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Why “Wait and See” Is Becoming the Most Expensive IP Decision You Can Make
A new technology hits a point where the question stops being whether it works and becomes who already owns the ground around it. Quantum computing has recently crossed that line. McKinsey’s 2026 Quantum Technology Monitor reports over 300 companies — Airbus, JPMorgan Chase, Boehringer Ingelheim among them — moving from pilots to embedded applications, against…
Is Your AI Strategy Just a Faster Way to Stand Still?
Most companies pouring money into AI are getting almost nothing back — and the reason is strategic, not technical. In “When Developing an AI Strategy, Beware the Urgency Trap” (HBR, July 2026), David De Cremer draws on findings that the overwhelming majority of generative AI projects fail and that roughly nine in ten senior executives…
Why IP Strategies Fail: The Gap Between the Decision and the Portfolio
Many intellectual property strategies don’t fail because they were poorly designed. They fail because nothing changes after the sign-off. New McKinsey research in Harvard Business Review — How to Ensure Your Company Acts on Your New Strategy — puts numbers on the problem for business strategy in general: across more than 400 companies, the ability…
Investors Have Told Us What Wins in 2026 — Is Your IP Strategy Listening?
When investors describe a winning company, they now reach for three ideas: credible AI adoption, resilience, and durable competitive advantage. McKinsey’s latest survey of long-term investors — What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies — makes the shift plain. Geopolitics is the top concern and the risk investors believe…
Will AI Recommend Your Brand? Why AI Visibility Is Now an IP Strategy Problem
When a customer asks an AI assistant what to buy, does your brand come up as an answer? New research from Georgetown and Darden, published in Harvard Business Review as “How to Get AI to Surface Your Brand” (Gale, Cian and Wathieu, June 2026), suggests many household names don’t. Across 15 retail categories and three…
