Murray Newlands https://www.murraynewlands.com Marketing Blog Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:09 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 How to Choose an Executive AI Community in 2026 https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/how-to-choose-an-executive-ai-community-in-2026/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:08 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14667 I run an executive community, so read this with the appropriate grain of salt. But I get asked the same question often enough that it is worth writing down. With so many options now, how does a senior leader actually choose one? Here is how I would think about it if I were on the …

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]]> Why I Put CFOs, CISOs and CMOs in the Same Room https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/why-i-put-cfos-cisos-and-cmos-in-the-same-room/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:41:35 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14665 Most executive communities sort people by title. There is a CFO group, a CISO group, a CMO group, and they rarely meet. I went the other way with Open Future Forum, and it is worth explaining why. AI does not respect the org chart. When a company decides how to use AI, the finance leader …

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]]> What I Look For Before I Invite Someone to Dinner https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/what-i-look-for-before-i-invite-someone-to-dinner/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:40:58 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14663 People assume an invitation to a private dinner is about status. Title, company, net worth. It is not, at least not for the rooms I run. The community I built, Open Future Forum, is based on a simple idea from Adam Grant’s book Give and Take: the people who give the most to a room …

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]]> The Boardroom Question No One Wants to Ask Out Loud https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/the-boardroom-question-no-one-wants-to-ask-out-loud/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:39:59 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14661 Public company directors are in a hard spot with AI. They are responsible for overseeing it, the technology is moving faster than the frameworks meant to govern it, and the formal board setting is the worst possible place to admit you are not sure what to ask. I started running a dinner series for exactly …

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]]> The Executive AI Communities Worth Knowing in 2026 (and Who Each Is For) https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/the-executive-ai-communities-worth-knowing-in-2026-and-who-each-is-for/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:32:31 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14658 I keep a running list of the communities people ask me about, because the question comes up in almost every dinner conversation. Here is my honest read, the version I would give a friend rather than the polite one. A disclosure first: I run one of these, Open Future Forum, so I have a horse …

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]]> The CFO Executive Forum: A Private Council for Finance Leaders in the AI Era https://www.murraynewlands.com/2026/06/the-cfo-executive-forum-a-private-council-for-finance-leaders-in-the-ai-era/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:34:30 +0000 https://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=14636 The CFO Executive Forum is a private peer council for finance chiefs, run by Open Future Forum. It puts a small group of CFOs around one table to talk honestly about AI, spend, and risk, with no vendors in the room and no stage to play to. Most CFOs I talk to share the same …

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]]> 5 Tips To Scale Your Tech Talent https://www.murraynewlands.com/2018/09/5-tips-to-scale-your-tech-talent/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:08:28 +0000 http://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=13841 If you want to grow your customer base — or any aspect of your business, for that matter — you need top tech talent on your team. Top notch tech talent, especially in senior roles, is an integral part of your company’s success strategy in today’s market, where everything from marketing to customer service is …

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]]> What Marketers Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence https://www.murraynewlands.com/2018/02/what-marketers-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:39:20 +0000 http://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=13838 AI Intelligence is the regular thing today, as we utilize it for surfing the web, watching motion pictures on Netflix, and we even talk and visit with it. The development of AI in each field in our reality is yet to come. Be that as it may, it will never stop, as the profound learning …

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]]> 5 Reasons Why You Should Make Your Chatbot On Messenger First https://www.murraynewlands.com/2018/02/5-reasons-why-you-should-make-your-chatbot-on-messenger-first/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:24:33 +0000 http://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=13834 Facebook was the organization that influenced the buzz about chatbots to a year ago, enabling bots to be utilized as a part of online networking and on the Messenger App. Other than for the way that other informing stages took after the case of Facebook, the savvy activity, still, is to begin on Facebook, and …

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]]> Chatbots and Personal Finance https://www.murraynewlands.com/2018/02/chatbots-and-personal-finance/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:00:53 +0000 http://www.murraynewlands.com/?p=13829 AI-powered chatbots are opening the doors to a new era. . . starting now. We were all amazed when PayPal began to offer their services and the experience of not needing to enter your personal information while shopping. And, then there was Google Wallet, the smart way of shopping with only one click. But this …

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