AI-Adoption Program - Key Service Objectives Uncertainty around AI adoption is sky high. A recent MIT/Fortune report highlights that 95% of corporate generative AI pilots fail before scaling. The reasons are clear: lack of alignment, poor business models, and projects driven by hype rather than strategy. At Value Creation – Alternative, we believe AI should...
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PMI Strategy: Preservation, Symbiosis, Holding, Absorption
PMI Strategy, the acronym for Post Merger Integration Strategy, is one of the most difficult conundrum for buyers of companies. Indeed, there is enough evidence in the literature showing that acquiring companies actually destroys value. Then, why not challenge buyers on their real reasons for engaging in an acquisition process? Note that I am not...
Tightening up relationships with Italian universities and businesses
VC-A’s managing director, Christophe Schwoertzig and VC-A Member, Kerem Gurses, met in Rome on the 11th day of April 2017 to discuss alternative ways of developping transactions with Italian universities and businesses. Kerem is professor of Organisation Theory at leading Italian Luiss University and former Strategic Lecturer at ESCI Barcelona. Christophe and Kerem discussed digital...
Banks’ digitalisation will affect us
If you are not working at a bank, you may wonder why you should bother about banks digitalisation. The reality is that, like it or not, when banks cough, individuals, companies and even sovereign states, catch a cold. Our Greek friends know what I am talking about. I will focus here on three areas of...