I have known Frans de Groot for a long time. My brother worked for him at his creative bureau over thirty years ago. Even then, Frans was talking about the marketing methodology he’d built, called BITS. It scarred me for life. Ever since, I have queried the connection between marketing and sales. Most marketers still […]
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For decades, companies have treated sales and marketing as separate functions that somehow need to be “aligned”.AI is making that distinction harder to defend. A recent Harvard Business Review article argues that AI is starting to blur the line between the two, connecting activities across the customer journey. Start with the sale Years ago, I
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Your AI agents are only as good as your data governance As I explore in Stop Predicting: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Dark Data Emerges as Agentic AI Bottleneck AI systems in the average large organisation can access just 45% of company data. The rest
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An overview of the digital transformation #mindcandy in July 2026: AI welfare is a governance question now. Models act agentic and appear conscious. Policies on testing, control, and treatment aren’t optional anymore. Cognitive debt accumulates. Output rises. Judgement, creativity, and the ability to explain a conclusion quietly erode. AI lock-in is organisational lock-in. Dependency lives
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AI agents. Semantic infrastructure. Tactile robots. Wearables. Brain-computer interfaces. Programmable biology. 3D printing. Superintelligence. But they pointed to the same underlying issue: Organisations are gaining technological capability while losing the ability to understand, challenge, and control what they are becoming. That is the real strategic risk. AI is becoming infrastructure AI is moving beyond productivity
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. 86% Of Enterprises Have Deployed AI Agents. Just 34% Trust Them Organisations are giving AI agents increasing authority to act, decide, communicate and
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I have always been obsessed with organisational design. I think organisational design eats culture . Culture is too slow. Form always follows function. And something larg is happening in the world of organisational design. Every organisation is quietly growing a second nervous system: a synthetic layer of software that does not simply wait to be
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Agentic AI security: Governing shadow agents on endpoints Many agents were never sanctioned by IT or security. They were installed by individual employees, spun up in development environments, or deployed via Model
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You can’t predict the future, but you can build the fitness to respond to it. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your leadership team can notice and anticipate change and respond. Hence mind candy — an information stream to help you and your team think about what’s next. Meta researchers introduce ‘hyperagents’ to unlock
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