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🚨 The APAC Chief Strategy Officer Conference is now part of something bigger: The Strategy Brief — a platform for strategy, transformation & M&A leaders across APAC.

🔗 News, insights & events — year-round.
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We’ve rebuilt The Strategy Brief website to give strategy leaders one home for insights, events, and peer connection.

CSO Summit, Strategy Circle, Signals, Briefings — all in one place.

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For years: 3–5 yr plan → mobilise → execute → celebrate.

It's clear: that rhythm is broken.

AI shifts capability quarterly. Markets turn in weeks.

New playbook:
• 90-day reviews
• Fund momentum, not milestones
• Dynamic portfolios, not monoliths

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Day Two of the APAC Chief Strategy Officer Conference is here!

Another full day of insights, connections, and conversations shaping the future of strategy across the region. Let’s keep the momentum going. 💡

#APACCSO2025

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We’re well underway at the APAC Chief Strategy Officer Conference in Sydney!

The room is buzzing with ideas, conversations, and insights from some of the brightest strategy leaders across the region.

#APACCSO2025

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AMD just signed a multi-gigawatt chip deal with OpenAI (~6GW of compute).

It’s more than hardware:

• Compute is the new moat
• Partnerships > transactions
• Execution risk is huge
• Lock-in defines power

Infrastructure is now strategy.

#AI #Strategy #M&A

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The next supply chain crisis won’t be ships or semiconductors. It’ll be the cloud. 🌩️

Most enterprises now depend on a single provider. One outage or dispute = payroll, finance, and customer data offline.

Full piece 👉 https://t.co/7CO7OXdPAD

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Most data strategies don’t fail because the models are bad.

They fail because leaders assume the models will stay good.

That’s model drift, the silent killer of data strategy.

✅ Monitor drift like revenue
✅ Rehearse retraining
✅ Translate decay into $$

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Most strategies don’t fail because the ideas are bad.
They fail because:

• No clear ownership
• Weak cadence
• Leaders wait too long to act

In my latest Q&A with PepsiCo’s Luke Short, we unpack how to fix this.

👉 https://t.co/7301jIVHOe

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Great strategies fail without strong execution.

At the Chief Strategy Officer Conference, hear how leaders at Intellihub & Shibumi close the gap with visibility, governance & resource alignment.

🔥 Don’t miss this fireside chat 👉 https://t.co/RBbQjT2na6

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We’re hearing this from execs: “Our strategy feels fragile in the face of AI + regulation.”

The strongest teams are stress-testing strategy:
1️⃣ Frame key uncertainties
2️⃣ Build living optimistic/pessimistic scenarios
3️⃣ Re-test quarterly

Resilience = a system, not a slogan.

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🚀 At the Chief Strategy Officer Conference we’ll tackle a key challenge:

From Strategy to Execution: Closing the Gap in Large-Scale Transformation

Hear from leading voices on how to move from vision → results.

📍 Sydney | Oct 2025

#APACCSO2025

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Spoke with senior execs across APAC: everyone’s got a digital transformation agenda, but most measure activity, not impact.

The ones making it work?
1️⃣ Outcome-first KPIs
2️⃣ Fewer, decisive signals
3️⃣ Adaptive scorecards

Transformation isn’t IT metrics. It’s enterprise results.

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The silent killer of transformation isn’t bad strategy — it’s decision latency.

Measure how long it takes from insight → decision → action. Then cut the lag with fast lanes + clear ownership.

🔑 Transformation = compressing time between knowing & doing.

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💡 Strategy is easy to say, hard to do.

In my Q&A with Nate Richardson, we unpacked:

Why budgets break ideas
How shared leadership drives alignment
Why pivots keep strategy alive

“If strategy were a 100m race, only the start & finish matter.”

https://t.co/CXJGG7qBDF

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Hong Kong’s New World in early talks with Blackstone on a $2.5B take-private. Shares + bonds jumped 10–20%.

Why care:
• Liquidity = strategy (post $11.2B refi)
• Preferred equity = control w/out chaos
• Hybrid financing = new playbook

Structured capital may outmaneuver M&A.

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Climate strategy isn’t compliance — it’s competitive advantage. 🌍

In our latest Exec Edge Q&A, Sustainify CEO Rachelle Cooper Kulkarni shares how climate integrity, foresight & action can define the next market leaders.

Read here ➡️

https://t.co/3ANUmAPF8K

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AI pilots are easy. Scaling them is hard.
In 2025, the challenge isn’t AI capability — it’s the integration gap.

Why? Governance, architecture, and culture aren’t built to absorb AI at scale.

Full brief → https://t.co/Y9oroLbqOp

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What does it really take to turn strategy into execution?
In this Quick Take, Christine Blyth (Head of Strategy & Transformation @ Evolvere AU) shares where most orgs get stuck — and how to build real momentum. 👇

🎥 https://t.co/CXJGG7q3O7

#Strategy #Execution #Leadership

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Scenario planning isn’t about prediction — it’s about readiness.

In our latest Exec Edge Q&A, Brenden Varcoe (CSO at Dabble) shares how to turn uncertainty into a strategic advantage.

From COVID to market shocks.
🔗 https://t.co/rO7nphBl2v

#Strategy #Leadership

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One of the biggest things we're hearing from strategy leaders?

Execution.

The gap between vision and impact is growing.

The best teams are closing it by rethinking accountability and embedding execution directly into the strategy itself.