by Randy Matheson | Mar 31, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
A conversation with Uwe Stueckmann, former EVP & Chief Customer and Marketing Officer at Loblaw, now co-founder of Innovative Marketing. The Adoption Gap Is Real, And It's Self-Inflicted Here’s a number worth sitting with: 45% of businesses have paid AI...
by Randy Matheson | Mar 11, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Society & Impact, Trends & Strategy
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call — Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” It’s a moment worth pausing on, not just as a piece of trivia, but as a reminder that the...
by Randy Matheson | Feb 3, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Trends & Strategy
Toronto, ON – February 2, 2026 – Innovate Marketing today announced a strategic partnership with Twenty44 to deliver AI Workforce and Organizational Readiness Assessments tailored to the retail sector. The partnership will provide retail organizations with...
by Randy Matheson | Oct 13, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Trends & Strategy
OpenAI and Stripe just launched Instant Checkout, letting people buy products directly inside a ChatGPT conversation starting with merchant partners like Etsy, with Shopify coming soon. It sounds like it could be a big change for shopping online. But is it really?...
by Randy Matheson | Sep 25, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Tools & Techniques
It’s not just your social media feeds drowning in AI slop, workplaces are at risk too. An article this week in the Harvard Business Review, AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity (Sept 2025), draws on research from BetterUp Labs in collaboration Stanford’s...
