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A collection of features and articles based on deep research and market trends.
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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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The Cash Flow Bleed: 5 Hidden Growth Killers in Scottish SMEs (And How AI Can Stop Them)
Poor inventory alone steals up to 11 percent of annual revenue (Firework, 2025). You are not growing if you are leaking. Live dashboards deliver 30 % faster cash-flow pivots (The Management Journal, 2025). This guide shows you where to press the stop-tap, without hiring a data-science team.
Nov 275 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
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 1412 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 68 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 127 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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