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STAGE IIX Sees AI Brand Visibility as a Reputation Battle

STAGE IIX Sees AI Brand Visibility as a Reputation Battle

By: Shawn Mars For most of the past two decades, the rules of being found online were easy to state, even if they were hard to execute. A company wanted to rank on Google, land near the top of the results page, and win the click. Entire industries grew up

David D. Ellison on Evaluating AI ROI Before You Invest

David D. Ellison on Evaluating AI ROI Before You Invest

By: Natalie Johnson Boards approved AI budgets on faith for three years, and the bill is now coming due. Finance chiefs who once accepted a pilot deck and a productivity projection are asking a harder question: where, precisely, did the money show up in the numbers? Most organizations cannot answer

What If You Could Review The PR Firm Before You Hire It?

What If You Could Review The PR Firm Before You Hire It?

Imagine a startup preparing for a major funding announcement. The company has a product, a leadership team and a story it believes deserves attention, but it needs help getting that story into the market. Several PR firms are interested in the business, and each one arrives with an impressive presentation.

Why Ethics Matter and Akin Oni on the Real Drivers of Project Success

Why Ethics Matter and Akin Oni on the Real Drivers of Project Success

By: Natalie Johnson “Ethics is the most underrated driver of project success,” says Akin Oni, a seasoned strategy and project executive and avowed leadership expert. With a career spanning Oil, Natural Gas, LNG, Mining, and Infrastructure projects across multiple continents, Oni has witnessed firsthand how ethical decision-making, or the absence

Meet the Team Behind Carl Construction

Meet the Team Behind Carl Construction

Commercial construction depends on the people who plan the work, price it, and see it through. Owners want to know who builds the schedule, who tracks the money, and who answers the phone when a problem shows up on site. Carl Construction answers those questions with a small leadership team.

Scott Saffold and The Business Value of Continuous Professional Development

Scott Saffold and The Business Value of Continuous Professional Development

Earning a professional credential can require years of education, examinations, supervised experience, and specialized training. Yet in many fields, reaching that milestone is less an endpoint than the beginning of a much longer process. Technology changes, new research emerges, customer expectations evolve, and methods that were considered standard a decade