Retail growth in 2025: Navigating the perfect storm of store expansion


The pandemic demonstrated that physical retail is far from dead, supermarkets remained busy, and shoppers flocked back to flagship destinations as restrictions lifted. Yet expanding a store network in 2025 requires navigating a convergence of headwinds that make growth more challenging than ever.

Authored by CEO Paul McNamara, MD Laura Scott, Senior Partner Alex Rebkowski

MAXIMIZING ai INVESTMENTS: tURNING POTENTIAL INTO PROFIT

Many companies continue to face a gap between AI investment and realized business value.


ADAPTOVATE helps organizations bridge this gap by focusing on three critical pillars for AI success: identifying and prioritizing high-impact initiatives, building internal talent and capabilities, and establishing rigorous measurement frameworks to track outcomes.

OKRS.

THE BENEFITS FROM SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING AN OKR FRAMEWORK.


We shed some insights from the lessons we've learned from three different industries: Retail, Financial Services and Energy.

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How do organizations understand and embed AI into their systems and processes to better serve customers and employees?

ADAPTOVATE helps organizations rapidly identify AI value opportunities, operationalize responsible AI governance, and integrate AI into existing processes through agile pilots and scalable capability uplift. The focus is on practical activation - embedding AI where it delivers measurable customer and employee impact.

Find out more about AI through are specialist section written by our experts.

How do organizations organize via business models and ways of working to generate rapid business improvement and sustained growth?

ADAPTOVATE transforms business models and ways of working using agile principles, end-to-end customer journey redesign, and enterprise-wide operating model shifts. This approach delivers both rapid efficiency improvements and enduring growth by hardwiring adaptability, customer centricity, and cross-functional collaboration. Learn more of our capabilities by visiting our menu : Key Approaches.

How do organizations embed sustainability and governance for lasting growth?

ADAPTOVATE guides organizations in embedding sustainability and governance by aligning business strategy to ESG outcomes, designing operating models that integrate accountability, and delivering transformation programs that unlock commercial growth through sustainable practices. The result is tangible value creation tied to long-term stakeholder trust.

Find out more about Sustainability and ESG through our specialist section written by our experts.

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The Back Story – Jacob Thacker
Our The Back Story interview this month features Jacob Thacker from our team in the US.
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Our latest insights on Artificial Intelligence:

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What is Web3?

ADAPTOVATE insights to get your team thinking about implementing Web 3.0 strategies across your organization

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GenAI for All: Non-Tech Sectors Reaping Big Rewards

Generative AI (GenAI) is no longer the exclusive tool of tech companies; it’s becoming a game-changer across non-tech industries by enhancing customer and employee experiences, enhancing operational efficiency and fostering innovation.

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Download – ADAPTOVATE Capability Uplift Introduction

Download now. ADAPTOVATE’s multi-modal coaching and mobile-first learning map directly to commercial goals, build lasting habits and mindsets, and prove impact with platform analytics – scaling across teams and regions.

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AI Capability Uplift: Turning Pilots into Performance in 6 to 12 Weeks 

Many organizations still treat AI as a tech upgrade. The commercial value shows up only when leaders invest in people, reshape ways of working, and scale capability deliberately. In a recent conversation,...

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AI in the Education Sector – 7 key issues

Download our whitepaper on AI in the Education Sector. While originated in Australia, the implications and challenges for the Education sector is of global interest.

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Helping you transform your enterprise

We believe that in order to win in challenging environments, companies need to continuously adapt and innovate. We partner with our clients to embed new ways of working supported by cultural change, to deliver sustained success. We have successfully delivered Agile at Scale transformations in large organisations, in individual business units, and start-ups.

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Digital Transformations

Transform your business to meet the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. 

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Transform your organisational processes through advanced tech.

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Ensuring organisations focus their efforts to do more without increasing spending to gain a competitive edge.

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Business Agility 

Helping companies become more nimble and responsive to the ever-changing marketplace. 

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Business Operating Model Design

This service involves the development of a business model for your company.

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Human-centred Design

Improve how organizations respond better to market disruptions through innovative products and services

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Executive and Team Coaching

Helping organizations improve the way they work together. 

Operating Model Design

A business operating model determines how a company can deliver value to the customer in line with their strategy. An agile operating model aims to achieve this using agile ways of working.

Locations

USA

US Headquarters

695 Town Center Dr, Suite 1100

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

+1 424 543 2623

growth_US@adaptovate.com

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

Sydney


L12 50 Carrington Street

Sydney NSW 2000

+61 2 7200 2530

Melbourne


Suite 22-125 120 Spencer Street,

Melbourne VIC 3000

+61 2 7200 2530


Canberra

Suite 3, Ground Floor/65 Canberra Ave

Griffith ACT 2603

+61 2 7200 2530

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau)


Level 4, ACS House, 3 Ferncroft Street,

Grafton, Auckland 1010

New Zealand

SINGAPORE

20 Collyer Quay, Level 12,

Singapore

+65 98348486

POLAND

ul. Czackiego 15/17

00 -043 Warszawa

+48 505 626 416

CANADA

296 Richmond St. West

Toronto, ON M5V 1X2


Canada

+1 647 631 1205

UK

5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street

London W1W 5PF

+44 20 3603 1662

PHILIPPINES

19th Floor, Two Neo Building

3rd Avenue corner 28th Street

Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City

+65 98348486

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