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Operational excellence Influencers

20 B2B creators, with their ideas, best work and partnership options.

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Zack Greenfield

23.7K followers

Zack Greenfield advises middle-market companies on putting AI to work, with a focus on fitting tools and training to real workflows and helping organizations move from pilots to wider adoption.

Artificial IntelligenceAI adoption and change managementOperational excellence

Phil Atkinson

11.5K followers

Phil Atkinson works with businesses to improve operational processes, especially the gaps between existing systems where spreadsheets, paper and manual tasks have become difficult to manage. At Targeted Agency, Phil builds small web applications to address those gaps, while recognizing that sometimes a better spreadsheet or a process change is the right solution.

Digital transformationOperational excellenceManufacturing

Dan Caulfield

11.2K followers

Dan Caulfield is the CEO of Smokejumper AI, where Caulfield helps defense manufacturers plan and apply AI to operational problems such as quality handoffs, production visibility, and supply chains.

Artificial IntelligenceSupply ChainAI adoption and change management

Jennifer White

8.8K followers

Jennifer White works with manufacturing, supply chain, and business operations teams on transformation execution, software implementations, and operational improvement through The MJW Group.

LeadershipSupply ChainOperational excellence

Devin Bhushan

5.5K followers

Devin Bhushan builds AI tools at Squint for factory operations, including agents that study manufacturing work and help teams improve processes.

Artificial IntelligenceOperational excellenceContinuous improvement

Ana Luiza Paes Araújo das Neves writes about supply chain work, with a focus on procurement, supplier quality, inventory accuracy and warehouse management. Araújo das Neves's posts connect day-to-day process decisions—such as qualifying suppliers or investigating stock discrepancies—to operational reliability, cost and working capital.

Supply ChainOperational excellenceProcurement

Gabriel Ortiz Alizieri writes about logistics and operations, including ground freight networks, distribution facilities, workplace safety, and post-acquisition integration. The posts describe work with Maersk Ground Freight and Columbia Sportswear operations.

Supply ChainOperational excellence

Eric Ciampoli

3.1K followers

Eric Ciampoli shares practical guidance on manufacturing operations, including process improvement, ERP alignment, automation, and keeping plant documentation useful and current. The posts also describe ECIC Industrial Consultants’ work helping manufacturers improve operations.

Operational excellenceIndustrial automationContinuous improvement

Craig Cooper

2.6K followers

Craig Cooper writes about Lean and Six Sigma, operational improvement, and the governance needed to make digital and AI transformations work. The posts focus on practical questions such as who owns decisions, whether data can be trusted, and how organizations can tell if a transformation is delivering results.

Artificial IntelligenceSupply ChainAI governance

Andrew Stickland

2.6K followers

Andrew Stickland advises growing businesses on improving operations, customer success and repeat business. Stickland's work includes fractional executive support and business mentoring.

Customer SuccessCustomer retentionOperational excellence

Jay Byam

1.7K followers

Jay Byam shares practical perspectives on manufacturing operations, with a focus on improving OEE and downtime data so teams can identify problems and make better-informed improvement decisions.

Operational excellenceContinuous improvementLean manufacturing

Kevin Jordan

1.6K followers

Kevin Jordan works with UK manufacturers on management systems, including ISO standards, and on making those systems support reliable processes and business performance. Jordan’s posts describe nearly 30 years of experience in complex manufacturing environments and work through Keystone Management Systems.

RecruitingOperational excellence

Randal Pike

1.5K followers

Randal Pike is a manufacturing and operations leader focused on scaling complex hardware production, building reliable operations, and helping teams make decisions closer to the work.

LeadershipSupply ChainOperational excellence

Peter Rodenhauser

1.4K followers

Peter Rodenhauser writes about cybersecurity and technology strategy for business leaders, including how to prioritize AI investment and prepare organizations for cyber incidents.

Artificial IntelligenceLeadershipCybersecurity

Nicholas Parton

464 followers

Nicholas Parton works on program execution and digital transformation in aerospace manufacturing, with a focus on connecting teams and improving how production work flows.

Artificial IntelligenceLeadershipDigital transformation

Rizwan Khan writes about applying AI and connected data to manufacturing and supply-chain problems. Their focus is turning shop-floor information into practical business decisions, such as reducing downtime, improving inventory visibility, and understanding job costs.

Artificial IntelligenceSupply ChainAI adoption and change management

Natalia Dubnyak writes about leadership in manufacturing, operations, and supply chain, including how teams can use AI in demand and supply planning.

Artificial IntelligenceLeadershipSupply Chain

Tim Stuart writes about improving manufacturing operations, including making improvement cases financially defensible, extending continuous improvement beyond production, and connecting plant-floor data to useful decisions.

Operational excellenceContinuous improvement

Daryl Holley writes about manufacturing leadership and lean operations, with a focus on how executive priorities, plant metrics, and listening to plant managers affect day-to-day performance.

LeadershipOperational excellenceContinuous improvement

Cindy Carter works with manufacturing and operational leaders on leadership development, team alignment, and operational improvement. The work draws on experience training teams at manufacturing sites and helping explore alternatives to factory closure.

LeadershipOperational excellenceManufacturing and industrial leaders

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