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Adapting to AI's Evolving Landscape: A Survival Guide for Businesses
After decades of pursuing web-optimization strategies that encouraged high-volume content generation, many businesses are now feeling that their content-marketing strategies might be backfiring.
Most business turnarounds fail. Here's why the best ones cut to strength
As companies look to successfully achieve a corporate turnaround, success or failure depends on the speed of their actions and the depth of commitment from leadership. Without aligned governance and adequate funding, even well-intentioned change efforts can stall before delivering results.
Layoffs Are The Easy Way Out: There Are Smarter paths To Cost Discipline
Amidst strong economic headwinds and the demonstrated potential of AI, business leaders face growing pressure to preserve margins and demonstrate financial discipline — a goal they're increasingly accomplishing through workforce reductions. One in five major U.S. companies currently employs fewer people than they did a decade ago.
The End of SEO: How AI Is Forcing a New Digital Strategy
The rollout of Google’s AI search function has led to a significant decline in web traffic, making it even more challenging for businesses to manage their online presence. The rise of large language model AIs is transforming how internet users discover information, forcing organizations to reorient their digital strategy approach towards truly owning their relationships with their customers and visitors.
Post-Merger Priorities: How Boards Like Kroger's Can Lead Through Market Uncertainty
Failed mergers create perfect storms of executive departures, talent flight and investor lawsuits, but they also offer strategic reset opportunities. Using Kroger’s post-Albertsons crisis as a case study, Alvarez & Marsal’s Conor Johnston maps the three-pronged approach boards need to transform regulatory setbacks into competitive repositioning.
Balancing strategic tradeoffs and leadership transparency during challenging transformations
A difficult economic environment has put pressure on companies to operate in a new era of financial discipline. Whether driven by economic volatility, competitive pressures or the need to free up capital for new investments, businesses are tightening their belts and making hard choices about costs, resources and priorities.
Ditch Your Growth Obsession And Focus On Profit
The era of relentless corporate expansion has ended, exposed by rising interest rates and technological disruption—a shift that’s undermined the growth-at-all-costs mentality that shaped corporate America over the last decade. Survival now demands that companies ruthlessly prioritize profitability, strategic focus and sustainable financial management over blind expansion, changing the rules for successful CEOs.
Your website isn't dead - but AI is changing what it needs to win
AI is rapidly reshaping how people discover and evaluate companies online, fundamentally altering the rules for what makes a website succeed. To stand out in this new era, organisations must begin to gear their strategy toward the AI models that will recognise and recommend them.
Going Nuclear: Why AI Will Lead the Next Energy Transition
As policies and regulations are adjusted to reflect a new presidential administration, the U.S. needs to unleash its full energy potential by embracing nuclear power. With opinions and regulations historically slow to adjust, the impetus for nucl...
Climate Preparedness: From Crisis Springs Opportunity
While climate change may not be a priority for the new presidential administration, r...
Are Bill Gates' energy expectations for AI optimism or realism?
As both a major funder of climate change initiatives as well as one of the largest economic beneficiaries of Open AI, Bill Gates' claim that climate-focused concerns of AI energy usage are being overblown has been understandably met with some s...
How CEOs Should Handle Big Bets That Fail
Apple has quietly closed the book on its autonomous car project, having spent almost a decade and several billion dollars on the effort. But Apple’s failure with its big bet shouldn’t scare CEOs away from high profile gambles: rather, it underscores the importance of ensuring that big, ambitious projects align tightly with the company’s vision, mission and capabilities.
The clock is ticking on ESSER funds
Superintendents in the middle of the budget-setting process need to be aware: with the ESSER Funds soon to go away, reporting, supplementing, and storytelling their pandemic-related expenses will be key for longterm student success.
Can Companies Under Anti-Trust Scrutiny Keep The Earnings Growth Coming?
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are ensnared in antitrust lawsuits, and it looks like more are on the way. Can tech companies manage to ke...
Reputation Repair: The Potential and Limits of Boeing's Next CEO
Boeing is replacing its current CEO amidst apparent systemic issues with its manufacturing process and a steadily declining stock price. The job of the next CEO will be to steer the badly off-cou...
Your View: Shapiro plan would move Pa. economy into the future, protect the environment, not doom them
Gov. Josh Shapiro's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania by cracking down on energy companies has drawn ire from the industry and some members of the Legislature, who have called it a "disaster" and a "gift" to...
No Noncompete Clauses? What Does That Look Like?
The FTC's decision to ban noncompete clauses created huge waves in the business community when it was announced last month.
While the react...
Climate Tantrums: Protests Need More Than Soup To Stir Change
Soup throwing has become the protest du jour of climate activists whose attacks on works like Da Vinci's Mona Lisa...
How to Extract Game-Changing Innovations from Your Team
As Apple shutters its plans for a self-driving car, investors (and certainly Apple leadership) are curious about where the company's next big bet will come from. With the speed of innovation rapidly increasing across the market, companies like...
Global Warming Movement Needs Its Own Sane, Donald Trump
With John Kerry stepping down from his role leading the USA's climate policy, it's time for a new guard to step into the spotlight. But, in the face of an increasingly dire climate outlook, the climate movement needs a leader who is unafraid to...