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Ram Charan unveils AI‑driven manufacturing playbook promising 10% cash‑flow gains
Renowned advisor Ram Charan has released a new manufacturing playbook that leverages AI to generate immediate cash‑flow improvements. He advises CEOs to map the entire value chain, pinpoint cash traps and deploy low‑cost AI tools such as ChatGPT analyses of vendor data, aiming for roughly ten‑percent savings. The framework also calls for aggressive pricing and a reassessment of China‑dependency.
Ookla has formed a strategic partnership with Imagine Wireless to help airport leaders steer digital transformation. The alliance merges Ookla’s network measurement suite—including Speedtest Insights, Speedtest Certified and Ekahau—with Imagine Wireless’s advisory services, delivering independent validation for private 5G, Wi‑Fi and public cellular networks. Targeting the aviation sector, now the second‑largest consumer of mobile services, the collaboration enables airports to define enforceable service‑level agreements and support emerging use cases such as autonomous vehicles. Ultimately, the partnership aims to future‑proof airport connectivity and accelerate modernization initiatives.
Your Contact Center is generating a goldmine of unstructured data, but if it isn't hitting your Service Management platform, your Product and IT teams are flying blind. AI is the bridge that turns a customer complaint into an automated internal...
🤖 Agentic AI design patterns are not features — they are operating models. This graphic lists the Top 6 Agentic AI design patterns. Useful. But the real value is knowing when each pattern should exist in production. Here’s the executive...
In the digital era, leadership is moving from command‑and‑control to orchestrating a trustworthy ecosystem of people, machines, and processes. The article outlines an "agentic" model that distributes decision rights, adopts policy‑first delegation, and embeds transparency and ethical guardrails. Structural changes...
AI’s most powerful economic effect is lowering the cost of translating disparate data and workflows, not merely automating prediction or creation. By extracting structure from unstructured sources, AI creates a shared, real‑time view that lets teams coordinate without agreeing on...
In this episode of the MRP Easy Manufacturing Podcast, Sarah Duff, commercial director of Smart Manufacture, explains how small and mid‑size manufacturers can mitigate the current talent shortage by improving their systems rather than hiring more staff. She highlights that...
🔴 Red Tape is quietly killing innovation in your business. Here's how. Let me be blunt. In most companies I've worked with — across continents, across industries — the biggest enemy of innovation isn't a lack of ideas. It's bureaucracy. Red tape. The...
AI adoption remains uneven, with only a quarter of surveyed firms naming AI as a primary driver of business strategy by the end of 2025, though that share more than doubled from early 2025. Fifty‑five percent say AI influences strategic...
Advantage Utilities has been crowned Consultancy of the Year for Large Customers at the 2025 TELCA Awards, recognizing its rapid rise in the UK hotel sector. The firm delivered more than £500,000 in energy savings within two years for a...
Betsy Jordyn introduces the C.A.R.E. framework—Connect, Ask, Reframe, Encourage—as an ethical, partnership‑based approach for consultants and coaches to influence clients without positional authority. The model emphasizes deep human connection, strategic questioning, reframing client concerns into clear themes, and supportive encouragement...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects continue to suffer cost overruns and muted business value, not because of technology limits but due to weak governance structures. Rajesh Arangamany proposes a five‑layer, governance‑centric framework that aligns strategic objectives, capability models, architectural accountability,...
China didn’t compete. It demolished entire industries through one ruthless strategy: build massive scale, use subsidies and currency manipulation, export at prices no one can match. Furniture, Solar Panels, Telecom Infrastructure, Textiles, Toys, etc. Gone. And 10 more industries are already under attack. My...
The February 2026 Lean Roundup aggregates ten fresh blog posts that explore how Lean thinking is evolving across leadership, strategy, and technology. Highlights include "good trouble" as a catalyst for cultural change, the discipline of Leader Standard Work, and the...
The 2026 Slalom AI Research Report shows a paradox: 68 % of leaders feel they can keep pace with AI, yet 93 % cite underdeveloped skills and inadequate training as major barriers. Deploying AI tools alone isn’t delivering results; the capability gap...
