Guiding Growth.

AI subscriptions are quietly becoming the new SaaS sprawl. The discipline that actually saves money isn't a bigger budget or a smarter model — it's the same boring question applied consistently: does this tool earn its place?

Local versus cloud AI sounds like an IT decision. It isn't. It's a board-level question about data control, compliance, and vendor dependence — and most CEOs have never actually asked it.

Most companies are collecting AI tools the way people once collected apps. The research my own team just published points to a better discipline — treat every AI purchase like a hire, with an exit plan, not a subscription you'll regret.

Not every turnaround needs the same fix. As a turnaround CEO, I've had to reinvent a distressed acquisition from the ground up, cut a sprawling portfolio down to what actually worked, and rebuild a business through organic and inorganic growth at once — three different diagnoses, three different playbooks, and a comparable result each time. Here's what actually decides which one a business needs.

Most companies still treat AI as an IT initiative. The ones actually winning with it treat it as a business one. A look at why ownership — not model quality — decides whether AI compounds or quietly dies in a report nobody opens.

The story of six acquisitions over the years, from pivoting a struggling payments company into PayLo, to integrating TastyKhana and JustEat.in at Foodpanda, to folding Opigo into ET Now. What separates the executives who do a deal from the ones who stay to live with it.