The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Leadership
The ability to guide people and teams toward shared goals. It involves direction, trust, decision-making, and accountability in complex environments.
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Five Conversations That Changed How I Approach IIoT Projects
Read more: Five Conversations That Changed How I Approach IIoT ProjectsSome of the biggest changes in how I work didn’t come from reading a whitepaper or going to a conference. They came from conversations. Quick ones, sometimes. A comment over coffee, a pushback during a design review, a frustrated operator…
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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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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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Building Your First IIoT Smart Manufacturing Practice: A Playbook from Zero to Scale
Read more: Building Your First IIoT Smart Manufacturing Practice: A Playbook from Zero to ScaleI built my first Smart Manufacturing practice in 2006. I had zero direct reports, no budget, and honestly, no real idea what I was doing. Twelve years later, that practice was generating millions in annual revenue across three continents. Then…