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From gut feel to ground truth: How AI is reshaping the in-store experience

In-store events represent one of retail's most significant investments and one of its least-interrogated planning processes. Most brands approach activation strategy the same way t...

Partner Insight: What on-the-ground research reveals that the numbers can't

What Data Can't Tell You (But a Conversation Can)

Candid insights are unlikely to come from surveys and AI answers. Small, in-person gatherings — advisory boards, executive dinners, and customer councils — generate fresh findings....

Your AI passed internal testing. That doesn't mean it's ready.

What Perlego learned when real users stress-tested their AI before launch. Every product team shipping a GenAI feature runs the same playbook. Internal dogfooding. Prompt testing....

14 Voice of Customer Examples: Real Programs by Industry

TL;DR Running a VoC program and running a useful one are different things. The gap shows up in what happens after the responses arrive. Every strong example here follows the...

Why seeing it in action matters: Making smarter decisions with a demo

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Management education needs to move into the real world

Navigating the 21st Century Business World by Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper demonstrates the value of delivering management education through real-world examples rather than...

AI Worldviews

The Economist scored 25 frontier AI models on the World Values Survey. Lab of origin is a weaker predictor than training & alignment choices : Gemini & Qwen are neighbors,...

Every Organization Has Two Realities

<p>In the July 6, 2026, edition of <em>The Insider</em>, managing editor Gretchen Gavett highlights the growing gap between the company leaders think they run and...

Partner Insight: Three key insights from Fidelity's Annual Silicon Valley Trip

The AI Perception-Reality Gap

There’s a widening gap between what the market says about AI and what we actually hear from customers. The media, the VCs, the AI labs, and influencers have all talked about AI rep...

The AI credibility gap is real

Lately, I’ve seen a specific pattern emerge as organizations make AI claims. “We’re AI-first.” “We’re AI-native.” “We’re agentic.” The language is confident, forward-looking, and n...

Before You Build The AI Module: How To Actually Sit With A Worker In Their Workflow

What one good afternoon of watching a finishing tech or a parts-counter rep actually involves: where to stand, why the clipboard stays in the car, the questions that get you nothin...

Why authentic perspectives matter more as AI generates more content

A thought struck me recently while reading about thought leadership and seeing the endless discussions around AI. Many people assume thought leadership is about having the perfect...

How Real Data Engineers Think (Beyond Tools and Hype)

with — Yordan Ivanov

10 Consumer Insights Trends

Discover the latest consumer insights trends shaping the market landscape. Explore ten key trends that reveal changing consumer behaviors, preferences, and expectations, empowering...

Leveraging Global Consumer Insights for Market Success

Unlock the potential of your business with our comprehensive guide on leveraging global consumer insights for market success. Discover strategies to understand diverse consumer beh...

The Gap Between What AI Vendors Promise and What Enterprise Buyers Actually Get

I want to describe something I have watched happen repeatedly enough that it qualifies as a pattern. An organization goes through a thorough AI procurement process. They see demos....

Why Real-World Evidence Is Becoming the Missing Link Between Innovation and Patient Care in Oncology

Organizations that can generate and apply high-quality, clinically grounded evidence will be better positioned to close the gap between what is proven in trials and what is achieve...

Lightfield Just Assembled a Working CRM Live On Stage, Then Unstuck a Stalled Deal in 3 Minutes

Most CRM demos are in the end … theater. Clean data, scripted clicks, a happy path that conveniently never breaks. Lightfield founder Keith Peiris did the opposite. He ran the whol...

What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance

Presented by F5Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption...

Determining the "Meaningful Outside" of Your Organization

Learn to determine the potential effects on your organization from competitors, customers, worldwide events, science and technology, and education.

User Focus Overview: Understanding Users

Somewhere between bulk demographic analyses and detailed anthropological studies lasting months or years lies the important and challenging area of user research. It’s challenging...

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