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What Shadow AI Can Reveal About the Firm
The final part of our Shadow AI series considers what unapproved AI use can reveal about broken systems, hidden judgment and the areas where a firm may not know what it does not know.
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You Can’t Monitor Your Way Out of an Incentive Problem
Monitoring cannot solve the incentives that keep valuable thinking in personal AI accounts. This article separates workarounds for broken systems from judgment capital employees have little reason to surrender.
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Shadow AI Is Really About Who Owns How You Think
Why unapproved AI is not only a security or tooling problem. The first article in the series examines the personal context and accumulated judgment employees may be unwilling to move into company systems.
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Executive Summary and The Happiness Index Ahead of March 26 Report Launch
An update ahead of the Global Workplace Happiness Report launch, including Stefan Tornquist's research and editorial role and his podcast conversations with the academics and experts behind the study.
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Extending The Half-Life of Research
Why public research should be designed as a reusable campaign rather than a one-off report, with evidence carried into content, conversations and decisions long after launch.
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New Research: aibl and Executive Summary RSI Map the “Unspoken Barriers” Stalling Mid-Market AI
A new research series with aibl examines the cultural and human barriers that slow AI adoption in mid-market organizations, combining executive interviews with primary and secondary research.
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Of Course We Rebuilt Our Website After 6 Months. What We Learned Doing It Ourselves.
What Executive Summary learned from rebuilding its website after eight months, from platform and structure choices to the practical role of AI in the process.
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Executive Summary Selected to Support Global EPAM Study on the Future of AI, Cloud, and Security
A new global study with EPAM brings executive perspectives into research on how enterprises are approaching AI, cloud and security across North America and EMEA.
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Executive Summary Selected to Lead Creation of First-Ever Global Workplace Happiness Report
The Happiness Index appoints Executive Summary to lead the inaugural Global Workplace Happiness Report, combining a global workplace dataset with research and editorial development.
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Why AI Is Reshaping Commerce Faster Than You Think: Highlights from Ecommerce Expo
Highlights from Jim Clark's Ecommerce Expo keynote on how AI is changing discovery, customer journeys and digital commerce, including what businesses can do now.
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Executive Summary Selected to Lead Breakthrough Research Platform for AiBL
Executive Summary becomes aibl's long-term research partner, beginning with a study of agentic AI adoption and a research platform designed to guide aibl Live 2026.
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Executive Summary Managing Partner Jim Clark to Deliver Keynote at Ecommerce Expo 2025
Jim Clark will deliver an Ecommerce Expo keynote drawing on Adobe Digital Trends research to examine how AI is reshaping customer experience and ecommerce.
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Industry Veteran Jim Clark Joins Executive Summary
Jim Clark joins Executive Summary as Managing Partner, bringing experience across research, thought leadership, marketing and customer experience.
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