Operations News & Insights
Career signals for operations professionals.
Original OperationsCareers articles first, followed by selected headlines across operations, AI, technology, finance, sales, manufacturing and supply chain.
It is not a generic news feed — it is for busy operations professionals who want useful context without scrolling through noise.
Newsletter
The equipment held. The procedure didn't.
87% of operators say their last major outage was preventable. 59% of human-error failures came from procedures not being followed — and 36% from the procedures being wrong. Most organisations respond to both the same way.
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IT Ops
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore
Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
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AI & Ops Roles
SEC moves to rollback shareholder proxy proposal rules
The details of the plan to rescind Rule 14a-8 come on the heels of the SEC’s push to make quarterly reporting by public companies optional.
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AI & Ops Roles
Business execs seize on AI as top tool for decision-making
CFOs are more likely than executives in other functions to lean on AI as source of strategic input, according to a survey.
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AI & Ops Roles
Global AI spend will nearly double in 2026 due to infrastructure demand
For CIOs, investing in AI isn’t always intentional as the technology becomes embedded across products and features, according to a Gartner analyst.
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Newsletter
AI fixed the notes. It didn't fix the meeting
Teams and Zoom now write the summary and pull out the actions. But researchers who sat in on 102 daily meetings found six things going wrong, and not one of them was a problem with the record. Every one is still here
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AI & Ops Roles
OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things
Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?
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AI & Ops Roles
Fed hikes main interest rate by quarter point, citing stubborn inflation
The monetary tightening may spark criticism from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called on the Fed to cut the main interest rate regardless of price pressures.
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Finance Ops
Hub Group hands incoming CFO $1.3M stock award
Hub Group also increased the monthly fee for its interim CFO Todd Heeter to $175K from $125K and will offer Heeter a $1.2 million cash retention bonus.
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IT Ops
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
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OC Article
The AI Skill Companies Are Missing Is One Operations Managers Already Have
88% of organisations use AI. Only 21% have redesigned any workflow around it. McKinsey data shows that gap is an operations skill — here is what to do with it.
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Supply Chain
USPS network revamp challenges on-time delivery from rural areas
An initiative to reduce trips to and from post offices far from major processing facilities has disproportionately impacted rural customers, per an agency watchdog report.
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AI & Ops Roles
Businesses sidestep AI governance policies as concerns mount
Senior AI leaders say frameworks have not been updated to accommodate the technology's specific risks, according to an EY report.
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AI & Ops Roles
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows
Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
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AI & Ops Roles
Humanoids ‘deviating’ attention from core manufacturing issues: Schneider
Andre Marino, senior vice president of industrial automation at Schneider Electric, spoke with Manufacturing Dive about the future of the industry and the shift to a...
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OC Article
AI Agents in Operations: A Practical Field Guide
What AI agents actually are, where they fit in operations work by function, and what to learn now — a practical guide without the hype
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IT Ops
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
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AI & Ops Roles
NIST awards over $30M to 12 Manufacturing Extension Partnership sites
The money will back MEP centers in 11 states and Puerto Rico to assist small- and medium-sized businesses with adopting advanced technologies such as AI, automation and robotics.
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IT Ops
Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century
Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51
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AI & Ops Roles
Munchkin taps 20-year industry veteran as first chief supply chain officer
Former Thrasio and Walmart executive Kunal Thakkar joined the baby product maker last month to lead global operations and sourcing, among other functions.
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AI & Ops Roles
Macy’s rolls out AI inventory replenishment tool
The forecasting capability is moving from pilot to broader implementation as the retailer targets improved in-stock levels and operational efficiencies.
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Manufacturing
Coca-Cola to spend $10B on US manufacturing by 2030
The soda giant and its bottlers are planning to expand production and distribution in part of its largest market.
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AI & Ops Roles
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
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AI & Ops Roles
Good Culture names COO to scale supply chain
Kirk Jensen will focus on strengthening supply chain and manufacturing operations at Good Culture to improve availability and speed to shelf for retail partners, CEO Jesse Merrill...
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