Innovation often comes from outside an organization. Why? “Outsiders” have fresh eyes and are not undoing something from the inside. As discussed last week, people are comfortable with things staying ...

Continuous improvement incorporates all the daily actions that ultimately move toward attaining goals. While goals can feel high risk, far off, and difficult to attain, daily actions feel lower risk, ...

When planning cultural change, the first question often asked is, "Who owns the cultural transformation initiative in an organization?" This can be a contentious question, with common answers pointing ...

Building agility into your team’s approaches can help your organization adapt to fast-changing conditions from within or even external ones. A key part of this that has benefited many of my consulting ...

Though industrial automation professionals are not lacking in three-letter acronyms for the technologies they use, it’s time to make way for a new one—DPM, which stands for digital performance ...

Prolonged uncertainty doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon. In fact, it's become our new normal. Against this backdrop of persistent ambiguity, many business leaders now find themselves ...

We often like to think of life—and of progress—as a straightforward path, but we know there’s peaks and valleys or times when we take one step forward and two steps back. That’s why Dick Flynt, senior ...