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More Sustainable Operations Are Also More Profitable – to the Tune of 23%
Leaders are proving that embedding sustainability into day-to-day operations delivers returns in the form of operating profit, net profit, and gross margins.
What the Pope Can Teach Us About Agentic AI
With echoes of a papal warning from 135 years ago, the Pope’s recent paper offers supply chain leaders key tenets on managing both the upsides and downsides of agentic AI now.
College Grads Are Anxious About AI. Here’s How Operations Leaders Can Help
Leaders can turn campus anxiety into adoption momentum with small-scale initiatives like project-based work and updating internship roles.
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State of the COO 2026
Bridge the gap between your CEO’s bold AI commitments and operational reality with lessons from COOs already delivering AI returns.
Six Technologies Driving the Next Industrial Revolution
Zero100 reveals how software, connectivity, energy, data, compute, and AI will determine which organizations thrive in the next decade.
Field Notes
Acting Quickly Matters but So Does Acting on the Right Signal: 5 Steps to True Demand Visibility
Which signals deserve to change your plan? Knowing the answer enables the right – not just speedy – action.
Agentic AI Won’t Work in Sourcing Until We Redesign the Work Itself
To make agentic execution work, sourcing leaders must build workflows that agents can actually navigate.
Mission-Ready Data: What Space Systems Teach Us About Scaling Agentic AI
Agentic AI – and scaling it for tangible value – requires data that is safe enough to act on, not just clean enough to report.
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