THE RIGOUR OF GLOBAL MNCs: A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE My professional career has been forged entirely within global multinational corporations (Global MNCs). From the earliest years of my career more than 25 years ago, I have operated within a structure of uncompromising corporate rigour and a high-performance mindset. In that
Across Europe, and globally, healthcare systems are under pressure: aging populations, rising chronic and complex conditions, workforce shortages, and increasing costs. The promise of AI is to relieve some of that pressure: faster diagnosis, more efficient workflows, better outcomes. Yet, despite a large number of AI tools already on the
Do big ‘top’ pharma companies really have the power to lower medicine prices for patients within the current traditional USA healthcare commercial system? To answer this question, it is critical to understand how the healthcare system operates (at least from a very general perspective). The specific mechanisms pushed by the
Introduction The 2025 NVIDIA Research paper, “Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI,” rethinks the foundations of how AI agents should operate across industries with strict safety, compliance, and trust requirements. It argues that the future of most agentic AI, systems that automate structured business processes, is not
Executive Summary Apple’s June 2025 paper, “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity,” demonstrates that current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) do not truly “reason” but instead rely on pattern-matching, with performance collapsing as problem complexity increases. This finding has
The growing frustration with the AI hype Last month of March, S&P Global Market Intelligence, released a report about current use of Generative AI Technologies in the enterprise. This same report was used by The Economist last week, as base of an analysis that concludes that there is a feeling
The recent ratification of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Costa Rica marks a significant milestone in the economic relations between the two nations. This landmark agreement, celebrated in a high-profile event organized by the Dubai-Costa Rica Business Council in collaboration with Dubai
When I was a Systems Engineering student, I had a very special teacher. He was an old-school kind of professor, wearing a white robe and with fatigue in his eyes, carrying over decades of experience working on Mainframe and Cobol programming for Banking and the Government. He was a cranky
Incorporate best practices into your Business Strategy to optimize new product launches through a structured process to plan, execute & evaluate your product & business readiness for a successful market entry. By incorporating the Launch Excellence framework into your business strategy, you can enhance your launch capabilities, mitigate risks, optimize
How to take action to drive Competitiveness, Execution, Performance & Growth. Businesses are failing to drive competitiveness, performance, execution and growth due to underlying causes that delay their progress. To address these challenges and ignite positive change, we must explore into each “Possible Cause” and establish a “Plan of Action”.
