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The “If” Economy and Quantum Marketing: Why I’m Moving Beyond Funnels After 30 Years
The Newtonian age of marketing - the age of the funnel, the persona, and the "is" - may be over. We are living in a world of Potentia, where consumers exist in superposition, where influence operates through resonance and entanglement, and where friction destroys value faster than advertising can create it.
What Does a Marketing Consultant Actually Do?
A marketing consultant in Glasgow, Edinburgh and across Scotland is someone who helps businesses figure out how to grow.That’s the simple version. The more detailed version is that they help companies spot opportunities, solve marketing challenges, and build strategies that drive measurable results. They’re problem solvers who combine strategy, creativity, and execution to make things happen.
AI at the End of 2025: The Line Between Progress and Overreach
The Line Between Progress and Overreach By Mark Evans MBA Founder 360 Strategy, Aka Rogue Entrepreneur Previous article referenced: “The Truth About the AI Bubble: A Perez–Azhar Playbook for Business Leaders” — https://www.360strategy.co.uk/post/the-truth-about-the-ai-bubble-a-perez-azhar-playbook-for-business-leaders Howard Marks chose his moment carefully. On the 9th December 2025 he published a memo titled Is It a Bubble? for Oaktree Capital’s clients and the wider inves
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The Benefits of 360 Business Consulting
In a world where businesses often focus on quick fixes or isolated problems, holistic consulting solutions stand out by looking at the bigger picture. It’s like tuning an orchestra rather than just one instrument. When every part of your business works in harmony, the results are powerful.
Oct 20, 20254 min read
The Agentic Shift: Why Most AI Consultants Are Still Thinking in 2019
The next generation of consultants must be builders as well as thinkers. They need to understand how these systems perceive, decide, and evolve. They must know how to govern them, not just advise around them.
That shift demands a new literacy, the ability to translate technical behaviour into business language. A good consultant should be able to explain why an agent made a choice, how feedback altered its reasoning, and what governance keeps it accountable.
Oct 20, 20258 min read
PwC Says Firms Are Watching and Waiting with AI. That’s How You Lose
Waiting feels like prudence. It gives everyone the chance to breathe and carry on as ‘normal’. It also creates a structural disadvantage that is hard to see in the moment and plain to see a year later. By the time the path looks safe, other firms have already done the hard miles inside their own systems. They have learned where value lives and where it does not. They have rewired dull pieces of process that never make the press release but decide the outcome.
Oct 14, 202512 min read
The Truth About the AI Bubble: A Perez–Azhar Playbook for Business Leaders
Are we in an AI bubble? Evidence in 2025 points to a large investment boom with visible froth, but not yet a confirmed bubble. The pattern mirrors past infrastructure overbuilds such as the railways and fibre optics, where capacity arrived before demand, valuations overshot reality, and corrections followed. Those corrections were painful but productive, leaving behind assets that enabled long-term growth.
Oct 6, 20258 min read
The Brutal Truth About Entrepreneurship: The Bootstrappers' Playbook
The Brutal Truth About Entrepreneurship By Mark Evans MBA. AKA Rogue Entrepreneur Introduction: The Circus vs Reality If you came here...
Sep 24, 202526 min read
Ignorance Will Not Save You : Why Leadership and Boards Cannot Afford to Sideline AI Consulting
Boards are meant to safeguard shareholder value. Executives are measured on margins, EBIT and resilience. AI influences each of these levers. To treat it as optional is to step away from the very responsibilities leaders are appointed to uphold.
Sep 3, 202511 min read
How do SME Leaders Manage The Risks of AI: The 360 Strategy 5 Pillar Framework
The risk landscape has shifted from vague caution to specific failure modes. Privacy breaches through shadow AI tools. Unreliable outputs in customer workflows. Vendor lock-in and regulatory surprises. The dangerous element isn't any single risk, it's their unmanaged combination creating a perfect storm of business disruption, reputational damage and bottom line erosion.
Aug 15, 20256 min read
AI Agent Deployment: A Safe, Reliable Framework for Business Leaders
Agents will be everywhere. The difference between a competitive edge and a costly mess will come down to your architecture and your discipline. Autonomy without governance is reckless. Governance without autonomy is pointless. Build both into the same system and you give your people a tool they can trust.
Aug 12, 20257 min read
What Is an AI Agent? A Complete Guide to Understanding 7 Types of Intelligent Agents 2025
Complete guide to AI agents in 2025: 7 types explained with real enterprise examples. Learn the critical difference between autonomous agents and basic automation tools. Discover proven implementation strategies, common failure patterns, and ROI metrics from actual deployments. Essential reading for business leaders evaluating agentic AI for customer service, manufacturing, and workflow automation.
Aug 5, 20258 min read
AIaaS: The AI Consultant Strategy You Actually Need
We built AIaaS to cut through that noise. To give business leaders a route to trustworthy, strategic, and fully supported deployment. No gimmicks. No drag-and-drop shortcuts. Just proper integration, business alignment, and long-term value.
Jul 17, 20258 min read
Embracing Rogue Entrepreneurship: A Guide for Scottish SMEs
The Rogue Entrepreneur Path to Building What Others Said Was Impossible
Jul 15, 20259 min read
Innovation Strategy for Business Leaders: Building the Future Without Burning Out
Innovation isn’t a campaign. It’s a mindset. A rhythm. A willingness to keep evolving, even when the industry would rather you sit down and shut up.
Jun 8, 20256 min read
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