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Commercial Growth, Strategy & Digital Transformation

Ideas, observations and lessons from scaling businesses, improving customer value and navigating change.

Growth Strategy | Customer Value | AI | Digital Transformation | Leadership

Featured Insight

A selected perspective on the commercial forces shaping growth, strategy and execution.

STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS
Marketing Doesn't Remove Constraints

Why better marketing often exposes the next bottleneck instead of creating sustainable commercial growth.

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Recent Perspectives

Commercial growth lessons from SaaS, AI, digital transformation and customer value.

GROWTH STRATEGY
Why Most SaaS Trials Don’t Convert

Why activation matters more than acquisition.

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CUSTOMER VALUE
Why “Switch and Save” Is a Growth Strategy Problem

Short-term acquisition tactics often weaken long-term growth.

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STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS
From Efficiency to Resilience

Lessons from the UCD Smurfit Alumni Summit on AI, supply chains and adaptability.

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COMMERCIAL GROWTH
Why Strong Products Alone Don't Create Scalable Startups

Why growth systems matter as much as product innovation.

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GROWTH STRATEGY
Why Most Growth Strategies Fail

Seven reasons strategies fail to deliver results.

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Areas I Write About

Growth Strategy • Customer Value • AI • Digital Transformation • SaaS • Scale-ups • Leadership

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