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Articles by Michael Simms
Why Most Enterprise AI Initiatives Still Fail to Scale
Why most enterprise AI initiatives still fail to scale, and what organizations need to turn AI investments into measurable business value. Let’s talk about the AI adoption paradox. Enterprise AI has officially crossed the threshold from emerging technology to mainstream business strategy. According to McKinsey’s State of AI report, 88% of organizations now use AI regularly in at least one business function.
How data, governance and organizational change define AI success
Manufacturers and other companies are pouring record investments into new AI technology, but factors such as poor governance and fragmented data remain significant stumbles. What you’ll learn: Only 7% of the workforce can effectively leverage AI, while the other 93% are just experimenting with or not using AI at all. AI’s effectiveness is only as good as the data feeding it, and poor data quality remains a major obstacle.
Manufacturing’s AI moment: Why readiness matters more than technology
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept for manufacturers. It is already reshaping how factories operate, how supply chains respond and how leaders make decisions. Predictive maintenance reduces unplanned downtime. Intelligent planning systems balance inventory and demand. Computer vision improves quality inspection at scale.
A limpet's eye view of post‐glacial isostasy: fixed biological indicators provide new sea‐level index points for the Mid‐Holocene relative highstand in eastern Northern Ireland
Post-glacial isostatic uplift has played a significant role in the development of coastal landscapes in formerly glaciated regions of the northern hemisphere. Raised shorelines with eroded platforms, cliffs and sea stacks are conspicuous around the coasts of Northern Ireland and Scotland and first noted in Ireland almost two centuries ago (Hull 1832).
Why Perfect Practice Will Shape the Winners of 2026
To win with AI in 2026, companies must master the fundamentals. Strong data, clear governance and solid change management drive results. By Michael Simms If you’ve ever been a competitive athlete at any level, you’ve probably heard that “practice makes perfect,” but that isn’t exactly true. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you’re practicing to improve without first refining your basic skills, you’ll be building on a wobbly foundation.
AI Is Here, but Are You Actually Ready for It?
Artificial intelligence may be the poster child for innovation, but this year, 42% of businesses scrapped their AI projects. That’s a nearly 150% increase from 2024, when just 17% reported abandoning their AI initiatives. The reality? Most companies don’t fail because the tech isn’t ready. They fail because their businesses aren’t ready. Lacking the infrastructure, cultural alignment, and data foundations to support real AI execution is a fast track to failure.
Manufacturers struggle with outdated systems and short staff, but external IT can break through
What you’ll learn: The gap between manufacturing goals and the capacity to achieve them is only getting wider. Boards want fast progress on AI. Customers expect shorter lead times and perfect quality. Regulators demand tougher standards for security and compliance. Manufacturers in 2025 are under mounting pressure. Digital systems run nearly every part of the business, from ERP and production scheduling to quality control and customer orders.
What Manufacturers Should Ask Before Implementing AI
Manufacturers are no longer questioning if they should implement artificial intelligence (AI), but how. AI creates more efficiency for teams. By Michael Simms Manufacturers are no longer questioning if they should implement artificial intelligence (AI), but how. It’s no wonder — the returns on AI investments can be immense, with 70% of manufacturers reporting “strong ROI” already. Digital transformation projects, in particular, are seeing impressive boosts from AI.
A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool
I used to love words, but not looking them up. Now I love both, the knowing, and the looking up, the absurdity of discovering that "boreal" has been meaning "northern" all this time or that "estrus" is a much better word for the times when I would most likely have said, "in heat." When I was translating, the dictionary was my enemy, the repository of knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining. The foreign word for "inflatable" simply would not stay in my head,
Poem: ‘Chrysalis’
Poem: ‘Chrysalis’ Science in meter and verse Edited by Dava Sobel We think of metamorphoses as glorious and beautiful, a quiescent chrysalis emerging as a yellow butterfly slowly unfolding her On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.
Spider-Boy's First Solo Series for Marvel Comics Arrives in November
Spider-Boy, aka Bailey Briggs, will soon headline his very own solo ongoing series starting this November! After debuting in Spider-Man #7, Spider-Boy, also known as Bailey Briggs, will be arriving on the scene in his own solo series this upcoming November. Marvel.com announced the arrival of the newest addition to the pantheon of arachnid-powered heroes this coming November 2023.
Wheeling Through the Apocalypse
Wheeling Through the Apocalypse: Review of Bicycles of the Gods: A Divine Comedy by Michael Simms by Angele Ellis “I woke one morning with an image of two boys riding their bicycles up a hill that looks down on a large city,” Michael Simms says of his debut novel in an interview with Deborah Kalb. “One boy, Xavi, dismounts and strikes a match, but the other boy, Jesse, stops him from setting fire to the dry brush.
Review: When boys are gods, they can be hell on wheels
"The world needs to be destroyed again. These humans are ruining everything,” is not something the average 12-year-old boy is apt to say. However, Xavi is not your everyday tween. He is, in fact, the Hindu god Shiva aka The Destroyer of Worlds, returned to earth on an apocalyptic mission. His partner on this job, another young boy who goes by the name Jesse, is Jesus Christ.
Current Australian Doctor Speaks Against Mandates
Current Australian Doctor Speaks Against Mandates By Michael Simms “It violates every person’s right to choose. It violates the statement in the Australian Immunization Handbook produced by The Department of Health and Aging about consent “It must be given voluntarily in the abscence of undue pressure, coercion or manipulation” as well as the Nuremburg accord which states the same principle. The statement about a Safe and effective immunization is untrue.
