Accountability for AI has arrived faster than the leaders who can hold it
Accountability for AI now sits with senior leadership across creative and media. The leaders who can hold it are few, and the appointment cannot be acquired at the pace boards need. Across creative and media, boards are placing accountability for AI with a senior leader. The leaders who can genuinely lead on it are rare. […]
The businesses built on scale are being rebuilt, and their leaders with them

Scale has stopped being the advantage in creative and media, and the leadership built for it is the exposure.
You own the AI you cannot trace

Whoever publishes AI content now owns what they cannot vouch for, and the law is pricing that exposure.
AI margin gains are a succession debt

Across creative and media, AI is reaching senior leadership as an operating-model change that comes with a margin gain. Generative models and AI agents now carry out a steadily increasing percentage of the production and reporting processes that junior team members once conducted. When you compare this with this year’s margins the financial decision makes […]