Founder Interview Series
Step inside the studio with Juniper Strategies’ founders in Strategy in Motion, an eight-episode rapid-fire interview series that lifts the curtain on how we diagnose stalled growth, uncover hidden levers in M&A, and bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Each short episode gives you a candid, practical glimpse into the data-driven frameworks and cultural insights that fuel our work.
Founder Interviews
Episode 1: Can Strategy Be Automated?
Despite decades of progress in business analytics, data systems, and automation, most companies do not achieve their goals. The excuses are too numerous to list, and are typically described as improvement goals; faster execution, more sales coverage, better definition or higher employee engagement. These descriptions always have a degree of truth, but years of objective study have shown that the primary reason is the underlying strategy—how a team intended to achieving their goals—is what is at fault. This is not because of a lack of information, but because the strategy creation process remains manual, slow, and disconnected from execution and employee engagement and culture. Juniper Strategies believes it’s time for disruption.
The company is pioneering a new approach to business strategy—one that combines AI, complex mathematical modeling, and operational data to automate strategy design and strengthen engagement and execution. The biggest benefit of this approach is how it empowers internal teams—and the consultants who support them—to develop, test, and execute strategy scenarios with greater speed, accuracy, and impact.
Episode 2: Plateaued Growth
What do you do when your growth engine stalls—and no one can agree why?
Episode 3: Dynamic Strategy
What would you do if your strategy options were unlimited?
Episode 4: Operational Turnaround and Maximizing Valuation
Leading a turnaround or looking to boost valuation? Every decision feels urgent—but not all of them matter.
Episode 5: KPIs That Matter
Your team is hitting the KPIs—but revenue isn’t. Here’s how you fix the broken link.
Episode 6: Buy-Side M&A
Working a buy-side M&A deal? The numbers aren’t the whole story.
Episode 7: Aligning Culture to Strategy
You launched the strategy—but the execution is behind. Is your culture the reason… and how can you align it?
Episode 8: AI for Strategy
Strategic decision-making is entering a new era. While AI tools—especially GenAI—are increasingly available to support leaders address routine, time intensive tasks, most organizations can’t conceive of how more complex work, like that done during strategy development—market assessments, competitive analysis, value creation, can benefit from AI technology. That is often because today’s understanding of AI tools can be clouded by the capabilities and limitations of GenAI offerings in the market. But GenAI should actually be seen as addition to a set of technologies that have been targeting cognitive tasks that include critical judgement and decision making Juniper Strategies proposes a clear path for combing the best of all the emerging technologies: one that blends automation, AI modeling, and human insight into a coherent strategic operating system.
AI shouldn’t replace human judgment in strategy—it should enhance it. Juniper’s proprietary AI Maturity Model outlines how companies can evolve from AI-assisted tasks to AI-driven strategic planning. This conversation unpacks the roles of traditional AI (pattern recognition, forecasting) and GenAI (creative synthesis, scenario generation) and explains how they converge in Juniper’s approach to help internal teams—not consultants—build better strategies, faster.
Beyond the Series: A Deeper Dive
Watch our 15-minute webinar for a detailed look into how Juniper Strategies transforms strategy into fast, data-driven action.
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