to grow revenue to roughly $10 billion, with direct‑to‑consumer...
Cost of Quality: Not Only Failure Costs
The cost of quality (CoQ) includes both the expenses of fixing defects and the investments needed to prevent them. While the cost of poor quality (COPQ) can eat up 25‑40% of a company’s revenue at a typical three‑sigma performance, prevention...
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Streamline Strategic Planning with AI: Overcome Execution Gaps | ClearPoint Strategy Blog
ClearPoint Strategy launched an AI‑driven platform that automates and centralizes strategic planning, aiming to close the well‑known execution gap that affects roughly 61% of executives. The solution supports more than 20 planning frameworks, integrates with existing software stacks, and links...
EchoData and R. Michael Anderson Announce Strategic Partnership to Drive AI Leadership Transformation in Saudi Arabia
EchoData and leadership expert R. Michael Anderson have formed a strategic partnership to deliver AI leadership, governance, and transformation programs across Saudi Arabia in line with Vision 2030. The collaboration designates EchoData as the exclusive ground‑level partner responsible for client...
Strategy Summit 2026: Inventive Strategy and the ‘Unbossed’ Organization
Harvard Business Review’s Strategy Summit 2026 highlighted a fundamental shift from a physical‑asset, mass‑production economy to one driven by intangibles, digital products and services. Rita McGrath argued that sustainable competitive advantage now requires firms to define a clear strategic “center” and...
Bain & Company Announces Expansion of Lead Global Management Consulting Partnership with Palantir to Bring World Industry-Leading AI Transformation Capabilities...
Bain & Company announced an expanded partnership with Palantir, deepening their collaboration to deliver enterprise AI transformation services. The deal adds Palantir’s AIP and Foundry platforms to Bain’s consulting toolkit, enabling end‑to‑end AI use‑case delivery. Over 1,500 Bain AI, data...
Innovation Proves the Product Works
Dymeka Harrison, a commercialization veteran, argues that breakthrough products alone don’t guarantee lasting companies; adoption hinges on disciplined commercial execution. She cites the 70‑90% startup failure rate as largely driven by underdeveloped commercial foundations. Harrison outlines a holistic commercial system—segmentation,...
PROLIM Expands Global Salesforce, Snowflake, and Industrial AI Capabilities by Rebranding Kasmo Digital
PROLIM announced the rebranding of its recent acquisition, Kasmo Digital, under the PROLIM name, creating a unified global digital‑transformation brand. The move expands PROLIM’s footprint across North America, Europe, India and APAC and adds deep Salesforce and Snowflake consulting expertise...
From Engineering Insight to Industry Transformation: Dr. Lalit Mohan Ranga’s Systems-Driven Vision for Service Industries
Dr. Lalit Mohan Ranga, a doctorate‑trained operational strategist, has applied systems‑thinking and quantitative analysis to overhaul Bayshore Plumbers, a Bay Area service firm. By deploying integrated dashboards, AI‑enabled voice response, and a web‑based operational platform, he boosted revenue from $5.8 million...
Practical Case Study: IT Strategic Planning Framework for Transforming IT From Reactive to Proactive
The case study outlines a practical IT strategic planning framework that shifts IT functions from reactive firefighting to proactive delivery. It integrates quantitative assessments, stakeholder workshops, prioritized roadmaps, and governance into a repeatable discipline. By converting planning into an operational...
7 Strategy Map Templates & Examples for Diverse Industries | ClearPoint Strategy Blog
The ClearPoint Strategy blog outlines seven industry‑specific strategy‑map templates, illustrating how the Balanced Scorecard’s four perspectives can be visualized for manufacturing, airlines, healthcare, hospitals, and municipal governments. Each example shows cause‑and‑effect links that translate high‑level goals into actionable objectives, while...
How Strategic Planning Differs By Industry: 20,582 Plans Analyzed | ClearPoint Strategy Blog
ClearPoint Strategy’s 2026 Strategic Planning Report examined 20,582 plans across seven industries, analyzing 31.2 million data rows. Completion rates vary dramatically, with Energy & Utilities leading at 25.81% and nonprofits lagging at 5.29%. Plan size, team composition, and ownership gaps differ...
DaVinci Commerce, Accenture Announce Global AI Transformation Partnership
DaVinci Commerce has secured a strategic investment from Accenture and launched a global partnership to embed its AI Commerce Experience Platform within Accenture Song’s transformation practice. The deal positions DaVinci’s Agentic BrandStore as an experience layer that converts product data...
3 Levels of Strategy: Corporate, Business, & Functional | ClearPoint Strategy Blog
ClearPoint Strategy’s Ted Jackson explains the three classic levels of strategy—corporate, business‑unit, and functional—and how they interlock like a tree’s trunk, branches, and leaves. He emphasizes that aligning each layer with a unified mission, vision, and measurable objectives drives coherent...
Why Small Process Changes Often Deliver the Biggest Business Results
The article argues that the most impactful business improvements often come from tiny, intentional tweaks rather than sweeping overhauls. Simple adjustments—such as rephrasing a sentence, moving a step earlier, or consolidating repeated decisions—can eliminate hidden friction and free up employee...
Embridge Consulting Named Exclusive UK Public Sector Reseller for Unit4 in Five-Year Agreement
Embridge Consulting has been appointed the exclusive UK public‑sector reseller for Unit4 under a five‑year agreement. The deal pairs Unit4’s AI‑enabled, people‑centric ERP platform with Embridge’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) delivery model to accelerate finance and HR modernization...