Issue #006Oct 28, 2026 · 11 min read
Not All Decisions Are Created Equal
Why enterprises need to rethink how they decide, when they commit, and how they turn choices into business value.
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Blueprints for the Modern Industrial Enterprise.
Exploring enterprise blueprints and product lifecycle management strategies for manufacturing businesses of the future.
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Issue #005Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Beyond Intelligence: Why Orchestration Matters in the Age of AI
AI creates capabilities. Orchestration turns those capabilities into business outcomes. Why the next frontier of enterprise AI is coordination, not intelligence, and why product context decides who wins.
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Strategy & management consulting for the industrial enterprise.
Erik Alabay has spent 20+ years working across product strategy, PLM, digital twins, and enterprise transformation — translating shop-floor complexity into operating blueprints leadership teams can actually execute against.
These essays are field notes: opinionated, diagrammatic, and grounded in the way modern industrial businesses are really being built today.
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