Operations and AI Readiness: The Discipline You Can’t Skip
Operations brings the lean discipline that AI implementations desperately need. Waste elimination, metrics culture, and daily standups matter more than algorithms.
Finance and AI Readiness: Speaking in Facts
Finance has been speaking in facts - insisting on data rigor, measuring value, building structures that survive turnover - since before AI was a boardroom topic. Those aren't peripheral skills for AI readiness. They're foundational.
Operational Excellence: The Foundation That Makes AI Transformation Possible
The best AI implementations I've seen started with something unexpected: companies running 15-year-old ERP systems. Not the newest platforms - old, stable systems sitting on decades of clean operational data. Your ancient ERP might be your biggest AI advantage.
What Would a Seasoned Executive Do? How a Virtual Executive Advisor Closes the Gap
It's 3pm Thursday. You need a decision by Monday. You know the frameworks, but your situation is messier than any textbook. What if you had a virtual executive advisor with 40 years of experience available when you're stuck? Here's how applied wisdom bridges the gap between knowing and doing.
5 Building Blocks of an AI-Driven Business: Treasure in the Foundation
Discover how AI and automation transform your entire value chain - from R&D to customer service - into a competitive advantage. Learn practical strategies for building operational excellence that drives growth and positions your business for the AI-driven future.
Balancing Innovation and Practicality: Technology Leadership Insights from the (Off)Road
How do you connect Technical Debt with a Range Rover? A lesson in technology leadership; discover how balancing innovation with practicality in technology can lead to effective leadership and agile business solutions.
Navigating Buzzword Overload: Complexity
Complexity means different things to different people in different conversations. Are we trying to simplify a process? Complexity is bad. Understand a supply chain? Complexity is good. Don't buzzword your initiatives with "complexity" until you get a wee bit more specific.
Digital Transformation on the Manufacturing Floor
Practical Examples of Value Creation: How will digital transformation create real value for a manufacturing company? Let’s use the factory floor as a testbed ...
Simple Ways to Quickly Build Valuable Digital Experience
Practical thoughts and examples - how to manufacture time and attention, to get hands-on, relevant skills in new technologies
3D Printing Requires Wildly Different Thinking
Additive Manufacturing faces slow adoption in most industrial companies due to material costs - and the challenge for designers to think differently about what was previously impossible.