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How agents unlock new markets
This post is Part 2 of a series titled Agents, and their better half. You can read Part 1 here.
Walmart’s ability to manage its vast supplier network is one of its greatest competitive strengths, but has also so far been a source of consid...
Agents - and their better half
Over the past few weeks, a new class of solutions is taking shape: a market-facing representative of the consumer.
Muse and Instinct - consumer-side AI agents - can search, evaluate and eventually transact on your behalf.
This seems like...
How agents transform the workflow, the organization, and the competitive landscape
Much of today’s discussion about agentic commerce focuses on whether shopping will move from e-commerce websites into interfaces such as ChatGPT.
But in consumer commerce, much of the buying journey has already been solved reasonably well...
Strategy in the age of AI - Eight points beyond the obvious
What happens when AI changes not only how companies compete, but the very game they are competing in?
In this conversation, Rita McGrath and I - guided by the always-insightful Aidan McCullen - bring together complementary ideas from the b...
Scarcity and strategy - Misreading AI the way Hollywood misread streaming
Traditional TV programming was built around a scarce asset - prime-time slots.
A network had twenty-four hours in a day, a handful of prime-time slots, and far more shows than it could have on air. The programmer’s job was therefore to dec...
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