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Improving Profitability with Sales & Operations Planning
Many companies and executives are simply unaware of this powerful business process. Most of the time it is partially applied in an unstructured way…
Strategy means nothing without Execution
Like in the Nike slogan “Just do it”, don’t over analyse – it could be as simple as that! Yet many companies spend a great deal of resources strategizing…
Europe's regulator delayed the AI deadline. Companies celebrated. They shouldn't.
The EU AI Act hasn't gone away. The European Commission moved the deadline for high-risk systems from August 2026 to December 2027.
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Your factory will have AI agents making decisions. But who's accountable when the agent gets it wrong?
For years, AI in industrial operations meant the system suggests and a human approves, the human is accountable. That model is being replaced.
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The talent crisis in manufacturing isn't an HR problem. It's a strategy problem.
Every industrial company has an automation plan. Very few have a workforce plan that keeps pace with it.
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85% of industrial companies can't measure productivity. The other 15% grow 13.9% above their peers.
Productivity is the most spoken word in any operations meeting. And the least rigorously measured.
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The knowledge that runs your factory is close to retiring. And you still don't have a plan.
Think about the senior maintenance technician in your operation. When they leave, what goes with them?
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Brazilian industry is 14% below its peak. And 15 years have passed.
In February 2026, Brazilian industrial output grew 0.9%. A positive headline that hid a structural number.
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70% of transformations fail. And no one changes the method.
The figure is brutally stable: 70% of corporate transformations fail. The technology has changed. The method hasn't.
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One year of Liberation Day.
89,000 manufacturing jobs lost. And your supply chain, did it survive?
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AI won't replace managers. It will keep them from being developed.
Everyone debates whether AI will replace managers. Almost no one debates what happens when it keeps new managers from being developed.
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