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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AI & Ops Roles
The next AI race is about execution, not access
The next AI advantage will belong to companies that can operationalize AI.
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IT Ops
Most IT tickets don’t need a human. Here’s how to resolve them without one.
Your IT team is too expensive to spend the day on password resets.
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AI & Ops Roles
4 questions CFOs should be asking about agentic AI initiatives
Is your AI infrastructure cost-effective? Key questions for financial planning.
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Finance Ops
Why deal readiness is a competitive advantage
Why operational readiness is becoming a critical indicator of IPO and major deal success.
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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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Supply Chain
Your packaging inventory forecasts are already out of date
What high-volume shippers and brands know about on-demand packaging that you need to know too.
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AI & Ops Roles
Your supply chain has a visibility problem. Your executives have a decision problem.
Supply chain leaders have more data than ever and less clarity. The gap is costing them.
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AI & Ops Roles
Monitor, recommend, execute: How AI creates a more responsive supply chain
AI purpose-built for transportation understands the industry’s unique network, systems and constraints.
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Manufacturing
The case for going beyond backup power
More manufacturers are looking at microgrids instead of diesel generators. Here’s why.
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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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AI & Ops Roles
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten
Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project
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AI & Ops Roles
Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
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AI & Ops Roles
AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner
Model-makers move too fast and don’t care when they break things
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AI & Ops Roles
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’
Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created
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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
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
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AI & Ops Roles
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
RIP, you won't be mourned
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IT Ops
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want
Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects
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IT Ops
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
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Supply Chain
CBP: Shippers could lose import privileges if customs info is wrong
The agency will void the right to bring merchandise into the U.S for shippers with inaccurate information on file, starting Sept. 18.
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AI & Ops Roles
Core CPI exceeds forecasts, increasing odds of higher borrowing costs
A mix of economic data and federal policy decisions has strengthened the argument among Federal Reserve officials who favor raising the main interest rate.
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AI & Ops Roles
Adobe leans into freemium AI strategy
The company is using free offerings to expand its user base, with the goal of converting those users into paid customers.
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AI & Ops Roles
ADM’s ex-CFO gets SEC to produce over 307,000 documents in fraud case
The federal accounting fraud suit against the grain giant’s former CFO Vikram Luthar is inching along toward a March deadline for the discovery phase.
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