Recent Research: Research Agenda: Bridging Leadership and Labor – 3Sixty Insights’ 2026 Combined Workforce Agenda This Combined Workforce Agenda outlines the key research priorities for 2026 from 3Sixty Insights, focusing on how organizations can bridge leadership strategy and employee experience in the modern workplace. The agenda integrates perspectives from two analysts — Nicole Roberts and Dylan Teggart — each with complementary emphases on organizational leadership capability, workforce strategy, labor market dynamics, and technology-enabled work execution. Analyst Insight: California Labor Laws and Compliance: Burden, Benchmark, or Competitive Advantage? This Analyst Insight examines the widely held perception that California’s labor laws make the state unusually difficult for businesses to operate in. While the analysis finds that California does impose more complex compliance requirements than most U.S. states, […]
Conga Connect 2026
Why AI Governance Requires Narrative Alignment
A Simple Example That Isn’t So Simple Pulling on another thread from Conga Connect 2026, one of the more interesting conversations I had during the week was with Geoff Webb, VP Product and Portfolio Marketing at Conga. While much of the event focused on pricing, workflows, and AI embedded into revenue systems, our discussion kept circling a deceptively simple example that revealed a much larger issue. We started talking about NDAs. Not complex contracts or pricing strategy. Just NDAs. As Geoff pointed out, these are among the most common documents in any deal process, and yet they regularly slow things down. A rep sends one over, legal reviews it, questions come back, revisions happen, and what should be routine turns into delay. This is exactly […]
Market Alert: Inside Conga’s Purple Pivot – A B2B Rebrand Done Right
I was at Conga Connect 2026 last week and had the chance to witness something you don’t see very often in B2B technology. A brand redesign revealed live to customers. Not teased on social media. Not rolled out quietly through a press release. But introduced directly from the keynote stage to the people who use the platform every day. I had heard some hints that a brand update might be coming, but like everyone else in the room, I got to see how it unfolded in real time. And looking back, the clues were there from the beginning. Before the keynote even started, something felt slightly off as I walked through the venue. Customers wore the standard conference badges, but Conga employees throughout the event […]
Three Signals About the Future of Revenue Execution from Conga Connect 2026
I spent this past week at Conga Connect 2026, speaking with customers, executives, and operators across the revenue ecosystem. The brand reveal will likely be the moment most attendees remember from the event. I covered that story separately. But in conversations with operators and revenue leaders throughout the week, a different set of signals stood out. They all pointed to the same underlying challenge: revenue teams are still struggling with friction inside the deal process. During the opening session, Conga CMO Celia Fleischaker shared several statistics that framed the scale of the problem. Only 8% of organizations report strong confidence in their pricing decisions. 45% say they lose deals due to slow quote approvals. 72% report that slow contracting increases risk and compliance exposure. […]