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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


Business Growth in Scotland: The Bleed You Are Not Measuring
he business that got you to where you are now? It's built on compromises you stopped noticing years ago. These aren't the obvious problems that slap you in the face. They're structural bleeds that look fine on paper but they're quietly eating into your margin, destroying your team's trust, and making it impossible to scale properly.


Beyond the Pilot Trap: The AI Consultancy Guide For Enterprise AI Adoption in 2026
Heading into 2026, any business still caught in this extended experimentation phase should treat itself as officially behind. The window to establish structural competitive advantages is closing. Future success depends less on chasing the latest model and much more on adopting a systemic, enterprise-wide approach.
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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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Beyond the Pilot Trap: The AI Consultancy Guide For Enterprise AI Adoption in 2026
Heading into 2026, any business still caught in this extended experimentation phase should treat itself as officially behind. The window to establish structural competitive advantages is closing. Future success depends less on chasing the latest model and much more on adopting a systemic, enterprise-wide approach.
Dec 210 min read


THE HYPE: THE HIDDEN COSTS OF 'CONTEXT' IN AI THAT EVERY BUSINESS LEADER MUST KNOW
The boardroom conversation around artificial intelligence has, until now, fixated on model capabilities and upfront licence fees. This narrow lens is proving dangerously inadequate. Across FTSE 350 companies and mid-market PLCs, a silent cost escalation is underway, one driven not by the AI models themselves but, by the context they consume. Every document ingested, every customer interaction logged, every agentic workflow executed: each carries a chain of token consumption,
Nov 1719 min read


AI Agent Readiness, Part Two: Data and Technology That Actually Move
This article focuses on data and technology. It reflects what we are seeing inside real organisations. It adds balanced advice so you can act without buying into hype.
Why firms get stuck
Nov 413 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 208 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 178 min read

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