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The Strategy Pulse | May 2026: The Execution Gap
Welcome to May's Strategy Pulse. For the past two years, strategy has been dominated by one question: are you using AI? Boards asked it. Investors asked it. Consultants made good money helping people answer it. But a different question is starting to matter more: can you actually deliver on what you've planned?
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Research and Insight Review – May 2026
The market isn't broken, but it is changing shape. Here's what's actually happening in the insights and strategy hiring space right now, and what it means if you're in it.
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The Sharp End Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s teams Edition 8 — May 2026
Last month we looked at the integrator: the strategist who creates value by connecting functions that weren't designed to speak to each other. This month, a harder question. If that kind of work is increasingly where the value sits — lateral, relational, cross-functional — why does it so rarely appear on a job title, a pay band, or a performance review?
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The Sharp End – Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s team – Edition 7 — April 2026
Last month we looked at where power is moving in AI-accelerated organisations: away from information holders, toward those who can align functions around a shared direction. This month, a natural question follows. If alignment is the new currency, who actually does that work — and what does it take? The answer is increasingly: the strategist as integrator.
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The Sharp End — Edition 6: March 2026
✍️ Editor’s Note Power Didn’t Disappear. It Moved. Over the past two months, we’ve talked about leverage and visibility. But visibility alone doesn’t guarantee influence. To understand what 2026 demands of strategists, researchers and insight leaders, we need to look at something bigger:
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Research and Insight Review – February 2026
From the rise of AI explainability to the return of ‘old school qual,’ here’s what’s been shaping the insight space this month.
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The Sharp End —Edition 5 February 2026
The Visibility Gap. Why good strategists stay invisible and what it’s quietly costing them Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s teams
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✨ Research and Insight Review – Jan 2026
New year, new insights! With hiring kicking off, budgets locked in, and strategic ambition running high, here’s what we’re seeing across the research and insight world as 2026 gets underway.
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The Sharp End — Edition 4 January 2026
New Year, New Leverage Skills, stories & signals shaping tomorrow’s teams. January often arrives carrying an expectation of clarity. Clear goals. Clear plans. Clear answers about what comes next. But after three months exploring retrainability, AI literacy, and human advantage, one thing feels increasingly clear precisely because the noise has settled: the market hasn’t become easier...but it has become more legible. Read on!