A Sip of Conflict
If the water is potable but the setting is repulsive, you haven't optimized the process; you've just bolted a high-performance tool to a fundamentally broken context.
AI-Driven Business Transformation: How AI is Shaping the Future of Business Transformation.
As one of six contributors, my role in this report was to ground AI in decision-making, while the report itself brings together multiple perspectives to show how AI is reshaping businesses and where most organizations still aren’t ready for it.
Keynote - The Intelligent Factory: Why Manufacturing Needs a New Operating Model
Keynote at ProveIt! 2026
The Intelligent Factory: Why Manufacturing Needs a New Operating Model
From Guessing to Knowing: The Case for Operational Clarity
A perspective on how operational visibility reshapes understanding, decision-making, and ultimately performance.
The State of Industrial AI in 2025: Capability Is Easy. Scaling Is Hard.
The story of Industrial AI in 2025 is simple: lots of capability, very little scale. The next advantage belongs to the companies that can operationalize trust.
When a Powerful Tool Starts to Look Like a Universal One
Power has a way of simplifying how we see the world. Once something feels capable enough, it quietly reshapes how problems are framed, discussed, and prioritized. What begins as momentum can end as misdirection if discernment doesn’t keep pace.
Humanoid Robots are Closer Than We Think
Humanoid robots are closer than the debate suggests, because the real bottleneck is no longer intelligence.
The Hardest Part of AI Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Letting Go.
Most AI initiatives fail not because the technology isn’t smart enough, but because organizations never decide which decisions they’re willing to let go of.
perma POWERTALK #05: What’s Next for Maintenance?
Episode 5 of perma POWERTALK with Fred Ritenauer
Prescriptive AI in the Factory: Accessible for SMEs or Enterprise-Only?
IIoT-World Panel focusing on how Industrial AI is already delivering measurable value in manufacturing, but success depends far less on the technology itself and far more on data readiness, clear ownership, trust in decisions, and the ability to integrate AI into how the business actually operates.
Stop Letting the Gods Decide: Why Data Driven Leadership Is Becoming Manufacturing’s Real Power
A Game of Thrones–inspired look at why modern manufacturers can’t compete by relying on instinct, hierarchy, or “the gods” to make decisions, and how data, AI, and real visibility finally give leaders the power to shape their own destiny.
When CIOs and COOs Collide: Why AI Is Creating Tension Everywhere
AI now touches employees, departments, and enterprise value all at once, sparking friction between CIOs, COOs, and everyone in between unless companies align on how work truly changes.
The 1925 Invention That Explains Today’s AI Chaos
The real challenge isn’t blocking out AI noise, but sharpening the strategic signal that actually matters.
Model Context Protocol: The Glue That Binds and the Crack That Breaks
Generative AI gave us smart answers.
Agentic AI gives us autonomous action.
That jump is massive… and dangerous.
The Industrial AI Implementation Process
Your Guide to Industrial AI Implementation
Moving from Linear to Intelligent Production Planning
Spreadsheets don’t win supply chains; intelligence does; the winners will be those who replace static rows and columns with living systems that think, learn, and respond.
The Rise of the CAIO (Chief AI Officer)
AI is rewriting the rules of competition; the Chief AI Officer is the editor-in-chief.
The AI Hamster Wheel
Measuring speed means nothing if direction never changes
The Art, and Risk, of Misplaced Priorities in the Age of AI
Some companies are masters at setting priorities… just not the right ones.
What Comes After Digital Transformation?
You've transformed your tech. Now transform your yhinking