Agentic Commerce 2026: Retail AI | Retail and Consumer Products Outlook 2026 | Deloitte Insights
The video introduces "agentic commerce," where AI agents autonomously locate, compare, and purchase products on behalf of consumers. Deloitte surveyed over 330 senior retail executives and combined the findings with market data to gauge how retailers are preparing for this shift, noting that AI‑mediated shopping is already on many 2026 agendas. Executives report that 15%‑20% of referral traffic now comes from AI chat interfaces rather than traditional search or apps, and they expect AI to be embedded in core operational workflows within the next 12‑24 months. The shopping journey is projected to compress, moving directly from intent to purchase via AI, reshaping discovery, decision‑making, and pricing dynamics. A recurring theme is that AI agents will sit between consumers and retailers, evaluating options on price, availability, relevance, and fit. To succeed, retailers must make product, pricing, and inventory data AI‑model ready, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and structured formats. Legacy systems are cited as a major constraint, making clean, connected data architecture essential for scaling agents across pricing, forecasting, service, and marketing. The implications are clear: early adopters will shape how purchases are made and gain influence over brand dynamics, while workforce roles will shift toward overseeing automated decisions and handling exceptions. Retailers that invest now in data readiness and new skill sets will capture competitive advantage as agentic commerce becomes mainstream in 2026.
Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich
The video opens with a World of Warcraft analogy, showing how the elite Team Liquid guild members achieve mastery by devoting 8‑12 hours daily to a single game, and then draws a direct parallel to wealth creation, arguing that financial...
Arts and Science: How Project Management Skills Transfer Across Sectors
Project management blends art and science, a theme explored in a recent podcast where Emma De Vita interviews Josie Harries and Anna Ustynyuk. The hosts discuss how foundational project management skills—planning, risk analysis, and stakeholder communication—remain consistent across vastly different...
Ask Karen Martin Anything: Lean, Operational Excellence, and Leadership (Webinar Preview)
The KEXUS podcast is previewing a March 11, 1 p.m. Eastern “Ask an Expert” webinar featuring lean and operational‑excellence authority Karen Martin. The session will be a live, no‑PowerPoint Q&A where participants can submit questions on topics such as value‑stream mapping, leadership...
Winning the Race to Rewire in 2026: Capturing Operational Advantage
McKinsey senior partners Dan Swan and Ruth Heuss explain that organizations must move beyond isolated technology deployments to achieve end‑to‑end process transformation. They argue that true operational excellence, when rewired for 2026, becomes a sustainable competitive advantage. The conversation highlights...
I Was a CTO Who Spied on My Team. Here's What I Lost.
In a candid video, a former CTO warns that employee‑monitoring software—now a $4.74 billion market projected to grow through 2033—is being deployed by roughly 70 % of large enterprises under the banner of “productivity.” He argues that the tools, which capture keystrokes,...
GA 622 | The State of AI with Steven Remsen
The Gemba Podcast episode features Steve Remsen, a former Intel continuous‑improvement leader, discussing how Lean Six Sigma evolved within a high‑tech environment and how it intersects with emerging AI tools. Remsen recounts his transition from a physicist‑scientist to an enterprise‑wide...
Trust in the Age of Agents
The McKinsey Podcast explores how enterprises can move from experimental AI pilots to deploying thousands of autonomous agents at scale. Rich Isenberg frames agency as a transfer of decision rights, shifting focus from model accuracy to accountability for system actions....
The TRUTH: Top 10 Things to Know About a PM Career
The video outlines the top ten considerations for anyone eyeing a project management career, emphasizing that people‑focus and soft skills are paramount. It highlights the financial upside, noting average PM salaries and the salary lift that certifications such as PMP...
The Secret Behind the Success of Dave's Hot Chicken
The episode features Jim Biddick, newly appointed CEO of Dave's Hot Chicken, discussing the brand’s meteoric rise and its recent acquisition by Roar Capital. He outlines his transition from president to CEO, emphasizes continuity with former CEO Bill Phelps, and...
