The most strategically demanding holiday in years. Growth will stay positive, but it will be won on execution — not created by demand. The 2026 season is defined by persistent value-seeking, widening consumer income divergence, AI-enabled shopping, and continued margin pressure. Click here to view the Executive Briefing.
AI does not admire heritage, appreciate beautiful advertising, or experience your store. Instead, it builds a statistical representation of your company by synthesizing millions of digital signals across the internet. The quality of that understanding depends almost entirely on the consistency, clarity, and structure of your digital footprint. Click here to view the Executive Briefing.
Retail and consumer CEOs consistently rank generative AI among their highest capital-allocation priorities. CEOs now expect the growth rate of AI investment to more than double over the next two years. Yet investment alone has not produced transformation — pilots are plentiful, enterprise-wide impact is rare. Click here to view the Executive briefing.
The funnel is giving way to a network. For half a century, retailers organized marketing, merchandising, commerce, and experience around one idea: a predictable journey from awareness to loyalty. That framework is becoming obsolete. Artificial intelligence is changing how customers discover products, weigh alternatives, and decide — shifting from a linear funnel to dynamic, AI-mediated experiences where intelligent systems help manage the purchase. Click here to read the Executive Briefing.
The model that built brands is being rewritten. For over a decade, social media followed one model: brands created content, algorithms distributed it, and consumers consumed it. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing that equation. Click here to read the Executive Briefing.
How Retailers Are Building AI-Ready Organizations Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail — yet the retailers seeing the greatest return are not simply deploying new technologies. They are fundamentally redesigning how their organizations operate. Click here to view the executive brief.
A structural shift comparable to the arrival of search engines — or social media is happening now. A generation of digital strategy answered exactly one question: “How do we rank first in search?” But the next decade asks a different question: “When AI recommends a solution, does it recommend our company?” Click here to read the executive brief.
Choosing investments in AI that pay off Some initiatives deliver ROI within months; others burn millions on impressive demos. The difference lies in choosing problems naturally suited for AI. The next generation of competitive advantage will belong not to organizations deploying the most AI — but to those deploying it in the highest-return areas first. Click on this link to view Executive Briefing
Welcoming Giancarlo Portale AI Strategy & Workflow Automation Specialist
The New Retail Intelligence Race Artificial intelligence has moved from experimental novelty to competitive necessity. While most retailers run basic chatbots, a select group of leaders has gone far further — embedding predictive analytics, generative AI, autonomous agents, and computer vision across the entire business. AI Leaders in Retail Executive Briefing - Click here to view