Short pieces on platform strategy, engineering leadership and industrial digital transformation. Everything here comes out of a programme I actually ran, including the parts that did not go to plan.
Most rewrite proposals I have seen were arguments about code that were really arguments about something else. Five questions that surface which one you have.
The pilot works. The rollout does not. After doing this across steel plants in two countries, the failure is almost never the technology.
Moving a 50-year-old engineering firm from drawing boards to BIM. The technology was the easy half.
Not the sales deck. The architecture, the pricing model, the support structure and the security posture — usually in that order, and usually underestimated.
Sitting inside a steelmaker's transition to a public company changes what you consider a metric. A short account of which numbers held up.
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