ISA106 started with the goal of developing standards, recommended practices, and technical reports on the design and implementation of procedures for automating continuous process operations. The ...

Digital technology is improving enterprise performance in game-changing ways. According to a recent Harvard Business School report, digitalization—the integrated use of analytics, big data, the cloud, ...

Digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are some examples of rapidly developing areas of technology that will have a big impact on how ...

Innovation is not about creating something entirely new; it’s about transforming existing products into a unique solution to address a real-world problem. Process innovation cannot be achieved unless ...

Operations are all about management. Management is how business works internally. Operations are meant to promote two main things in a business: effectiveness and efficiency. So when the operations ...

All business owners and managers want to be able to increase their company’s efficiency. One of the ways people do so is by seeking ways to streamline a business’s processes, workflows and operations.

All too often, a stellar marketing team finds itself handicapped by an inefficient tech stack. Without the right platforms in place, B2B teams must wade through dirty data and siloed processes — ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

The strategic administration of production processes and personnel to maximize output, minimize errors and continually enhance product quality come under the general banner of "operations management." ...

Based on numerous conversations with CISOs, I’ve learned there is widespread interest in automating and orchestrating security operations. In fact, lots of enterprises are already doing so. According ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I teach growth leaders how to grow revenues, profits and firm value. The emergence of complex technology enabled selling systems – ...

In Army headquarters, commanders frequently leave a meeting without the knowledge they need to know to make decisions. This is mostly the result of insufficient or incomplete running estimates. Staffs ...