In No Particular Order from Ian Jindal

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“When should I think?” How to apply experience and ‘CAKE’ with your AI

Slopmageddon. The allure of a polished, rapid response. But when should we do the thinking ourselves? How do we apply accumulated knowledge and experience? CAKE is the answer.
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"Shearing layers" - ONS' AI business adoption data and the shearing forces in retail
Retail's adopted AI widely but shallowly, where it's cheapest to touch and easiest to reverse. Confidence and satisfaction decline the further we get…
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Belonging and identity: "placemaking" and cross-sector opportunities
Why the strongest places are not built from shops, offices or events alone, but from identity, culture and patient capital. What role are you playing?
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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…
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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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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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