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AI Readiness and Applied Intelligence
Practical guidance for making AI useful in industrial operations, from assessing readiness and fixing fragmented data to choosing valuable use cases, designing human-in-the-loop pilots, and turning applied intel into measurable outcomes
Frequency: Occasional
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AIM-Square
Vision for AI/ML enabled decision-making in Manufacturing industry
Frequency: Weekly
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23 June 202615 min readThe Steel Industry's AI Moment Has Three Speeds — And Business Teams Are Stuck in First Gear
AI in steel is ready. The bottleneck is business teams. Explore a three-tier taxonomy: Assist, Replace, Unthinkable, across every function of an integrated steel plant.
20 June 20265 min readAgentic AI in Steel: Why Your Plant Already Has the Data, But Not the Decisions
Your plant doesn't have a data problem. It has a 40-minute problem: the gap between something changing on the floor and someone actually acting on it. Here's what agentic AI really closes in steel manufacturing, and the five questions worth asking before your next AI budget cycle.
15 June 202610 min readUnlocking AI's Potential in the Steel Industry
Discover how hands-on experience and data-driven strategies in steel production can unlock AI's potential for operational efficiency and innovation.
Business Operations Advisory
Practical, plant-grounded insights for turning operational complexity into better decisions, stronger execution, and measurable business value—from shop-floor reality to transformation roadmaps.
Frequency: Occasional
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19 September 202611 min readTurn a Vague Business Problem Into a Roadmap in 3 Weeks
"Fix planning" isn't a scope. Here's a disciplined three-week process — frame, study, sequence — that turns it into a fundable roadmap.
18 September 202611 min readOperating Model vs. Org Chart: Why They're Different
A reorg can redraw the chart and change nothing. Here's the difference between an org chart and the operating model that actually governs behavior.
17 September 202611 min readFive Questions Before You Trust "We're Fine"
"We're fine" is rarely a lie, just incomplete. Five specific questions that reliably surface what a plant summary quietly leaves out.
Decision Intelligence Framework
A practical series on decision intelligence, AI strategy, and human-centred transformation for manufacturing enterprises.
Frequency: Occasional
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11 September 202611 min readWhy "More Data" Is the Wrong Fix for Operational Gaps
Before funding another data project, test whether you actually have a data problem or an ownership problem. A two-week diagnostic that tells you.
23 August 202619 min readPart V: Autonomous Enterprise · Chapter 20 · Decision Intelligence for Manufacturing: A Practical Enterprise Roadmap
Explore a practical roadmap for building manufacturing decision intelligence through discovery, evidence, decision products, governance, bounded autonomy, learning, and scale.
22 August 202616 min readPart V: Autonomous Enterprise · Chapter 19 · Scaling Manufacturing AI from Pilots to Transformation
Discover how scaling manufacturing AI changes incentives, policies, local variation, ownership, and support; copying a pilot is not transformation.
Lessons for Life
Bits of Life, and Learning, Appreciation for Divinity and Humanity
Frequency: Occasional
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19 February 20225 min readRamu bhaiyya - A big-hearted Autowala
During a stressful evening at Mumbai's crowded Dadar station, the author missed his train after being stopped by police and then discovered his pocket had been picked, leaving him stranded with almost no money. A kind-hearted auto-rickshaw driver, Ramu Bhaiyya, recognized his plight, drove him back to safety without demanding payment, and reminded him that genuine humanity often shines brightest among ordinary people.
25 July 20205 min readShoo away the dogs!
During a routine lockdown-era morning walk to buy milk, the author stumbled upon a strange roadside ritual involving lemons, seeds, flowers, and broken pots, allegedly performed to ward off COVID-19 through superstition and black magic. Amused and skeptical, he later watched a security guard clear away the offerings and feed them to stray calves, reflecting on the persistence of irrational beliefs even during a modern pandemic.
22 March 20195 min readA Good Samaritan - Story of a Rare Compassionate Old Man
While waiting for a delayed train at a busy Chennai railway station, the author became intrigued by an elderly man who appeared distressed and ultimately missed his own train. Later, he learned that the old man had selflessly stayed behind to guard the luggage of a stranger's family whose baby had been rushed to a hospital, demonstrating a rare act of compassion and responsibility in an age when most people hesitate to trust strangers.
Project Pulse AI
Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming project management, enterprise systems, leadership, and operations into intelligent, adaptive, and human-centered ecosystems
Frequency: Weekly
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18 July 202610 min readJourney-Based Product Teams: Why Org Charts Fail Customers
Organizations built around internal functions ship working systems that still fail customers, because nobody owns the journey between the systems. This piece argues for cross-functional, journey-owning product teams accountable for outcomes, not deliverables, and lays out a practical way to get there.
13 July 202617 min readThe Death of the "IT Project" - Governance and Funding for Programmes That Never Close
Programmes are now continuous product/platform journeys. What does governance look like when there's no end date? Funding models (project-based vs. persistent teams) are being rethought too.
3 July 202610 min readThe Governance Compact: Why Information Integrity Is the Load-Bearing Wall of Every Large Programme
A ten-part series, from the PM's quiet instinct to select Green, to the cascade nobody saw coming, to the view from the other side of the table, and what it actually takes to build a programme where honest information flows by design and not by heroics.
The Decision-ready Supply Chain
Explore the indices that matter—from reliability and resilience to quality, demand, margin, efficiency, and working capital—helping supply-chain leaders turn fragmented data into clearer decisions and stronger performance.
Frequency: Occasional
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- 11 September 202611 min read
Why "More Data" Is the Wrong Fix for Operational Gaps
Before funding another data project, test whether you actually have a data problem or an ownership problem. A two-week diagnostic that tells you. 
8 September 202617 min readChapter 15 : From Hidden Trade-offs to Decision Intelligence: Building a Decision-Ready Supply Chain
Learn how to make supply-chain trade-offs visible across working capital, resilience, service, margin, manufacturing efficiency, and supplier concentration and how to progress from fragmented supply-chain data to trusted indices, predictive risk signals, and governed recommendations through a practical maturity model.
7 September 202616 min readChapter 14 : Keeping Supply Chain Indices Honest
Composite indices only earn trust through traceable data, versioned rules, visible weights, independent review, gaming controls, and governed AI explanations.