Adaptability and AI: Staying Relevant | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
The Deloitte 2026 Global Human Capital Trends video argues that today’s workers experience an unprecedented pace of change—averaging fifteen disruptions per year—forcing organizations to rethink how they manage adaptability. The speakers highlight that traditional change‑management and training programs are obsolete; only...
Function Reinvention in the Age of AI | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
The Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2026 video examines how corporate functions—finance, HR, IT—must reinvent themselves in the era of generative and agentic AI. While more than half of surveyed executives report tighter cross‑functional collaboration, they also flag a pressing need...
Orchestration at Speed: Beyond AI Adoption | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2026 report highlights that moving beyond simple AI adoption requires real‑time orchestration of people, skills, data and AI. While 88% of executives acknowledge orchestration’s importance, only 7% report strong progress. The study contrasts merely layering...
AI Trust and Data Integrity in Hiring | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2026 spotlights AI‑driven hiring, warning that executives are increasingly uneasy about the authenticity of workforce data. The report finds 95% of leaders doubt the accuracy of candidates’ skill information, and nearly half say AI‑based talent...
AI ROI and Human-Machine Collaboration | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2026 highlights that AI return on investment hinges on redesigning work, not merely deploying technology. The firm introduces a 3R framework—Reimagine, Return, and Redesign—to move organizations from proof‑of‑concept pilots to enterprise‑scale adoption. Executives are urged...
The Human Advantage in the Age of AI | Global Human Capital Trends 2026 | Deloitte Insights
Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2026 report highlights the growing imperative for enterprises to treat the human advantage as a board‑level priority. It urges leaders to shift the narrative from “humans plus machines” to “humans times machines,” unlocking exponential value...
Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale on Paying Millions for Top Tech Talent
Joe Lonsdale, co‑founder of Palantir, reflects on how recruiting for tech talent has transformed from modest signing bonuses to multi‑million‑dollar offers, driven largely by AI‑enhanced talent identification. He notes that in 2008‑2009 firms like Facebook and Google began handing out $150,000...
Leadership Behaviors That Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement
The webinar, hosted by Kexus VP of Innovation Mark Graven and co‑founder Dr. Greg Jacobson, explored the leadership habits needed to embed a culture of continuous improvement in any organization, from hospitals to manufacturing firms. They framed Kaizen not as...
How Workplace Networks Evolve During Mergers and Acquisitions
The Ripple Effect podcast episode examines new research from Wharton assistant professor Tianyang on how workplace social networks shift during mergers and acquisitions, with a focus on gender‑specific responses. By studying referral patterns among physicians, the study reveals that men...
Short Range Strategy
The podcast episode tackles the emergence of "short‑term strategy," arguing that today’s planning horizon has collapsed from ten‑year visions to six‑month sprints. Hosts Pat Lynch and Cody Thompson trace this shift from their consulting days, noting that even five‑year plans...
How Coinbase Scaled AI to 1,000+ Engineers | Chintan Turakhia
Coinbase engineering leader Chintan Turakhia says the company has successfully scaled AI across a 1,000+ engineer organization to boost velocity and rebuild a major consumer-facing app under an aggressive six- to nine-month timeline. Adoption succeeded after leadership became hands-on with...
How A Free Bottle Of Whiskey Built A Billion Dollar Brand (The Jack Daniel's Story)
Jack Daniel's century-old practice of giving every employee a free 375ml bottle on the first Friday of each month began with founder Jasper “Jack” Daniel as a gesture of gratitude and evolved into a core cultural ritual. The video links...
James Kellet Interview: Experience on Introducing Tech Solution Into a Traditional Industry
James Kellet discusses how a traditionally stubborn shipping sector is finally opening to technology, recounting his early attempts to replace manual Excel sheets and leather notebooks with digital tools. He notes that the industry’s reputation for being "stodgy" is rapidly...
Why Culture Beats Technology | Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller, co‑founder of Coursera, argues that culture, not technology, is the primary driver of lasting organizational performance. She recounts an early interview where a senior candidate asked, “What would you like the culture here to be?” prompting her realization that...
