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Arqiva: What does a growing business stand for?
Arqiva’s refreshed identity opens a question about B2B brand positioning: how can a growing portfolio create a clearer reason to choose a business?
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K2 Perspectives
Reframing what matters now.
We read current business decisions through the lenses of brand, systems, leadership and value creation.
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IKEA: Who funds the brand promise?
IKEA’s European price investment connects pricing strategy with its brand promise. K2 REFRAME explores affordability, perceived value and business decisions.
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Apple TV’s US monthly price is now $14.99 — three times its 2019 launch price.
The price increase clearly made it through the meeting. We’re less certain perceived value was invited.
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Changing the energy source is visible. Transforming the system requires looking between the cables, storage assets and decisions that carry it.
The International Energy Agency expects renewable electricity generation to overtake coal-fired output in 2026. It also forecasts solar PV becoming the world’s second-largest renewable source of electricity after…
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It is easy to measure cybersecurity by the height of the walls. The harder question is who protects the spaces between them.
More than 100 organisations across AI, technology, finance and infrastructure—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft—have called for a collective surge in cyber defence before AI-enabled attacks become more…
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Safety is not a time limit added after the growth machine has already started running.
Meta has reached a proposed settlement with US states in the child-safety case, potentially worth up to $17.1 billion and still subject to court approval. The proposed measures include stronger age assurance and…
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For years, the AI race has been framed around one metric: a bigger model, more data and more compute.
This week, Thomson Reuters presented a different path. The company announced Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, built on an open-source foundation and specialised with its legal, tax, regulatory and…
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Who Owns Institutional Memory When a Company Closes?
When a company closes, its aircraft, offices and chairs change hands. But what about its emails, meeting traces and employee messages?
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Speed, Scale and Lasting Value Are Not the Same Metric
A brand can move fast without carrying its valuation forever.
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The point is not whether Seda Sayan looks like a student. It is that education advertising all looks the same.
ÜçDörtBeş All Star’s campaign, created by Rafineri, places Seda Sayan in the world of exam preparation wearing a school uniform. At first glance, the match does not fit the classic definition of target-audience…
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Being seen at the office does not mean being connected.
A Frontiers in Psychology study of 7,704 employees at a large U.S. healthcare organisation found that fully remote employees reported the highest levels of well-being. Connection to colleagues and workplace culture did…
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Same Sound. New System?
When an audio company changes its name, which frequency should remain untouched?
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AI is not the problem. Sameness is.
Not long ago, the challenge was producing enough content. Now anyone can publish every day, in every format.
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Is simplicity premium, or standard?
Tat’s new Premium ketchup and mayonnaise range responds to a clear expectation among today’s consumers: a shorter ingredient list, a more legible label and peace of mind at the point of purchase. The claim “only 6…
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Instagram’s new wordmark: separating opinion from insight.
Instagram refreshed the wordmark shown at the top of its app after ten years. The change is small. The volume of commentary around it is not.
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Can One Button Really Change a Business Model?
Can one button really change a business model?
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Sometimes the thing that breaks is not a record, but an old story about yourself.
2,000 kilometres. Eight countries. 28 days, 17 hours and 59 minutes.
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Are you choosing the feed, or is the feed choosing you?
A jury has found Instagram and YouTube liable over design choices alleged to hook young users.
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