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What’s Your AI Strategy? Wrong Question!by Ralf Hirt

AI is riding the hype cycle at full speed. Everywhere you turn, companies, executives, and consultants are asking, “What’s your AI strategy?” It sounds almost as if AI were an end in itself—a standalone function operating in isolation, disconnected from core business priorities. The result? A deep dive into AI rabbit holes, where tactical improvements deliver small wins but never move the needle in a meaningful way.

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Reinvention Summit: Mastering Value Creation in Times of Rapid Changeby Ralf Hirt

The Reinvention Summit is more than an event—it’s a call to action for leaders navigating today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Plug & Compound: CovQ API for AI and Strategy Yield Surgesby Ralf Hirt

From Strategy to Execution—Seamlessly and Inevitably Every company has strategies. But let’s face it—strategies alone don’t create value. Execution does. The ability to translate strategy into compounding results is the defining factor between winners and those left behind. That’s where CovQ introduces Plug & Compound—the fastest way to turn strategy into impact, outcomes and results. Clients can start step by step or go all in.

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AI Intersecting with HI – The CovQ Advantageby Ralf Hirt

In the rapidly evolving business management landscape, the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI) has created unprecedented opportunities to supercharge organizational performance and shareholder value creation. At the heart of this synergy lies the AI-agnostic CovQ (Compound Value Creator Quotient) value creation management platform, which the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services* introduced as a new category of enterprise software solutions.

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CovQ® Becomes Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® Open Ecosystemby Ralf Hirt

We are thrilled to announce that CovQ® by 8W8 is now a Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® open ecosystem. This grants CovQ® access to critical SAP® resources, including essential sales and marketing support, education, training, enablement, service benefits, and development tools.

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Time to Value: Boosting Market Cap and Valuation with CovQ’s Compounding Advantageby Ralf Hirt

In today’s fast-paced market, speed is a competitive advantage that directly influences a company’s market cap and overall valuation. But it’s not just about realizing value quickly—it’s about how that value compounds over time. Time to Value (TTV) is the key metric that determines how fast businesses capture and build on that value. The faster they can accelerate TTV, the more your results compound, creating a snowball effect on market cap, valuation, and long-term growth.

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CovQ Insights Data Corroborates HBR Analytic Services Findings on Value Creation Excellence

In today’s fast-paced business environment, mastering value creation has become a crucial competitive advantage. HBR Analytic Services (Harvard Business Review) has highlighted in the special report “Mastering Value Creation by Centering Strategy and Execution” the crucial importance of aligning and tying strategy with execution to drive business performance. The findings are backed by more than 30 quotes from leading experts including Prof. Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School, and Prof. Simon Grand, St. Gallen University, and data references from Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey.

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Introducing Mastering Value Creation™ Specialized Modules

At CovQ by 8W8, we believe in pushing the boundaries of knowledge and expertise by empowerment. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new specialized modules tailored to meet the unique needs of various functions, industries, and tasks. Dive deeper into Mastering Value Creation™ with our enhanced offerings that go beyond the CovQ Core 360 Degrees Value Drivers for CEO’s and management teams, bringing you the precision and insights needed for peak performance in specific domains. All modules can be customized by applying CovQ+.

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CovQ HBR AS Report Release Event with and at Grant Thornton New York City

We are excited to share some impressions of our exclusive launch event celebrating the Special Report, “Mastering Value Creation by Centering Strategy and Execution,” produced by HBR Analytic Services (Harvard Business Review) in association with CovQ by 8W8. The event was hosted at Grant Thornton in New York City. We would like to thank Markus Veith, Partner at Grant Thornton in charge of the Northeast Financial Institutions Practice, for facilitating the event, and Alex Clemente, Managing Director of HBR Analytic Services, for presenting the findings and moderating the panel with accomplished business leaders Alasdair Trotter, National Managing Principal and Head of Growth Advisory at Grant Thornton, Stas Chijik, CEO of CovQ client Billfold, and Ralf Hirt, CEO of CovQ by 8W8.