Mastering Market Leadership - Strategic Insights for Senior Managers Webinar Recording February 2026
The webinar introduced Alliance Manchester Business School’s executive education portfolio, highlighting a series of four‑day short courses designed for senior managers to sharpen leadership capabilities and earn a professional diploma in leadership. The flagship offering, "Unlocking Strategic Competitive Advantage," scheduled...
Should Scrum Masters Lead the Charge with AI?
The video asks who should lead AI adoption in agile organizations, suggesting Scrum Masters could fill that gap. It argues Scrum Masters are uniquely positioned to champion AI, translating technical possibilities into team practices while product owners remain focused on market‑driven...
The FP&A Guide to Proactively Managing Spend
During a recent FP&A webinar, Paul Barnhurst and ApprovalMax’s corporate controller Rafaella Torres explained that spend problems originate from poor underlying data rather than the expenditures themselves. They highlighted how delayed visibility and incomplete inputs lead to forecast errors and...
Rebranding, Letting Go, and Other Terrifying Lawyer Decisions
The Lawyers Podcast episode focuses on how small law firms can break the "family" myth, establish measurable standards, and strategically rebrand to enable growth and eventual exit. Hosts discuss the pitfalls of vague accountability, emphasizing the need for defined job descriptions,...
The Most Powerful AI Agent I’ve Ever Used in My Life
The video introduces "agentic AI," a new class of AI agents that can autonomously execute multi‑step workflows, unlike static chat models such as ChatGPT. Dan Martell demonstrates how to select the right agentic tools—including Claude, Gemini, Zapier, Make, Manus, and...
How a French Skier Built a 2,000-Person Sales Team | Patriots vs Mercenaries with Cedric Pech
The Revenue Builders podcast revisits Cedric Pech’s journey from French downhill skier to MongoDB’s CRO, where he now oversees a 2,000‑person global sales organization spanning direct, cloud, partner and customer‑success teams across 35 countries. Pech explains that moving from a regional...
Management Diaries: Rebuilding the Multifamily Maintenance Workforce | Cerwin Thompson & Avery Rouse
The Management Diaries episode spotlights a growing crisis in multifamily maintenance: an aging, retiring cohort and a new generation that often lacks the technical chops or work ethic needed for today’s increasingly complex properties. Hosts Kerwin Thompson, VP of Facilities...
Consulting Vs. Software: Who Wins the IT Budget War? #shorts
The IT spending landscape is rapidly shifting, with organizations allocating more budget to software solutions than to traditional consulting services. Automation and artificial intelligence are accelerating this transition, enabling enterprises to implement scalable tools without extensive human advisory. As AI-driven...
Your Best Sales Manager Can't Teach This (And Science Explains Why)
The video explains Polanyi's paradox, which states that people often know more than they can verbalize, and shows how this hidden expertise hampers sales training. Top sales managers close deals intuitively but struggle to articulate their methods, creating a knowledge...
The 10x Organization: Redesigning for the AI Era with Org Topologies
The podcast introduces Org Topologies as a framework for redesigning enterprises in the AI era, positioning it as a language for visualizing how value moves from concept to cash. Host Dave West and authors Alexi Kichki and Roland Flem explain...
What Is Test-Driven Development? TDD Explained for PMs
The video introduces test‑driven development (TDD) as a methodology where developers write automated tests before any production code, positioning the test as the definition of done rather than a post‑hoc quality check. It walks through the classic red‑green‑refactor loop: a failing...
How NASA Organized the Moonshot
The video explains how NASA’s 1958 moon‑shot was organized, focusing on the rapid creation of the agency by merging three distinct government bodies and the external consulting role McKinsey played in shaping its structure. McKinsey was tasked with turning three disparate...
Supreme Court Tariffs Ruling and Business Impact | Economic Update | Deloitte Insights
The U.S. Supreme Court this week nullified a series of tariffs imposed under the Emergency Powers Act (EPO), ruling that the administration’s claim of a “persistent trade deficit” did not meet the legal standard for a national emergency. The decision opens...
