Building AI Strategy, Making Culture Tangible, Maximizing ROI From AI, and More

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Only Good AI Strategy Turns Promise Into Reality. Here’s How to Build One.

AI strategy can’t be set and frozen — nor seen and executed in isolation.

AI has the potential to transform markets, business models and competitive landscapes. To succeed, your AI strategy must be dynamic, evolving alongside your business priorities, market trends and the risk landscape.

More specifically, alignment between AI and business strategy must be bidirectional. Business goals shape your AI agenda, but emerging AI capabilities can — and should — influence business direction. This approach is critical to moving beyond the pedestrian use of AI and realizing its value as a game changer.

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How CHROs Can Make Culture Tangible Every Day

Drive change toward the culture you want.

Fostering culture is a top priority for CHROs heading into 2026, but nearly one in three admit they’re unsure how to drive meaningful change. The challenge? Making organizational culture real — not just aspirational. 

Gartner insights show that organizations embedding culture into employees’ daily work see up to a 34% boost in performance and a 63% increase in engagement. To achieve this, CHROs must move beyond slogans and surveys to make values visible in everyday actions and decisions.

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5 Steps CFOs Can Take to Maximize ROI From AI Initiatives

As AI integration becomes mainstream, CFOs are facing a reality check on ROI.

Nearly three in five finance teams are piloting or fully implementing AI use cases — and two-thirds of CFOs say they’re more optimistic about AI’s value than a year ago. However, many CFOs also acknowledge a major gap between AI vision and reality: Only 7% of finance leaders see a high impact from their AI use cases. That, along with wildly inaccurate AI cost estimates and high overruns, could lead to abandonment of more than half of AI pilots over the next few years.

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Don’t Delay in Building Preemptive Cybersecurity Solutions

Why preemptive cybersecurity solutions are key in the AI race.

AI puts cyberattacks in overdrive. Traditional detection-and-response cybersecurity methods can’t keep up with the surging threats from bad actors leveraging AI. Preemptive cybersecurity solutions defend more effectively within the emerging global attack-surface grid against these more sophisticated AI-enabled attackers.

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Stop “Managing” Organizational Change. Do This Instead.

The real differentiator is how you help your organization adapt — not just react.

Across industries, organizations are contending with overlapping pressures: digital acceleration, AI adoption, sustainability mandates and evolving workforce expectations, to name just a few. Change is no longer episodic or neatly contained within a single initiative. Instead, it has become a continuous condition — one that calls for new mindsets and approaches to leadership.

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