Job architecture redesign has long been a multi‑year, document‑heavy effort that leaves organizations lagging behind fast‑moving business needs. The article argues that the bottleneck is the outdated, sequential method rather than resistance to change. By swapping manual workshops for AI‑driven...
MWC energy is building. In just a few days, we’re back in Barcelona, where connectivity, AI, policy, and enterprise transformation converge on one global stage. I’ll be on the ground at #MWC26 tracking how intelligent infrastructure, AI-native networks, and real-world enterprise...
New data reveals AI governance gap between policy and practice, creating ESG risks - Thomson Reuters Institute “While 76% of companies with an AI strategy reported management-level oversight, only 41% made their AI policies accessible to employees or required their...
In this episode of So What from BCG, Georgie Frost talks with Khadija Benhamada, former Chief of Staff and now Chief People Officer at Merck, and Judith Wallenstein, Global Leader of BCG’s CEO Advisory Practice, about how to deliberately build...
This week had Claude 4.6, Infosys AI agents, $110B India commitments. The concept orbiting everything? Critical thinking. The more capable the tools, the more human judgment becomes the bottleneck. No model ships with that installed. https://t.co/FRigdorIpW
Every data conversation I tracked this week led back to the same concept. Data Governance. Not as compliance. As the center of gravity. 47 data sources. 6 different owners. 3 definitions of "customer." Your AI agent has no idea who to believe. https://t.co/ZrW6iptSqs
Synpulse announced the promotion of Marcel Loetscher to Senior Partner and Joel Smith to Partner within its Commercial Insurance, Reinsurance, ILS and Delegated Authority (CRID) practice. Loetscher, a 16‑year veteran who founded the New York office, will now head the...
Moving Beyond "Simple" Content: The Reality of Enterprise AI by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/hIAlV4hbey @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialInteligence #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews
Question for your next leadership meeting: “If we could only deploy AI for our three most important inference workloads, which three would they be?” What would your team say?
Everest Group’s new whitepaper reveals that automation cannot fully resolve the complexities of global hiring, emphasizing the need for human judgment alongside technology. The report categorizes Employer of Record (EOR) providers into three maturity levels, highlighting a shift toward strategic...
New York City And State Have Passed AI Laws—Now Communities Must Lead | Health Affairs Forefront https://t.co/VCtymavrCr #NY #NYC #AIGovernance
Everyone’s watching which LLM wins benchmarks. I’m watching Informatica suddenly show up everywhere. GCP coverage up 200%. The enterprise data stack isn’t being replaced by AI. It’s becoming the delivery mechanism for AI. The boring infrastructure is now the moat. https://t.co/9dxQv330NZ
"Fortescue Stakes Its Future on a Billion Dollar Green Pivot in the Pilbara" https://t.co/NNU6MWp1YM @FortescueNews #Fortescue
70% of executives say they have difficulty acting on data. Meanwhile, Power BI just won the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant. Again. The tools keep getting better. The problem isn’t the tools. It never was. Source: https://t.co/KNtNLIRTOQ https://t.co/ZOAPhWZKSf
The Legacy Friction: Integrating Intelligence into Iron - the structural, technical, and cultural resistance that occurs when you try to integrate 21st-century autonomous intelligence into 20th-century physical iron. https://t.co/6dgJ5aZe4w
80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier @Microsoft has released its latest Cyber Pulse report, offering practical insights into emerging cybersecurity risks as AI agents become embedded in everyday business operations. https://t.co/nYODu6iNVB...
A complete team needs diverse skills. Avoid only having SAP gurus or ops experts. Mix seasoned pros with fresh perspectives for a successful S/4HANA transformation. #TeamBuilding #SAP #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/hlYw6dVy3X
#TimTalk - Many people view curiosity as a “soft skill” you argue it’s a “strategic imperative” why is this? with Dr. Debra Clary https://t.co/FNshO7hVg4 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management
Bad strategy pretends to predict the future. Good strategy improves your position every month. Responsiveness is the advantage. : #Strategy #Leadership #Business https://t.co/EAzG89BayF
Why are you running separate AI stacks for your employees and your customers? The "service" logic is the same. Convergence between the Contact Center and ITSM is the only way to achieve true operational velocity. Stop managing silos; start managing...
