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The era of the unlimited, always-on, general-purpose AI agent is ending. Subscriptions weren’t priced for behavior that never sleeps, and a monthly plan burning thousands of dollars in computation was never going to survive the unit economics.
If you’ve tried to get an AI pilot…
Happy spring! Here’s a story about “Toast Kaizen” that I’ve never told.
In 1998, as general manager at a medium-size manufacturing company, I created the original toast video for my management team. I was trying to get them out of their offices to “go see” not only the factory…
The era of corporate AI theater is ending. A recent Wharton Human-AI Research and GBK Collective study finds that 82% of enterprise leaders use generative AI at least weekly, and 46% use it daily. That is no longer experimentation.
Yet McKinsey’s 2025 state of AI survey shows a…
I write. And I write a lot. Emails. Blog posts. Books. More books. Articles. Tweets. I’m surprised I don’t have full-on carpal tunnel syndrome. Writing is draining, laborious, frustrating, and tiring.
You should write too.
What? Mike, you just said a whole bunch of negative…
Quality Digest interviewed Kevin Atkins, product manager for Geomagic Freeform at Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division. Atkins has more than 25 years of experience in 3D modeling and sculpting. His understanding of organic design not only helps in development and management of Geomagic’…
On a recent gemba walk, everything looked right. Large digital dashboards lined the production floor, displaying real-time updates on throughput, quality, downtime, and schedule adherence. Metrics were green, trends were stable, and performance was highly visible. By most standards, it was a…