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The new Friday night - no-one "owns" the customer

What is the new modality of a Friday night? We consider this emerging Customer Context, why it's more than advertising+, the players, the model and how Boards can position to thrive. Plus a 🐓 and 🐷.
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Border Control at the AI Frontier: A Reality Check on Who Owns AI
Anthropic pulled its Fable 5 advanced model three days after launch, under instruction from the US government. Commerce, sovereignty and capability…
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RetailDNA — and why it is also CommerceDNA
Twenty years of watching retail perform, underperform, and occasionally astonish — distilled into a framework for anyone who needs their business to…
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The 'health hub economy' - where effort becomes identity, community and commerce...
Starting with Strava, and widening to food, pets, kit, medical, travel and audiobooks, we'll consider how the health ecosystem is a cross-sector…
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The"Compressed Economy" - what airports reveal of the post-sectoral customer context
The airport’s commercial models, customer experience and unique setting make it one of the clearest illustrations of the post-sector commerce world at…
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AI: solvent and accelerant on the route to a CustomerX world
Separate sectors in D2C commerce were bridged by data exchange, commerce media and API-first platforms. AI at once dissolves the remaining membranes and…
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World View AI
True agentic AI capability won't happen while LLMs and word-based AI leads the charge. We need 'world view' models to allow action in space-time …
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Me, Myself, I - a question of identity for agentic and sovereign AI
Proving identity used to be giving "just enough assurance" to mitigate the risk of a transaction. Agentic AI demands an improved notion of 'who is the…
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Sovereign AI - a holiday example
With family road-trip in progress, a worked example of Agentic and Sovereign AI to show the differences. The question isn't how AI can help, but rather…
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Agentic AI in Retail: True Agency Requires Customer Sovereignty
The Current State: Efficiency Disguised as Agency. When will the value switch to the consumer, rather than the seller? A mono-post this week on whether…
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In No Particular Order from Ian Jindal
In No Particular Order from Ian Jindal
Slower-news updates from my research into digital retail, purposeful and sustainability business, consumer culture and craft. In No Particular Order.
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