Commercial insight for mobile, retail and membership leaders.
Practical articles on customer value in mobile, margin in retail, member renewal in membership organisations, and how to tell whether an AI investment is worth making before you make it.
Four subjects, written for the people who own the commercial result.
Mobile customer economics
Customer lifetime contribution, avoidable churn, retention incentives and the decisions that determine whether mobile operators create or lose customer value.
Retail margin and promotions
Promotional profitability, trading contribution, discounts, cannibalisation and returns, and whether retail sales growth creates profit.
Membership value and renewal
Member engagement, renewal, avoidable lapses and the economics of membership growth, in organisations where the mission matters as much as the margin.
The economics of commercial AI
How to find worthwhile opportunities, redesign the work, build a credible investment case and measure the financial result, with AI that is secure, governed and connected across the organisation.
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Board-Level Transformation Risks
Read →: Board-Level Transformation RisksInsight · Retail and consumer 11 Hidden Costs Quietly Undermining Retail Transformation Retail transformation costs are visible. Retail transformation complexity is not — and complexity is where the…
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AI ROI Governance Failures
Read →: AI ROI Governance FailuresInsight · Software and SaaS 8 Fragmentation Patterns Limiting Mid-Market Software Growth Revenue scales faster than the way the business is organised around customers. The gap only becomes…
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Why Transformation Programmes Fail
Read →: Why Transformation Programmes FailInsight · AI governance 9 Signs Your AI Programme Is Creating Governance Risk Instead of Value The programme reports green. The risk is accumulating anyway, in the gap…
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AI Readiness Gaps for UK Boards
Read →: AI Readiness Gaps for UK BoardsInsight · AI returns 7 Governance Failures Quietly Undermining AI Returns The spend is real and the capability works. The return is rarely defensible, because nothing was set…
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Customer Profitability Operational Risks
Read →: Customer Profitability Operational RisksInsight · AI readiness 12 AI Readiness Gaps Boards Are Beginning to Question The questions have changed. A year ago boards asked what you were doing about AI.…
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ERP Modernisation Failure Risks
Read →: ERP Modernisation Failure RisksInsight · Transformation delivery 9 Reasons Transformation Programmes Fail After Approval The board said yes to a set of outcomes. What gets delivered is a set of capabilities.…
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