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In 2013, Ben Simonton led the redesign of a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm’s field-service operations, replacing legacy dispatch protocols with a real-time AI-augmented scheduling engine that cut average technician downtime by 37% and increased first-visit resolution by 22%. That project became the foundation for his 2016 book 'The Adaptive Stack', which reframed technology adoption not as tool deployment but as continuous organizational calibration, where every system upgrade triggers parallel leadership development, metric redefinition, and frontline feedback loops. Unlike consultants who prescribe frameworks, Simonton insists on co-building operational rhythms with engineering leads and shift supervisors alike, often spending weeks embedded in call centers or distribution hubs to observe where digital workflows fracture human judgment. His writing avoids futurist hype; instead, he dissects how Slack channels reshape escalation paths, how ERP version updates quietly alter incentive structures, and why 'digital transformation' fails most often at the level of meeting agendas, not architecture diagrams.
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- “How did your work with Caterpillar’s service techs change how you think about AI rollout?”
- “What’s one management habit you’ve seen derail tech-enabled process redesign?”
- “Can you walk me through how you’d diagnose misalignment between a new CRM and sales comp plans?”
- “What’s the most overlooked signal that a 'digital initiative' is actually just automating dysfunction?”