An Alternative Visual
This is my alternative visual narrative that explores how AI and specifically Agentic AI are fundamentally disrupting traditional manufacturing hierarchies. The video illustrates the "compression" (or collapsing) of the classic Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid, showing how AI now acts as an intelligent intermediary that instantly transforms unstructured "human language"—like deviation comments and work instructions—into actionable operational wisdom
Key themes include:
- Collapsing Complexity: Moving past the rigid, million-dollar data models of the 1990s to a system that understands context like a human.
- Knowledge Flow: Driving multi-site transformation through "Outbound" digital playbooks and "Inbound" frontline innovations.
- Augmented Lean: Democratizing expertise across the entire network so every site becomes both a consumer and a producer of wisdom.
I also talked about it in an interview for Tulip's "Human in the Loop" series.
Behind this is a body of work and a lot of written content that I will publish in the future. As I have written before I am experimenting with different formats to convey the message about composability.
Stay tuned more content will be coming out in the future!
