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Next-Gen Business Power: Unleashing Quantum-AI Potential
Joseph Byrum
The convergence of quantum computing and AI marks a transformative leap for business, redefining how organizations process information, generate insights, and innovate. This fusion unlocks scalable efficiency, sustainable computing, and advanced analytics — enabling real-time decision-making, deeper customer understanding, and accelerated R&D. As these technologies mature, they promise to reshape business capabilities across industries.
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CEO Insights 2025: 5 Imperatives & 7 Growth Bets for Future-Ready Leadership
Francesco Marsella, Ralf Baron, Petter Kilefors, Maximilian Scherr
Arthur D. Little’s 2025 CEO Insights study, “Proactively Embracing Change,” reveals that today’s CEOs are confidently navigating geopolitical and economic volatility through bold, proactive strategies. The first in a series of insights, this Advisor explores five strategic imperatives and identifies seven growth areas CEOs are prioritizing, such as institutionalized innovation, ecosystem collaboration, and agile M&A strategies. The study underscores the need for CEOs to transform uncertainty into opportunity by embedding agility, resilience, and forward-thinking into their organizations.
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Turning the Tide on Space Junk with Orbital Stewardship
Curt Hall
This Advisor explores the growing urgency of removing space debris to safeguard Earth’s orbital environment and ensure the sustainability of future missions. With thousands of defunct satellites and fragments threatening operational spacecraft and essential Earth-based services, debris removal is increasingly viewed as critical infrastructure — akin to ocean cleanup. While promising technologies and international guidelines are emerging, challenges such as voluntary compliance, regulatory gaps, and security concerns persist.
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9 Traps That Derail Purpose-Driven Transformation
Dee Corrigan, Lauren Elliott, Gethin Hine, James McCarthy
In today’s business landscape, purpose is essential — not a side note. Yet, many purpose-driven efforts lose momentum due to common behavioral pitfalls. Drawing from the Purpose-in-Practice Community, this Advisor identifies nine traps that undermine lasting, transformative change. Avoiding these traps can help leaders embed purpose more meaningfully and sustainably across their organizations.
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Implementing a Predictive Twin for Positive-Energy Districts: Lessons Learned
Angela Greco, Andrea Kerstens
This Advisor distills key lessons from the Syn.ikia project’s implementation of digital twins in Uden, the Netherlands—an EU-funded initiative focused on positive-energy districts. It explores how predictive digital twins, combining building simulations with AI-driven user behavior models, can optimize renewable energy use. It also emphasizes the importance of ethical data management, user empowerment through intuitive design, and value chain collaboration to ensure digital twins enhance sustainability without alienating end users.
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Embedding Sustainability into Strategy Execution
Matt Mayberry, Scott Tew, Laura Asiala
Achieving bold sustainability commitments requires a fundamental shift in strategy, guided by a cascade of choices from aspiration to execution. This Advisor outlines a four-phase model — aspirations, strategy, chartering, and execution — and emphasizes the importance of connecting high-level sustainability goals to operational realities. Without clear translation across levels, initiatives risk stalling. Effective transformation demands active engagement throughout the organization to embed sustainability into strategic decision-making and drive lasting value.
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Why AI Projects Fail — and How to Make Them Succeed
San Murugesan
Despite AI’s transformative potential, over 80% of AI projects fail — double the rate of traditional IT initiatives. As this Advisor points out, key pitfalls include unclear objectives, poor data quality, inadequate infrastructure, and misaligned expectations. To reverse this trend, organizations must align AI capabilities with real-world needs, invest in robust systems, and build multidisciplinary expertise. Establishing clear metrics and knowing when to pause or pivot projects are also critical for long-term success.
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Toward a Virtue-Based Vision of Professional Purpose & Responsibility
Ananthi Al Ramiah, Gretchen Reydams Schils, Matthew Phillips
This Advisor argues that professional ethics education must go beyond rules and codes of conduct to truly prepare individuals for the complex, high-stakes challenges of modern professional life. It advocates for a virtue ethics approach — rooted in purpose, character, and moral reasoning — as essential to shaping a resilient, reflective, and ethically grounded professional identity. Drawing on Stoic philosophy, the article emphasizes the importance of joy, fulfillment (eudaimonia), and the cardinal virtues as guiding principles for meaningful and ethical professional practice.
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AI Takes Orbit: Transforming Satellite Data into Environmental Action
Curt Hall
As Cutter Expert Curt Hall explores in this Advisor, AI is revolutionizing satellite data analysis for environmental applications by enabling faster, more precise, and accessible insights. GenAI streamlines data interpretation and broadens access through natural language queries, while in-space AI processing accelerates real-time analysis by eliminating the need to transmit data to Earth. Together, these advancements empower more responsive environmental monitoring, climate action, and sustainable resource management.
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Quantum Software Engineering: Past, Present & Future
Giuseppe Bisicchia, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Juan Murillo, Antonio Brogi
Giuseppe Bisicchia, José Garcia-Alonso, Juan Murillo, and Antonio Brogi lay the historical and theoretical groundwork for understanding quantum software engineering (QSE) as a discipline, tracing its origins to Richard Feynman’s call for quantum simulation and following the evolution of quantum algorithms from Peter Shor’s and Lov Grover’s breakthroughs to today’s hybrid implementations. The article argues that QSE must strike a balance between importing proven classical software engineering practices and cultivating quantum-specific innovations.
