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Strategic perspectives on retail AI, commercial analytics, decision intelligence, operating models, and the teams that turn data into enterprise growth.

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Analytics Leadership · Featured

Models Are Building Models. Your Data Science Operating Model Has to Change.

Models are beginning to build models. That does not make deep data science expertise obsolete — it changes where that expertise matters. Here is what agentic development means for talent, governance, model risk and the data science operating model.

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Commercial Decisioning

The Promotion Trap: Retailers Are Buying Sales With Their Own Margin

The future of retail pricing is not a better promo calendar. It is dynamic price orchestration.

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Stop Pricing Products. Start Allocating Margin.
Commercial Decisioning

Stop Pricing Products. Start Allocating Margin.

Why retailers need portfolio-level price and promo optimization—and the AI decisioning layer to allocate margin across pricing, promotions, markdowns, loyalty, and competitive response.

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