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The shifting ground beneath UK business After years of steady hiring, the UK labour market has turned. Unemployment has risen to 5% , the highest in four years, and vacancies have dropped by more than 200,000 since early 2023. According to the Financial Times , employers are facing “ the most difficult combination of rising costs and weak demand in a decade ,” as higher National Insurance contributions, increased corporate tax, and regulatory uncertainty weigh on business con

The hype is moving faster than the people Generative AI was the headline of 2024. Now the conversation’s shifting to agentic AI : systems that don’t just generate content but make decisions, act, and learn as they go. It’s impressive stuff. But there’s a problem: the people using it often don’t have the skills - or the guardrails, to use it properly. We’ve all seen it. Tools are getting smarter, but the workforce hasn’t caught up.That’s not a tech gap. It’s a capability gap.

There’s a bit of a Wild West going on with AI right now. Everyone’s experimenting - marketing with ChatGPT, HR with Co-Pilot, analytics teams with Gemini - and most of it’s happening without much coordination. Some of it’s brilliant. Some of it’s chaotic. And some of it, if we’re honest, is probably a GDPR nightmare waiting to happen. It feels a lot like what happened when ERPs, data platforms, and BI tools first arrived. Everyone wanted in. Everyone built something. A few y

At Beyond, every client I talk to lately is wrestling with the same question: “Where should we place our bets on generative and agentic AI?” At the heart of this question is the problem that everyone’s got a theory. Vendors, big consultancies, analysts, tech firms, they’re all backing their own take, which for the cynics amongst you might sound suspiciously like a sales pitch dressed up as deep hands on experience/thought leadership. It just means there’s a lot of noise, a l

Over the past year, boardrooms have been filled with the same question: “ What are we doing with AI? ”  It’s a fair question, the hype...

You’re late to the AI party. Many of your peers have built data foundations over years. You haven’t. And now the board, investors,...

If 2023 was the year of chatbots and 2024 was the year of copilots, 2025 is the year AI agents step into the boardroom. I know this...

Not long ago, chatbots were the big thing in enterprise AI. Then came copilots and assistants, which felt like a step forward — more intuitive, more useful, and powered by generative AI. Now its the time for agents...

One of the biggest misconceptions I hear in boardrooms is that AI agents can be “slotted in” like any other new technology. That’s rarely the case. At Beyond: Putting Data to Work, we’re seeing that the moment an enterprise moves from piloting AI agents to deploying them at scale, the conversation quickly shifts. It’s no longer just about algorithms — it’s about operating models.

Last week, I sat in a boardroom where the CEO leaned back and asked: “So… if we let these agents run, what’s the worst that could...

For decades, business leaders have looked to technology to simplify operations. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, automation...

In every boardroom discussion I’ve been part of recently, one thing is clear: AI agents are no longer a side note in the AI conversation...

If 2023 was the year of chatbots and 2024 was the year of copilots, then 2025 is quickly shaping up to be the year of AI agents. What do you need to know about agents?

A how to guide, the first in a series, helping you get your head around how to prepare your business for AI in 2025

The pace of AI innovation is really staggering. Generative AI, multimodal models, and agent-based automation are opening new possibilities — but they also create new complexities.

A handy one stop spot to read up on all things data and AI strategy for 2025 and check you are covering all the bases when developing your own.

An easy guide to getting your AI strategy down on paper in 2025.

If you've ever commissioned a data strategy and ended up with a deck of PowerPoint slides, a long list of things you already knew, and no...

Read about the process and challenges of optimising and scaling your AI solutions across the business in 2025.

Read our insights into navigating the complexities of AI integration—helping you execute each phase successfully.