.@Workday falling 10% after giving below estimates 2027 guidance is no sigh of relief for SaaS sector. Once again folks, no amount of vibe coding can produce complex systems like HCM, CRM, or SCM. Besides migration costs in such scenarios...
My take: CIOs are not (yet) showing any interesting in vibe coding or spec coding their own CRM or ERP. However, there is appetite — and growing quickly — for using AI to much more seamlessly integrate other systems with core...
How to build autonomous AI agents in 2026 👇 1️⃣ Define the job 2️⃣ Choose model (Rule / LLM+Tools / Hybrid) 3️⃣ Embed via APIs 4️⃣ Enable goal-based autonomy 5️⃣ Add safety controls 6️⃣ Track ROI & optimize AI isn’t just chat anymore. It’s embedded, autonomous, and operational....
The Generative AI stack is evolving fast — but its foundation remains the same. This Gartner visual breaks down the four essential layers powering today’s AI ecosystem: • Infrastructure – Compute, storage, and the platforms that make AI possible •...
I've watched so many user researchers try to win over business analysts by talking about understanding users, empathy, better experiences. And I've watched those same BAs completely ignore them. Because BAs fundamentally don't care about users. At least not in the...
New tech, same enterprise playbook: @OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances partner program https://t.co/yEKHI4YUFy OpenAI announced Frontier Alliances, which is a set of system integrators and consultants aimed at deploying "AI coworkers" across enterprises. https://t.co/fOh7eg2rwh
$META is and has been in the chip business. It will build and buy and make sure it has ample compute to achieve its AI era ambitions. 👀🚀 https://t.co/1qcNqVVws8
Scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of smart cameras? Bandwidth chokes fast if everything streams 24/7 Edge compute flips the script: process locally, send just metadata, pull video only when it matters. Cleaner networks, smarter ops across retail, warehouses, even healthcare. Solid demo...
When decisions depend on milliseconds, moving data closer to where work happens matters. Edge computing and edge AI are reshaping manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and smart infrastructure, where latency, autonomy, and reliability are critical. More: https://t.co/0MYapoejKN @TMobileBusiness Partner
1/ Today’s enterprise tech news wasn’t about features. It’s about a structural shift. @AnthropicAI launches enterprise agents. @Veeam introduces AI recovery. @IBM embeds agents across software. New firms building AI visibility layers. All points to a key new trend… 🧵👇 https://t.co/GvaoSt4t37
It turns out that tech output productivity has tilted up sharply the last couple of years. It’s clear that there is now a new ghost in the machine. And it looks a whole lot like an LLM. https://t.co/L5RyHkXXgh
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 10 Reasons Why Organizational Silos Leak Efficiency and ROI https://t.co/BJ7Lp8BpTC via @LinkedIn #data #digitaltransformation #AI #leadership #businessstrategy
📈 The Board is over "Red, Yellow, Green" charts. They want financial risk quantification. Moving from technical metrics to business risk is the #1 theme for CIOs at RSA this year. Stop reporting on "threats" and start reporting on "impact."...
How machine learning reframes KPI design: systems optimize relentlessly. So the real leadership question isn’t “Are we tracking performance?” It’s “Are we tracking the right signals?” https://t.co/FfVafJZaUk via @mitsmr #AI #MWC26 https://t.co/qKrkhqgMNN
The AI SEO transformation requires a decades-old proven playbook: Organizational change management. https://t.co/S1mGzgdyUf via @Kevin_Indig, @sejournal
How could you use no-code AI to boost your projects? Top 10 Machine Learning Trends to Watch in 2025 https://t.co/e65AsSHtq4 #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #WMC26 #5G
