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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 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
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 156 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
Shadow AI: Why this Hidden Threat is Undermining Your Business AI Readiness in 2025?
What is shadow AI and how does it affect business.
May 64 min read
AI Readiness for SME's: Why Most Leaders Are Still Hammering Square Pegs Into Round Holes
Generative AI is following this well-worn path, and the McKinsey data confirms what I've been observing in the trenches – we're still approa
Mar 174 min read
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