Growth insights
for what’s next.

The gap between what AI enables and what your innovation and growth plan assumes is where the next bet is. These stories help you find it and act on it.

Philippe De Ridder, Board of Innovation founder and CEO and founder of AUTONOMOUS.
Sep 29, 2026

Better AI won't win you the next decade.

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Dominik Heinrich, featured speaker at AUTONOMOUS.
Sep 22, 2026

You can't judge what you don't know.

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The OhioX CEO Retreat gathering at Retreat 21, with attendees seated at tables beneath timber beams and hanging plants
Sep 18, 2026

6 growth principles from the OhioX CEO Retreat

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Laura Gebhardt, Mastercard VP Global Product AI & Data Strategy
Sep 15, 2026

Where Mastercard found a bigger AI opportunity.

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John Deere See & Spray sprayer with a camera-equipped boom applying herbicide in a green crop field
Sep 8, 2026

The growth bets worth backing

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A Starbucks barista handing a drink to a customer
Sep 4, 2026

Starbucks’ AI strategy starts with why customers come back.

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The red 3M logo mounted on the glass exterior of a company building
Sep 1, 2026

3M launched 92 products in one quarter.

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A veterinarian examining a dog with its owner beside the exam table
Aug 25, 2026

Trupanion's best AI result was more than a decade in the making.

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Walmart's Sparky AI shopping assistant shown across the Walmart mobile experience
Aug 25, 2026

Walmart customers who use Sparky spend 40% more per order.

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Brewlander's billboard presenting a complete AI video prompt instead of a finished commercial
Aug 11, 2026

The billboard was just a paragraph of instructions.

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The exploded Škoda DuoBell framed against noise cancelling headphones
Aug 4, 2026

Škoda built a bike bell that beats noise-cancelling headphones.

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A cross-functional team shaping a portfolio of commercial AI bets
Jul 28, 2026

You already own the playbook for commercial AI.

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A packed stand of Wisła Kraków supporters celebrating through red flares and smoke
Jul 21, 2026

The best growth idea at Cannes came from a club that measures its fans’ luck.

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Official José vs. Mourinho campaign artwork showing two versions of José Mourinho
Jul 14, 2026

Coca-Cola is running its World Cup marketing like a newsroom. That changes what a campaign is.

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A high speed train moving through a tunnel at full velocity
Jun 30, 2026

Your team got faster this year. The business didn’t.

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A Tiffany boutique environment featured in Google Cloud's LVMH AI case study
Jun 23, 2026

The most advanced AI in luxury is the one you’ll never notice.

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Three people expanding what their team can create together
Jun 16, 2026

What could your people become?

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A team working through ideas on a glass wall, with their reflections visible in the room
Jun 9, 2026

Two layers.

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Eric Porres, Head of Global AI at Logitech
June 2, 2026

What have you deleted?

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Scott Holcomb of Deloitte speaking with Betsy Ziegler at 1871's Build the System summit
May 28, 2026

You can't just be a skill anymore

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Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier
May 26, 2026

Code red.

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Three panelists comparing how their organizations are putting AI to work
May 19, 2026

Leaders from Canadian Tire, ServiceNow, and Chai all said the same thing.

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Four speakers seated on The Future Of conference stage
May 13, 2026

Recasting, not retooling

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Carly Price speaking during a panel on how AI changes design work
May 12, 2026

ServiceNow is rebuilding design work around AI.

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A conductor leading an orchestra through a live performance
May 5, 2026

Your commercial team is a rock band. The market just demanded an orchestra.

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A leader looking across the scale of infrastructure AI now makes possible
Apr 28, 2026

You're not thinking big enough.

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A Lilly scientist working with drug discovery research in the lab
Apr 21, 2026

Lilly opened access to AI models trained on $1 billion in research.

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A leadership team working through a decision while one executive holds back
Apr 7, 2026

The most expensive thing in your company is caution.

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A colleague making a point during a team discussion
Mar 24, 2026

How long do I give people who won't lean in?

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A leader briefing a team with a tablet in hand
Mar 17, 2026

The brief is the product now.

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FifthRow product interface showing its catalog of research and strategy workflows
Mar 14, 2026

Your strategy needs a faster path to useful evidence.

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A business leader speaking into a phone while working with AI
Mar 10, 2026

Smarter people. Smarter business.

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Board of Innovation autonomous growth system connecting insight, creation, and commercial action
Feb 24, 2026

The funnel is dead.

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An enterprise AI portfolio managed through a unified governance workspace
Feb 17, 2026

Your AI strategy has a portfolio problem.

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The precise internal mechanism of a mechanical watch
Feb 15, 2026

The specification economy.

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A large data center campus expanding beside an active construction site
Feb 8, 2026

The value layer is moving.

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Jason Hauer and two panelists discussing enterprise AI adoption with an audience
Feb 4, 2026

The AI capability overhang

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A multidisciplinary team redesigning work together around a shared laptop
Jan 27, 2026

The work redesign imperative

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A Walmart associate working with an automated fulfillment system
Jan 26, 2026

Walmart’s weather planning starts before the storm.

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FifthRow product catalog with research, customer insight and strategic planning workflows
Jan 20, 2026

The 12 initiatives you’ll never get to.

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Front of a BMW iX3 displayed at BMW World in Munich in September 2025
Jan 13, 2026

The best AI products don't mention AI at all

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Shoppers outside a Zara storefront in Midtown Manhattan in June 2019
Jan 13, 2026

Zara is changing how fashion imagery gets made.

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A Board of Innovation leader presenting an AI-native growth approach on stage
Jan 11, 2026

The AI-native innovation function, built by Board of Innovation (BOI)

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The Nichefire team together while attending an industry event
Jan 6, 2026

The $15 billion timing problem that's killing enterprise innovation | Nichefire

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Dave Glick of Walmart speaking with Philippe De Ridder at the AUTONOMOUS Summit
Dec 3, 2025

Walmart's AI playbook

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Enterprise AI leaders discussing how companies move practical work into production
Oct 9, 2025

Inside the enterprise AI reality: what the builders in the trenches know that most startups don't

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Founders and enterprise leaders discussing how AI pilots become production systems at OhioX
Oct 7, 2025

Pilot purgatory is over. Here is how enterprise AI deals actually get done.

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CPG leaders discussing practical AI adoption at the Ai Palette Intelligence Briefing
Jul 17, 2025

CPG leaders on testing AI before scaling it.

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FifthRow product interface showing market intelligence and strategy workflows
Jun 16, 2025

FifthRow makes strategic research repeatable.

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San Antonio Spurs staff members shown in the team environment and on its home court
Jun 3, 2025

The Spurs recovered 1,800 hours a month. Their next AI decision is where those hours go.

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A shopper comparing products in a grocery aisle
May 2, 2025

Kraft Heinz is seeing demand before it reaches the dashboard.

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