PacSun’s story is a good reminder that customer closeness requires more than listening | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
Adding AI to the software development workflow is becoming the easy part | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
Here’s one thing that’s easy to miss about AI-driven shopping: retailers may still own the transaction, but they may no longer o… | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
In an agentic HR model, humans could spend roughly half their time on strategic engagement and innovation, compared with 15% tod… | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
The next phase of humanoid robotics will be defined by what happens outside the pilot | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
AI adoption can move quickly, but trust takes much longer to build—and social impact organizations can’t afford to lose it | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
With agentic AI, leaders can’t always define the end state upfront—the technology and the work are evolving together | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
A 1% margin improvement can sound modest—until it’s applied to a $600 million business | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
The demand for AI skills is showing up across more jobs, industries, and wage groups than you might expect | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
Americans may have more in common about what a better life looks like than today’s conversations suggest | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
Powering a 100-megawatt AI data center can cost nearly twice as much in London as in China, about $380 versus $200 per megawatt-… | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
The value of AI-powered robotics will depend on where companies apply it | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
There’s a reason some gigafactory projects move from construction to production in 18–24 months while others fall behind: execut… | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
There’s a bigger organizational question behind HR automation: what should people spend their time doing when technology can han… | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
As AI changes how we work, some distinctly human skills may become even more valuable | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
For companies scaling beyond $1 billion, the right partnerships can unlock capabilities, customers, and distribution that might … | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
Many founder-led companies stall between $1 billion and $10 billion in valuation | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
AI is helping FP&A move from reporting what happened to acting on what’s changing | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
What if the knowledge from every construction project could make the next one smarter? | Umid Ali | Aza Ali | Ahmad