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei on the Power of Tough Feedback
Axios co‑founder Jim VandeHei explains that tough feedback is a strategic gift that fuels a high‑performance media operation. He walks through how to solicit candid input, warns against defensive reactions, and outlines a clear, behavior‑focused method for delivering feedback. A...
AI Giants: Who Will Capture the BILLION Dollar Market? #shorts
Enterprise software providers are increasing technology spend to keep pace with a rapidly evolving SaaS landscape. The surge is driven by the need to support large‑scale AI models from firms such as Anthropic. While demand for compute and data pipelines...
Artist Managers on Music Videos, Artist Development, Long-Term Strategy and True Fandom
In a candid conversation on the "New Music Business" podcast, host Arian sits down with Slush Management co‑founders Neil O’Conor and Aaron Green to unpack how modern artist managers navigate a fragmented industry. The discussion centers on the firm’s philosophy—following...
Bridget McCormack on Customer and Business Impact at the American Arbitration Association
Bridget McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, outlined how AI‑driven innovation has reshaped the organization’s service model. Strategic transformation initiatives accelerated case processing, enhanced client outcomes, and generated measurable financial gains. The changes illustrate how a century‑old...
HR People Pod – Ep 43: Inside Davos – AI, Work and the Future of Identity - with Allyn Bailey
In the Davos 2026 session hosted by the World Economic Forum, HR leaders examined how artificial intelligence is transitioning from a tool to core infrastructure that reshapes work. Allyn Bailey of SmartRecruiters argued that organizations must move beyond merely layering...
Bridget McCormack on Avoiding “Pilot Purgatory” At American Arbitration Association
Bridget McCormack explains how the American Arbitration Association (AAA) sidesteps the dreaded “pilot purgatory” by embedding experimentation within a formal, funded innovation platform. The organization treats every new concept as a candidate in a structured funnel, moving ideas from ad‑hoc...
Bridget McCormack on American Arbitration Association’s Partnership with QuantumBlack for Impact
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced a strategic partnership with QuantumBlack, the advanced analytics arm of McKinsey, to co‑develop an AI‑driven arbitrator platform. The collaboration builds on three years of internal AI experimentation across case management, legal, engineering, and marketing...
Process and Performance Management Priorities & Challenges for 2026
APQC’s 2026 Process and Performance Management research highlights shifting priorities as organizations grapple with emerging technologies and heightened demand for measurable outcomes. The on‑demand webinar, led by Madison Lundquist, outlines how firms are reallocating focus across process management, continuous improvement,...
Ask a Better Question: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy | Core Message
The video distills the central premise of Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy’s book “Who Not How,” urging professionals to replace the question “How can I achieve this?” with “Who can help me achieve this?” This mental shift reframes obstacles as...
Finance Trends 2026: Can AI Be a Force for Good in Corporate Sustainability?
Deloitte’s Finance Trends 2026 report projects AI‑driven efficiencies could shave roughly 12,000 terawatt‑hours from global energy use and generate up to $500 billion in annual cost savings by 2050. While AI’s current electricity demand is high, the analysis argues that its...
Turn Learning Into Action With Kure
The video introduces CURE, a dedicated project workspace designed to bridge the gap between Lean Six Sigma theory and real‑world execution. It positions the tool as the next logical step after learners have defined problems, identified waste, and explored root...
Why AI Won’t Wipe Out White-Collar Jobs | The Economist
The Economist’s video tackles the hot question of whether artificial intelligence will eradicate white‑collar work. Host Rosie and analyst Alex argue that, rather than a job apocalypse, AI is more likely to transform office roles into human‑machine hybrids. Recent labor data...
Platform Engineering ROI: Everything You Need to Know
The video tackles the perennial funding challenge faced by platform engineering teams: proving return on investment. It argues that ROI should be framed not as a simple cost‑vs‑savings equation, but as a measurable shift in developer behavior, delivery speed, and...