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People Management
The Perils of Defensive Organizing
Declan Fitzsimons, Jennifer Petriglieri, Gianpiero Petriglieri
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction to leaders’ own anxiety—a way of avoiding true self-reflection by making the organization the…
Improvement Tools
The Real Return-to-Office Debate Is About AI
Gleb Tsipursky

On a Tuesday morning, a support agent in Dublin closes a tricky ticket while an engineer in Bengaluru ships a fix, and a sales manager in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, joins a customer call spanning four time zones. None of them set foot in the same building, yet the work clicks.

New findings in the GoTo and Workplace Intelligence Pulse of Work 2025 show 51% of employees expect…

Customer Care
A Blueprint for Keeping Humans in Control of AI
Katie Gilbert

William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious moment—just two months before ChatGPT publicly launched in November 2022, exploding widely held understandings of what machines can do.

Even as Overman began enlisting AI for his research, he grew wary of where the technology was headed. “This isn’t only about the apocalyptic…

QMS and Standards
The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own QMS
Etienne Nichols

Most early-stage medical device companies never decide to skip a quality management system (QMS). They just never decide to buy one. The founding team opens a shared drive, builds a spreadsheet for design inputs and outputs, starts a document register in another tab, and agrees to sort out the real system closer to submission. On the invoice, that approach costs nothing. But that zero is…

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Painter Bob Ross taught us that “happy accidents” can make beautiful art. Happy accidents also…
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A problem shows up, and the fix usually arrives five minutes later. “We need more training.” “We…
The Secret Keys to a Great Pitch
Mike Figliuolo
People pitch ideas all the time. Most of those pitches never get heard. Why? Because they don’t…
The Most Dangerous Sentence in Manufacturing
Konstantin Saifoulline
It’s one of the most dangerous sentences you can hear on a factory floor: “The drawing is updated,…
Lithium Batteries May Help Unravel Mystery of Ancient Papyrus Scrolls
Ron Cowen
Four years ago, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Cyrus Daugherty…
ISO 9001:2026 Ethics and Quality Culture
William A. Levinson
Leadership responsibility is included in ISO 9001:2026, Clause 5.1.1,  to promote quality culture…
What Do AI and Jurassic Park Have in Common?
Megan Wallin-Kerth, Greg Hutchins
Given that AI has been this century’s biggest disruptor for nearly every industry in the world, it…
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New EcoMeter XS Dosing System From Dürr
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Enviropass Releases 2026 Product Environmental Compliance Findings
(Enviropass Expertise Inc.: Mount Royal, QC) -- Enviropass Expertise, a Canadian environmental…
ISO Adopts Paris Statement
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted the Paris…
AI4RVI Launches Edgevision, an NVIDIA-Powered Remote Visual Inspection System
(AI4RVI Inc.: Chester, NJ) -- AI4RVI has announced the launch of Edgevision, a next-generation…
Expanding Nanopositioning Options With Bi-Phase Piezo Motors
(PI: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI) is expanding its bi-phase inertia drive (BIX)…
Fast Company Honors World’s First Fleet-Capable Downward-Drilling Robot
(DEWALT: Towson, MD) -- DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand renowned for innovation on the…
Avalue Expands AI Computing Portfolio
(Avalue Technology: Marlboro, NJ) -- As artificial intelligence expands across industrial…
Fluor Joint Venture Selected for LNG Canada Phase 2 Expansion
(Fluor: Irving, TX) -- Fluor Corp. has announced that its joint venture with JGC Corp. has been…
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