STEEL Advisory Partners

10/06/2026

"Flattening organizations creates a new problem that few companies have solved. Historically, many professionals—from lawyers and accountants to engineers and analysts—developed expertise through entry-level work before advancing into management and senior leadership roles. If AI automates a significant portion of that early-career work, companies may find themselves with a shrinking pipeline of future experts."

"Ultimately, the managers who succeed will be the ones who are hungry to learn"

Around 41% of employees say their companies trimmed management layers last year, according to Korn Ferry.

10/06/2026

How Bigger Data Diminish the Value of Research to Business

Most academic research claims a link to the world outside the ivory tower. University of North Carolina’s John Hand, a visiting professor at Chicago Booth since 2017, examined a random selection of publications in the accounting field’s top research journals over the past 30 years and finds a large and steady weakening of the explanatory power of what researchers have historically focused on, and continue to.

“If the work we do continues to decrease in explanatory power such that our scholarly findings in 30 years’ time explain just one thousandth of 1 percent of what’s happening to the outcomes that people care about, we risk becoming wholly irrelevant to business,”

The explanatory power of accounting research findings has declined enormously over the past 30 years.

06/05/2026

"Competition may light a fire under employees, but at the cost of autonomy, motivation, and well-being. In competitive environments, the prospect of losing pushes people to act along a more rigid path of self-interest. Cooperation promotes psychological safety — a sense that it’s okay to take risks without the fear of being criticized. Feeling like you’re partaking in an endless tournament with others is harmful for your well-being. Organizations can help people feel greater freedom by designing more cooperative work environments."

Competition may light a fire under employees, but at the cost of autonomy, motivation, and well-being.

18/03/2026

Strategic growth is about doing fewer things better. Leaders who invest in precision grounded in data, discipline, and values will build organizations that grow faster, adapt more easily, and sustain profitability in an increasingly complex global economy.

4 Tips For Strategic Growth And Increased Profits

1. Build Deep Customer Relationships Through Personalization
2. Create Strategic Partnerships That Drive Scale
3. Tighten Financial Planning With Clear Profit And Cash Goals
4. Embrace Purpose-Driven Branding and Culture

Growth is about precision. Leaders who focus on customer intimacy, smart partnerships, cash discipline, and purpose will outperform in 2026.

07/01/2026

Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2026

From the AI bubble to GenAI’s rise as an organizational tool, these are the 2026 AI trends to watch.

1. The AI bubble will deflate, and the economy will suffer.
2. More all-in adopters will create ‘AI factories’ and infrastructure.
3. GenAI will become more of an organizational resource.
4. Agentic AI will still be overhyped but will likely be valuable within five years.
5. Debate will continue over who should manage AI.

AI experts Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean explain the top 2026 AI trends leaders should watch for.

07/01/2026

2026 predictions - A strong economy, a bubble that doesn’t burst, and a bit of AI sanity

Five big questions and five reckless predictions for 2026

1. Which is sending the right signal about the US economy: sturdy GDP growth or the wobbly labour market?
2. Will US stocks trail stocks in the rest of the developed world, as they did in 2025?
3. Are we in a US stock market bubble and is it likely to burst?
4. Will AI euphoria cool?
5. What’s the biggest risk?

A strong economy, a bubble that doesn’t burst, and a bit of AI sanity

07/01/2026

2026 Work Trends: Experts Predict The Future Of Work

Data shows that most experts see tech literacy continuing to dominate AI predictions for 2026, along with fluency that will require more human-centric collaboration with AI teammates.

Experts are predicting even more revolutionary 2026 work trends:
1. A human-centric trend will accompany AI domination.
2. Employee retention will undergo changes.
3. Remote work will become a perk amid return-to-office mandates.
4. Scalable impact will define the role of HR.
5. The skill’s-first revolution will nudge out the college degree.

From AI and skills-first hiring to remote work and HR transformation, 10 experts reveal the biggest workplace trends shaping how we’ll work in 2026.

07/01/2026

Happy 2026 to All.
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25/11/2025

The Biggest Challenge for business leaders is not only leading the organisation through all changes, but also have the necessary Insights about the current & future Trends that will have an impact on their business strategies.

Ultimately, leaders need to maintain focus on their main objectives, remain agile and flexible in the face of change.

Four Key Elements in Organizational Strategy:
1. Corporate Level Planning - High Level planning and ex*****on from leadership though effective communication and influence.
2. People - The most important asset of the organization that
requires leaders to empower them.
3. Finance - Maximizing shareholder value through long and short term considerations.
4. Operations - The core activities of the organisation such as manufacturing, logistics, technology, marketing and others that require relentless attention.

Leaders and their Organisations need to assess and foresee the future so that they not only constantly adapt to the changes, but also shape the environment.

25/11/2025

So what exactly does it mean to go with “strategic” AI approaches? You have to reimagine your business, you have to reimagine what kind of competition will come, and you have to reimagine what’s the basis of advantage.

1. Understand the differences between strategic versus tactical AI
2. Corporate culture matters, along with the mindset of leaders.
3. If a company is not ready to embrace strategic AI, start tactical and gradually weave the pieces together.
4. Identify the levers required to achieve AI value.
5. Communicate and work with all levels of the business.
6. Monitor and measure.

Lessons from the shipping-container revolution for today's AI