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The Cheapest Crisis Is the Crisis You Saw Coming: Foresight in a Day
A four-step, low-cost foresight routine helps crisis teams scan trends, map risks and build simple scenarios before problems become expensive emergencies....
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AI in the EMR: Building Trust in Healthcare’s Next Digital Evolution
Healthcare's AI future will hinge on trust, not technology. As AI reshapes electronic medical records, patients and clinicians alike need clarity on where these tools support care and where human oversight remains essential....
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A Pragmatic Approach to Crisis: 4 People and a Short List of Rules
A pragmatic framework for crisis planning built around a four-person standing team, quick problem diagnosis and pre-agreed rules for skipping normal approvals when speed matters most....
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China’s Retail Market Restructuring and Future Outlook
China's retail sector is undergoing a policy-driven overhaul, as slowing consumption and e-commerce growth push the government toward experiential formats, online-offline integration and quality standards multinationals should track closely....
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Between Washington and Beijing: Mark Carney’s Pragmatic Reset to China-Canada Relations
Seven months into Mark Carney's China reset, Canada is seeing tangible gains in electric vehicles, agriculture, energy and forestry, even as U.S. pressure over USMCA tests how far the pragmatic approach can go....
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Showing Up Is the Strategy
Margery Kraus and Ambassador (Ret.) Linda Thomas-Greenfield examine whether UNGA, COP31 and the G20 can sustain global cooperation this fall amid war, trade disputes and fragmented alliances....
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Embodied AI: China’s Bid to Shape an AI-Powered Future
China is accelerating embodied AI through aggressive policy support, large-scale deployment and industrial investment. Explore how humanoid robots, standards setting and commercialization efforts could reshape global competition and opportunities for multinationals....
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The World’s New Middle: Where the Global Agenda Gets Negotiated, Not Announced
As power becomes more distributed, the Middle East is redefining influence through trade, investment and strategic partnerships, shaping how global powers engage across Africa, Latin America and Asia....
What Happens to Advocacy When the Middle Disappears
Drawing on a conversation with political analyst Charlie Cook, APCO Managing Director Courtney Crowder explores how polarization, shrinking persuadable audiences and declining civic understanding are reshaping public affairs and advocacy strategy....
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In Europe’s Maturing Crypto Regulatory Environment, the Firms That Engage First Will Be the Winners
Europe’s crypto market is entering a new regulatory era. Learn how MiCA, UK reforms and rising M&A activity are creating winners, driving consolidation and rewarding firms that invest early in compliance and regulator engagement....