The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Change Management
The structured approach to helping people and teams adopt new processes, systems, and ways of working. It focuses on communication, training, and sustained adoption.
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Digital Transformation: The Human System Behind the Technology
Read more: Digital Transformation: The Human System Behind the TechnologyI have spent most of my career around what people usually call the “hard” side of manufacturing technology. Machines. Networks. Data pipelines. MES screens. OPC UA tags. MQTT topics. Historians. Systems that can be diagrammed, measured, and optimized. Yet the…
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Stakeholder Alignment for IIoT: IT, OT, and Quality on the Same Page
Read more: Stakeholder Alignment for IIoT: IT, OT, and Quality on the Same PageGetting IT, OT, and Quality to work together sounds like a reasonable goal. In practice, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve dealt with in more than 20 years in digital manufacturing. Every site, every program, every rollout. The same…
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Managing Up, Down, and Sideways: The Hidden Skill of IIoT Architects
Read more: Managing Up, Down, and Sideways: The Hidden Skill of IIoT ArchitectsIf there’s one thing I wish more people understood about IIoT architecture, it’s this: the tech is hard, yes — but managing people up, down, and sideways is the real superpower. You can have the cleanest architecture, the best platform,…
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Why Your OT Team Hates Your IT Architecture (And How to Fix It)
Read more: Why Your OT Team Hates Your IT Architecture (And How to Fix It)If you work in manufacturing, you’ve probably felt the tension between IT and OT (Operational Technology) teams. I’ve seen it at every level—from shop floor engineers rolling their eyes during architecture reviews, to IT folks wondering why “those OT guys”…
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What to Keep in Mind When Designing a New IIoT Strategy
Read more: What to Keep in Mind When Designing a New IIoT StrategyIf there’s one thing I’ve learned from two decades in the trenches of manufacturing IT and IIoT, it’s that a good strategy isn’t about chasing the latest technology or ticking off a checklist. It’s about making real improvements—connecting machines, data,…
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My Experience with Oil & Gas SAP MII Implementations
Read more: My Experience with Oil & Gas SAP MII ImplementationsIf you’ve worked in Oil & Gas for a while, you know it’s a world apart — process industry, strict safety rules, and a patchwork of legacy systems that don’t like to talk to each other. Over the last two…