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The most rewarding collaboration, embedding customer-centricity and a product mindset to deliver an intuitive, hyper-personalised app. Thank you Frasers Group for bringing us along for the ride 🙌

Fusion Strategy: the TL;DR 📖 Venkat Venkatraman launched his latest book with us in London last week, a playbook that's helping industrial businesses get competitive in a world of digital disruption. For those who've yet to read the book, we've got Venkat's 6 key take-aways here: https://hubs.la/Q02F321m0

Yesterday we were fortunate to welcome 30 people 👥 from manufacturing businesses across the West Midlands to Club Woods in Birmingham. These eager learners joined us from 8 growing businesses 📈 covering everything from steelworking, to food manufacturing, to machining solutions. The common thread connecting them? They're ready to accelerate their businesses with AI! The event was the kick off 🏁 to our 12 week AI Adoption Accelerator which we're delivering in collaboration with our friends at TechWM Delivered completely free of charge – it will equip these 8 businesses with the practical knowledge, tools and connections they need to transform their business with AI. Getting together was an opportunity for participants to meet each other 👩🏫 and the experts who will be guiding them through the process, as well as hear some inspiring words of encouragement from West Midlands Tech Commissioner, Martin Ward, AND Exec Richard Bovey, Tech WM Head of Community & Collaboration Naomi N. and our very own AI Adoption Accelerator leads Bradley Quinn & Charlotte Isabella Aspinall. Now the kick off is done and dusted 💪, the hard work begins. Join us in wishing all of our participants the best of luck, and watch this space for updates. 👀 We can't wait to see how they choose to innovate.

Bringing Bristol Zoo Project into the roaring 20s 🦁 When you're looking towards an exciting new location and a fresh new brand; you don't need a disjointed old tech stack holding you back. Bristol Zoological Society needed to get their CMS, UI and UX up to speed before their rebrand went live - and they needed our help to do it ASAP. Ten weeks later, here's what we achieved: https://hubs.la/Q02BTMXr0

Consider this book officially launched 🚀 We had the total pleasure of co-launching Prof Venkat Venkatraman's second book in the UK last night. Leaders joined us in London to hear from world-renowned digital strategy expert Venkat, on the research and experiences behind his latest work, 'Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future'. A really eye-opening exploration into what the future will look like for asset-heavy industries, in a world transformed by widespread digitisation. This is a must-read for any leader grappling with incoming industry disruption. Thank you Venkat for the honour, and a huge thank you to all who joined us!

64% of CEOs feel out of their depth when it comes to tech. With that in mind, we asked them how they're spending those precious tech budgets >> https://hubs.la/Q02BVZxG0

When you're operating as a digital-only business, you can't risk the downtime or data loss that can come with a big migration - especially in your busiest season. But with Picnic's unlimited ambition as the world's fastest-growing online supermarket, they needed an unlimited infrastructure that could support their growth plans. In 8 months: • They migrated to AWS Cloud • They stayed fully operational throughout their busiest season • They bagged €500k in savings And they did it all with a little help, it looked like this... https://hubs.la/Q02CCYqg0

When your subject matter is complex, your user journey needs to be the opposite. Life sciences has some catching up to do on the latter. In this blog, Patrick Scanlon explains the untapped advantage of digital user insights, with three proven strategies to improve your journey >> https://hubs.la/Q02BPHwp0

Corporate headshot checklist: Smart outfit ✅ Iconic brand chair ✅ Fire extinguisher? 🤔 We ditched the arms-crossed professional pics from day one at AND, and we ditched the run of the mill job titles too. Here's what we learned by embracing the firebreathers in our people >> https://hubs.la/Q02BVxBh0

Would you introduce technology to your business, if you were worried it could replace you? 43% of CEOs confessed they're grappling with that dilemma; but with the desire to keep up being greater than fear, 76% are launching AI bootcamps for their teams. Stuart Munton shares his advice for leaders grappling with disruption: https://hubs.la/Q02BQcC_0