Oil may dominate the Iran conflict headlines, but the bigger risk for manufacturers sits well below the surface.
What is developing now is a broader industrial disruption across sulfur, petrochemicals, plastics, semiconductors, aluminum, and copper.
The real risk is not just the headline. It is the third and fourth order impact on supply, pricing, insurance, and continuity.
We put together a short video and action framework deck on what companies are doing now.
Happy to share what we are learning and seeing. Send me a direct message or comment with what you are seeing below, and I will send it over.
Lutnick told Davos globalization is dead.
Half the room pretended they didn't hear it.
Companies that internalize this now will be ahead of the curve. Those that continue to optimize for a world that no longer exists will find themselves reacting under pressure.
I’d love to hear from you:
- Where have you actually seen AI deliver value in your business?
- Which roles are creating that value?
- Where has AI spending been a money pit?
If you want to continue this conversation privately and speak candidly about what specifically is working, shoot me a message.
AI is not delivering the value it’s supposed to.
I’m talking to a lot of industry executives, and what I’m hearing matches what the data shows: massive AI investments are not translating into real business outcomes.
Executives are worried about missing out, and you probably are too. But the solution isn’t a massive, costly-AI program that promises to solve everything end-to-end. The answer is pragmatic implementation.