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.

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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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Most transformations don’t fail from bad strategy—they stall from weak culture. Discover how architecting culture as operating infrastructure unlocks resilience, adaptability, and scale beyond technology
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Our latest insights on Artificial Intelligence:

Mastering AI: A Strategic Framework for Meaningful Transformation 

Paul McNamara discusses balancing enthusiasm with strategic investment when implementing AI solutions in organizations.

ChatGPT – Breaking Down The Hype

What is ChatGPT? What does it all mean. We break it down and what it could mean for business.

ADAPTOVATE Selected for NSW Government’s Revolutionary AI in Planning Initiative 

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that ADAPTOVATE, a leading innovator in the technology sector, has been selected by the NSW Government for its groundbreaking initiative to bring planning into the 21st Century.

Customer Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Download our e-book on Customer Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Critically, to stay relevant to customers, it’s now up to business leaders to have the vision, leadership and employee buy-in, to provide better quality products for customers using the latest technology – AI – by being more productive, more efficient and more creative.

Navigating the AI Revolution – E-book

This e-book explores implications of AI adoption on corporate leadership and team culture, addressing common concerns and providing practical strategies for businesses to navigate this technological transition effectively.

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Being an ‘ADAPTOVATOR’ means being part of an incredible team and having opportunities for personal and professional growth. Find out more about the benefits of working for ADAPTOVATE and the positions we have available.

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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.

Digital Transformations

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

Transform your organisational processes through advanced tech.

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

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

Business Operating Model Design

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

Human-centred Design

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

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.

Are you undertaking a Business Transformation? Or about to? We can help guide you through the process of conducting a maturity assessment.  

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In order to understand the world around us and make informed decisions, it is important to have a global perspective.

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