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The Quantum-AI Revolution: How Quantum Computing & Language Models Will Reshape the Enterprise
Joseph Byrum
Joseph Byrum examines the transformative intersection of quantum computing and AI, contending that the convergence is not merely technological. He explores five innovation vectors — from quantum-enhanced attention mechanisms and quantum compression techniques to AI-augmented quantum circuit design — demonstrating how each could dramatically reshape computation, knowledge processing, and enterprise workflows. Beyond technical sophistication, the article proposes a human-centric philosophy of computation that emphasizes integration, uncertainty as a resource, and ethical design.
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A Business Leader’s Guide to Quantum Software Architecture: Patterns for Success
Michal Baczyk
Michal Baczyk delves into the pressing need for architectural rigor in quantum software development. As enterprise adoption looms, Baczyk proposes a three-layer taxonomy of patterns (design, algorithmic, and architectural) intended to address the complexity of hybrid quantum-classical systems. The article offers both a conceptual roadmap and a pragmatic toolkit for organizations seeking to build scalable, maintainable quantum systems.
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Quantum Software Ecosystem Governance
Guido Peterssen Nodarse, Jose Luis Hevia
Guido Peterssen and José Luis Hevia focus on the operational and organizational dimensions of quantum computing. They provide a compelling call to action: without robust governance, quantum computing projects will likely spiral into unmanageable complexity. Through a detailed case study of Bizkaia Quantum Advanced Industries (BIQAIN), the authors introduce the concept of the private quantum hub as a model for resource coordination, lifecycle management, and cost control across distributed quantum infrastructures.
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The Quantum Shift: From Exploration to Enterprise Strategy — Opening Statement
Mario Piattini, Ricardo Perez Castillo
This issue of Amplify explores the emerging discipline of quantum software engineering (QSE), highlighting the paradigm shift required to build, manage, and govern robust quantum software systems. Through expert contributions, it addresses foundational theory, architectural innovation, hybrid classical-quantum system design, operational governance, and the convergence of quantum computing with AI.
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How AI Is Rewiring Global Legal Systems
Curt Hall
As Cutter Expert Curt Hall explores, AI is transforming legal systems worldwide, from AI-powered “smart judges” in China’s virtual courts to the UAE’s ambitious regulatory intelligence ecosystem designed to streamline lawmaking. These technologies promise greater efficiency, accessibility, and responsiveness in legal processes. However, they also raise critical concerns around bias, transparency, accountability, and overdependence on automation — highlighting the need for ethical frameworks and strong human oversight to ensure justice remains fair and grounded.
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Mastering the Question: The Art & Science of Asking
Kanina Blanchard
Great communicators and leaders distinguish themselves by mastering the art and science of asking powerful questions — of others and themselves. Clear, purposeful questions foster trust, drive innovation, and reveal hidden insights, while empathetic, well-timed inquiry builds psychological safety and emotional intelligence. Combining strategic questioning with strong interpersonal skills transforms conversations, strengthens relationships, and accelerates learning and impact.
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Blueprint for Greener Healthcare: A Three-Step Sustainability Strategy
Ali Ayach, Farhan Mirza
Arthur D. Little’s three-step framework can help guide healthcare organizations toward environmental sustainability. Beginning with foundational green practices like energy efficiency and waste management, the approach then integrates broader operational initiatives such as telemedicine and clinical redesign. Finally, it addresses systemic enablers — including eco-conscious procurement, R&D innovation, and physician education — to embed sustainability across the healthcare value chain and reduce emissions at all levels.
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The Need for Speed: Faster Data-Driven Decision-Making Defines Success
Myles Suer
Legacy data management practices, where insights are delayed and decisions rely on instinct, are no longer sufficient in today's fast-paced business environment. To stay competitive, organizations must decentralize decision-making and ensure frictionless, timely access to data for all employees. As this Advisor explores, a strategic, tailored approach to data recency and accessibility will define future-ready enterprises.
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Research Reveals Leadership Gap in Digital Transformation
Jeremy Blain
New global research from over 2,100 leaders reveals a critical execution gap — “digital detachment” — where senior leadership overestimates progress while failing to align culture, data use, and customer-centricity. Although many leaders express confidence and progress is evident, transformation efforts falter without a shared purpose, cultural alignment, and effective data-driven decision-making. The Advisor underscores the urgent need for leaders to shift from acknowledging challenges to taking decisive action that embeds transformation into the organization’s DNA.
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EIZ Leads Lusatia’s Shift to Clean Energy
Hamdy Abdelaty, Jakob Pohlisch
Lusatia is undergoing a major transformation as part of Germany’s Energiewende, which aims for climate neutrality by 2045. Central to this transition is the Energy Innovation Center (EIZ) at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. Funded by the German government, EIZ drives regional structural change through interdisciplinary research, technology development, and open innovation. EIZ is developing sustainable, intelligent energy systems to replace coal. Its innovation hub, EIZ SPARK, accelerates commercialization, positioning Lusatia as a model for a just and future-ready energy transition.