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The headline finding: 60% of Japanese firms are now working on economic security measures, up from 40% the year before. That sounds like progress. It isn&#8217;t. Read the fine print. A large share of that 60% were merely collecting information on international affairs. In other words, they are reading the news and calling it strategy. This is not a small distinction. It is the difference between a company that will survive the next supply chain shock and one that will not. The shock is not coming. It is already here. Strategy failures are rarely the result of insufficient data. 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Among organizations deploying AI and autonomous business capabilities, approximately 80% report workforce reductions. Yet those reductions do not appear to translate into ROI. Companies cutting headcount with AI are getting roughly the same returns as those that aren&#8217;t. Gartner&#8217;s conclusion was direct: workforce reductions may create budget room, but they do not create return. This is not a technology problem. It is a strategy problem. The companies failing to get returns from AI are not executing a strategy. They are executing a plan. 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