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Operational Readiness in 90-120 Days
Operational Readiness

Operational Readiness in 90-120 Days: How to Compress What the Industry Takes 24 Months

José Cortinat Mar 19, 2026
3 Levels of AI in Heavy Industry
Agentic Software

3 Levels of AI in Heavy Industry: Chatbots, Copilots, and Proactive Agents

José Cortinat Mar 19, 2026
We Eat Our Own Cooking
Thought Leadership

We Eat Our Own Cooking: Why We Use Internally What We Deploy

José Cortinat Mar 19, 2026
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Reactive Maintenance The Silent Tax
Asset Management

Reactive Maintenance: The Silent Tax the Industry Pays

More than 50% of maintenance in heavy industry is still reactive. This article puts numbers to that invisible cost.

Maintenance Strategy in 63 Hours
Asset Management

Maintenance Strategy in 63 Hours: From FMECA to SAP PM Without PDFs

An 87% reduction versus the traditional 500-hour method. Speed with verifiable quality.

The 13 Pillars of a Prepared Operation
Operational Readiness

The 13 Pillars of a Prepared Operation (And Why Most Only Cover 2)

Most consultancies focus on 2 or 3 functional areas. The problems appear in the other 10.

The Real Cost of a Failed Ramp-Up
Operational Readiness

The Real Cost of a Failed Ramp-Up: $50M-$100M Nobody Budgets

There's a line item that doesn't appear in any megaproject budget. But it gets paid anyway.

ISO 55000 Why Certification Isn't Enough
Asset Management

ISO 55000 in Practice: Why Certification Isn't Enough

The plaque on the wall says certified. The assets keep failing without warning. The problem is what comes after.

From Eternal Consultants to Installed Capacity
Operational Readiness

From Eternal Consultants to Installed Capacity

When the consultants leave, what remains? The model the industry needs is the result AND the tool.

AI Won't Fix Your Operation Without Your People
Agentic Software

AI Won't Fix Your Operation (If You Don't Prepare Your People)

48% of digital initiatives fail. 60-70% of mining transformation projects don't scale beyond the pilot.

Agentic Software vs Dashboards
Agentic Software

Agentic Software vs Dashboards: Why Having Data Isn't Having Solutions

Less than 5% of mining equipment data is analyzed. The problem isn't data — it's software that doesn't execute.

Shadow AI 75% of Your Team Already Uses AI
Agentic Software

Shadow AI in Industry: 75% of Your Team Already Uses AI Without You Knowing

78% adopt BYOAI practices. In heavy industry, shadow AI isn't an IT problem — it's an operational safety problem.

AI Won't Be Your Competitive Advantage
Agentic Software

AI Won't Be Your Competitive Advantage (Your People Will)

"AI will be a source of homogenization, not differentiation." — MIT Sloan. The real advantage is operational experience.

Corporate Institutional Amnesia
Industry

Corporate Institutional Amnesia: The Silent Crisis of Heavy Industry

50% of mining talent eligible for retirement within 10 years. When they leave, 20 years of undocumented knowledge leave with them.

Geopolitical Risk and Supply Chain in LATAM Mining
Industry

Geopolitical Risk and Supply Chain in LATAM Mining: What Boards Aren't Measuring

Peru: 200+ active social conflicts. Chile: C1 costs up 30%. Argentina: currency volatility. The operational indicators that matter.

Energy Transition Operate Better First
Industry

Energy Transition and Mining: It's Not Just Building — It's Operating Better

Chile's copper output stagnant for a decade while the world needs more. The answer: maximize existing assets.

The Digital Gap in Mining
Industry

The Digital Gap in Mining: Why 60% of Transformation Projects Don't Scale

Billions spent on digital transformation. The pilot graveyard keeps growing. The problem isn't technology.

The Bridge Between McKinsey and Worley
Thought Leadership

The Bridge Between McKinsey and Worley: Why the Industry Needs a New Kind of Consultancy

Strategy without execution is documentation. Execution without strategy is rework. The gap in the center costs billions.

Operators Who Build Tools vs PowerPoint Consultants
Operational Readiness

Operators Who Build Tools vs Consultants Who Sell PowerPoints

15 years in the field. Not in a conference room. The distance between reading data and having lived it.

The Digital Oil is Contaminated
Agentic Software

The Digital Oil is Contaminated: Understanding Why Your Data Strategy Fails

Only 5% of industrial professionals feel their data enables fast decisions. The "digital oil" is contaminated by manual entry and siloed AI.

Profitable Resilience
Industry

Profitable Resilience: Stop Protecting Your Supply Chain and Start Turning It Into a Competitive Weapon

Resilience is not an insurance cost. Strategically designed, it is a latent source of competitive advantage — ready to activate when competitors are paralyzed.

Beyond the Launch: Operational Readiness
Operational Readiness

Beyond the Launch: Operational Readiness as a Driver of Strategic Value

Deloitte: ~30% of a project's value is lost during startup and commissioning. The real battleground for ROI is not the construction site — it's the ramp-up.

The Cost of Inaction
Asset Management

The Cost of Inaction: Why Asset 'Management' Fails and Asset 'Strategy' Triumphs

Managing assets is not the same as having an asset strategy. The gap between the two is where value quietly leaks every quarter.

The Human Link
Thought Leadership

The Human Link: When Operational Culture Devours the Strategy for Excellence

"Feeling respected" is an almost 18x more powerful predictor of culture than any other factor. Excellence is built in the small daily behaviors of middle management.

The Tyranny of the Schedule
Thought Leadership

The Tyranny of the Schedule: How to Free the PMO to Deliver Value, Not Just Projects

Only 2.5% of organizations complete their projects meeting budget, scope, and expected benefits. The PMO must evolve from project police to value orchestrator.

The Leader's Productivity Paradox
Thought Leadership

The Leader's Productivity Paradox: Why 'Being Busy' is Your Greatest Strategic Risk

The addiction to busyness has become the biggest impediment to wise leadership. Decarbonization and digital transformation demand thinking time, not more meetings.

Seeing is Believing
Thought Leadership

Seeing is Believing: How to Accelerate Operational Transformation by Getting Leaders Out of the Boardroom

"Go, See, Together" — how Porsche's CEO took his team to Japan and sparked one of the most successful industrial turnarounds in history.

The Hidden Engine of Change
Thought Leadership

The Hidden Engine of Change: Empowering Middle Managers to Anchor Transformation

Protector or Captain? The two archetypes of middle management — and why the ones who develop talent outside their team are the real engine of transformation.

Beyond Tonnage
Industry

Beyond Tonnage: How to Articulate Value in the Era of Industrial Sustainability

Your customers no longer buy copper or steel — they buy low-carbon copper and green steel. Sustainability is now a quantifiable competitive weapon.

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