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Despite the risks, companies are doubling down on tech investments but struggle to clearly define their digital strategy. Companies need leaders that understand and know how to navigate the opportunity presented by artificial intelligence and human analytics. In this episode, we discuss how the most effective investments in digital strategy are closely aligned with your business' broader objectives and long-term performance goals.

To kick off our series, we want to share the story of a startup with massive potential, innovative ideas, and billions of investment dollars that still failed. This is an episode we call, We Work? Not so much.

This episode explores Merger and Acquisition fails. How did one of the biggest retail tech giants in North America stumble on their way to expanding globally? In the years after the 2008 financial crisis, one part of Best Buy’s recovery plan was to expand into the United Kingdom and China, neither went well, this is what happened.

Expanding internationally is a goal for a number of companies, especially as countries like China and India continue to grow in size and influence on the world stage. But even multinational companies get it wrong when moving to other markets. The episode is about companies that got, "lost in translation".

On this episode, we’ll share the story of what happens when you take the “supply” out of the “chain”. How one of the biggest department store chains in the U.S. completely fumbled its expansion into Canada.

It took London, U.K.-based taxi-finding app Hailo less than a year and a half to decide it wasn’t up for a rumble with entrenched competitors Uber and Lyft. This is their story.