Translating Emerging Technology into Business Advantage
Translating Emerging Technology into Business Advantage
Congratulations. You have your first AI agent. Maybe it monitors inventory and recommends purchases. Maybe it handles customer requests, reviews invoices, follows up on sales leads, or analyzes financial information. Whatever its job is, you’ve crossed an important line: AI…
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into business. That is hardly news anymore. Companies are adding copilots. Employees are using ChatGPT. Software companies are adding AI features to products that businesses already use. And a new generation of AI agents is…
The Internet created the digital economy. AI may create the autonomous economy — an economy in which intelligent systems don’t just help humans conduct business; they increasingly conduct business with one another on behalf of humans and organizations. A company…
What Becomes Possible When AI Can Connect to Everything? By John Wheeler Every major technology shift has something in common. The technology that changes the world is rarely the part people remember years later. When Windows arrived, most people did…
Most food manufacturers know what they sold. Far fewer know what they could have sold. That difference is where distribution gap analysis begins. A traditional sales report tells you what happened. It tells you which distributors bought your products, how…
Every few years, a new technology comes along that promises to change everything. Some live up to the hype. Others quietly disappear. Artificial intelligence feels different. Not because it will replace people, but because it will help people make better…
For many food manufacturers, getting a product approved by a distributor feels like a major win. And it is. Distributor approval can take time. It may require product samples, pricing discussions, item setup work, category reviews, broker support, and a…
Foodservice distribution can look simple from the outside. A manufacturer makes a product. A distributor buys it. A restaurant or other operator serves it. The customer enjoys it. But anyone who has worked in foodservice knows the real path is…
For most of history, identity has been something you could see. You could tell who someone belonged to by the way they lived. In the Old Testament, the people of God had clear, visible markers: These weren’t random rules. They…
Most people assume that if there is a final test, it will focus on the big things. The things you can point to. The things that sound important. The things that feel spiritual. We imagine standing before God and saying:…
Walk into almost any church growth conversation today and you will hear a familiar list. Better preaching.Stronger branding.Clearer announcements.More engaging worship.A better guest experience. None of those are bad. In fact, many of them are helpful. But after a while,…
In Christ, humanity is radically redefined—not by erasing our differences, but by removing their power to rank, limit, or divide us. Identity is no longer assigned by birth, status, or gender, but by calling, character, and gifting. That is not…