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Our latest reads
New analysis from Naizel teams across sectors and service lines.
As AI moves from advice to authority, who defines its limits?
AI is shifting from assistant to decision maker, driven by the everyday choices of ordinary people. What does that mean for trust and for business?
How agentic AI can help unlock enterprise value at scale
AI adoption is rising, but enterprise value lags. How agentic AI can capture value across silos.
Geostrategic Analysis: monthly briefing
Our monthly analysis of geopolitical developments and their impact on international business.
Key issues
The questions boards and executive teams keep bringing to us, grouped by the agenda they sit on.
How GLP-1 medicines and AI are changing the way consumers interact with health care
Consumers are using AI tools to question their doctors and ask for new tests and prescriptions.
How AI vulnerability discovery is reshaping SOC reporting
SOC reporting is evolving as AI speeds up vulnerability discovery. Expectations for controls, testing and disclosure are rising.
How AI assurance builds trust with SOC, attestation and certification
AI assurance helps organizations demonstrate AI governance and controls through SOC reports, attestation and ISO certification.
Will the future of finance be shaped by talent or technology?
Our research shows CFOs should align technology, talent and leadership to close the gap between ambition and value creation.
What fragmented global tax cooperation means for business
Global tax cooperation now runs through several forums and is more connected with trade and geopolitics.
How an impact investor built an entire finance function at speed
How a fast-growing impact investor built a full finance function in months.
How the global IPO market proved its resilience in the third quarter
Our quarterly review of global IPO activity, sectors and markets.
When the world shifts overnight, can you operate at the speed of trust?
Risk operating models must become strategy-first, trigger-based and governance-forward.
How will AI redefine resilience for risks not yet imagined?
AI's speed, scale and insight can drive resilient growth in a complex risk environment.
Three strategic actions for insurance chief risk officers in 2026
Insurance risk management is evolving through better analysis, continuous assessment and integrated solutions.
Three strategic priorities for banking chief risk officers in 2026
Bank risk leaders need more agility against a widening range of risks. Three priorities for the year ahead.
What risk leaders need to do now about agentic AI
Agentic AI can transform risk management, if leaders adapt operating models, the CRO role and team skills.
How can reporting shape a nature-positive future?
Our nature research suggests companies have not yet developed robust reporting on nature. Here is how to improve.
What makes today's climate leaders tomorrow's business leaders?
Our climate action research shows how proactive climate action can be a valuable strategic opportunity for companies.
Can AI deliver value if workforce tensions linger?
AI success needs technology and talent working together to turn adoption into real impact.
Why global workforce mobility faces a new tax turning point
Many mobility programs are not built for today's cross-border work. Why policy faces a turning point.
How to bridge the tax talent gap in financial services
Tax functions face talent challenges. How to build technology-savvy teams and tailored development for a new generation.
How agentic AI can transform finance beyond automation in technology companies
How technology companies can transform finance operations with agentic AI.
How AI is transforming SaaS, and what CIOs should do next
Five strategic imperatives to help CIOs embed AI into enterprise SaaS while keeping governance, compliance and value in view.
In the permission economy, who earns the right to act?
Consumers are becoming more deliberate about whom they trust and what role brands play in their lives.
Why biopharma needs asset-light manufacturing models now
Biopharma manufacturing is moving from building to partnering. Asset-light models and AI cut costs and increase agility.
How older generations are engaging with AI, and why it matters
What research reveals about how people aged 60 to 85 use and feel about AI, and what an inclusive AI future requires.
Nine drivers shaping the future of media and entertainment
How the creator economy, AI, live experiences and portfolio shifts are reshaping media and entertainment.
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Every sector faces the same forces in a different order. Choose yours to see what is changing and what leading organizations are doing about it.
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- Audit
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- Climate change and sustainability services
- Consulting
- Consumer Products
- Digital
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Forensic and Integrity services
- Geopolitics and Geostrategy: Key Insights
- Global tax reform
- Global trade
- Government and Public Sector
- Health
- How an innovative approach modernized a telecom provider's finance function
- How can telecommunications operators navigate a world of evolving risks?
- How can telecommunications operators reinvent the core and build their next growth engine?
- How telecommunications operators can help enterprises scale emerging technologies
- How telecommunications operators can transform their business-to-business growth
- IFRS
- Industrial Products
- Industrials and Energy
- Infrastructure
- Insurance
- IPO
- Law
- Life Sciences
- Long term value
- Managed Services
- People and workforce
- Private Equity
- Public policy
- Retail
- Strategy Consulting by Naizel Meridian
- Sustainability
- Sustainability in Financial Services
- Sustainable development goals
- Tax
- Technology
- Technology
- Technology Risk
- To transform the future for your customers, how should you transform yourself?
- Trust
- Wealth and Asset Management
Case studies
How clients have put these ideas to work, and what changed as a result.
How a water technology company turned AI ambition into enterprise execution
How a global water technology company built an enterprise AI platform, enabled its workforce and scaled AI adoption.
How a global food and pet care leader transformed employee onboarding
How a global consumer goods company increased retention and supported growth by putting people at the center of onboarding.
How an innovative approach modernized a telecom provider's finance function
How a regional communications provider transformed its finance function quickly and cost-effectively.
Related insights
As AI moves from advice to authority, who defines its limits?
AI is shifting from assistant to decision maker, driven by the everyday choices of ordinary people. What does that mean for trust and for business?
How agentic AI can help unlock enterprise value at scale
AI adoption is rising, but enterprise value lags. How agentic AI can capture value across silos.
How GLP-1 medicines and AI are changing the way consumers interact with health care
Consumers are using AI tools to question their doctors and ask for new tests and prescriptions.
How AI vulnerability discovery is reshaping SOC reporting
SOC reporting is evolving as AI speeds up vulnerability discovery. Expectations for controls, testing and disclosure are rising.
How AI assurance builds trust with SOC, attestation and certification
AI assurance helps organizations demonstrate AI governance and controls through SOC reports, attestation and ISO certification.
Will the future of finance be shaped by talent or technology?
Our research shows CFOs should align technology, talent and leadership to close the gap between ambition and value creation.