The World of Quality Control Has Changed for Medical Device Manufacturers
Image by Coloures-Pic/Adobe Stock Artificial intelligence enables medical device manufacturers to predict quality issues before they happen. Can AI help you improve your operations? Michael Simms, Stefan Siwiecki | Oct 27, 2021 Given persistent supply-chain challenges, medical device manufacturers should use every advantage they can get to edge out the competition. The last thing they need is to get in their own way, weighed down by issues that slow or even stop production.
Before Jumping to Machine Learning, You Need a Solid Analytics Foundation > TheCustomer
Here are the four elements of an effective data journey. Determine Your Roadmap As with any trip, your data journey requires a roadmap to get you from where you are to where you want to go. Before you can get to your destination, the first step is to assess where you are. Most organizations begin with a focus on operational reports and dashboards, which can help you glean business insights from what happened, including how many products were sold, how often and where.
Who Will Tell Them?
It turns out you can kill the earth, Crack it open like an egg. It turns out you can murder the sea, Poison your own children Without even thinking about it. Goodbye passenger pigeon, once So numerous men threw nets over trees And fed you to pigs. Goodbye Cuckoo bird who lays eggs In the nests of strangers. Goodbye elephant bird Who frightened Sinbad. Goodbye wigeon, Curlew, lapwing, crake. Goodbye Mascarene coot. Sorry we never had a chance to meet. Who knew you could wipe out Everything?
TRUE HUMAN DOGON
By AK Toney on January 8, 2020 in Music, Poetry TRUE HUMAN DOGON (for Ras G.) Same colors different skin Heart pumps humans in Same colors different skin Heart pumps humans end Mother Ocean flow us our destination Father Stars guide us beyond Warriors lead to the fertility of purity She is itutu as he is high in glow Come from the ether Call us to Celestial The body is a point of light And we float as liquid carries The tribes of our Ancestors “The Nummo divided his body among people to feed...
Abbas Rabi'u Adamu
Nigerian Voices Today By Abbas Rabi'u Adamu on February 3, 2021 in Focus, Poetry My Aurora Per se, I remain silent to the plain trunk of Ginkgo with etched bark of sere serenity. I uttered— “Oh my Gosh! my feet never feel a tavern Though my lips to feel liquor I’m drunk after glaring an Annabel Lee. ……..Then I muttered— She must be a Persian tapestry of glitz and past pure pearls.
A Review of American Ash by Michael Simms
Poetry Review By Alexandra Umlas on February 3, 2021 in Poetry, Spotlight The final poem of Michael Simms’s recent book of poetry, American Ash, ends with the lines “… and everything is / Beautiful as you feel yourself / Floating over the city and you wish / The story didn’t have to end” (79). Simms is talking about getting old, but this was also exactly my sentiment as I finished reading— I wanted the book to go on and on.
Michael Simms: Two Poems
Selected by Alexis Rhone Fancher, Poetry Editor By Michael Simms on February 3, 2021 in Main Posts, Poetry Tree of Life When the young man wearing a yarmulke Asks Excuse me sir are you Jewish? I want to say Yes I’ve studied history and know Something about suffering But that’s not what he means. He’s trying to find ten men For a minyan At Rodef Shalom down the street And when the young man carrying a bible Asks Have you heard the Good News?
Poets on Craft: Nahshon Cook and Joseph Ross
By Bunkong Tuon on February 3, 2021 in Conversations, Main Posts, Poetry Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, love and rejuvenation. It is thus a celebration of the beautiful and eclectic minds of contemporary poets.
Malakhi Simmons: Excerpts from BLK Haikus
By Malakhi Simmons on December 9, 2020 in Poetry About BLK Haiku: A few years ago, a friend of mine challenged me to write a Haiku a day, for 30 days. I had always loved the Zen qualities of Haikus, and excepted the challenge. Over the years, when I felt creatively stuck or had something on my mind, Haikus became a form of meditation and a mental puzzle of finding the right words to express my thoughts.
Larimer Field - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Before every game, before they hit us infield, the coaches yelled, “Line up,” and both teams, twenty-eight Little Leaguers, formed a skirmish, from the plate, down the left field line until it ended at the cyclone fence on Lenora Street where the old Abruzzese who didn’t speak English, and didn’t know baseball, except DiMaggio, sat on their porches and watched us play.
Tom Quirk - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Photo via rawpixel May 4, 2020 White beard and shaved head, A Merton-monkish master Whose watercolor class put me Through the wringer with its Twenty-painting requirement For my slow painstaking work. Impossible, and not just at first, But he kept me at it, down- Playing my complaints, offering Maddening encouragements.
Three Pittsburgh Poets, Three Distinct Voices
Poetry can mean different things to different people. For some, it’s celebrating the glorious music found in the end-rhymes of Robert Frost. For others, it’s a love of language poetry or blunt confessionalism. For Pittsburgh’s Sam Hazo, former Poet Laureate of Pennsylvania, it’s the “visionary” poetry of T.S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney.
Fence - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Photo by Brett Sayles, Pexels February 21, 2020 All morning through my window I watch a man building a fence In my neighbor’s yard. He’s old, Almost as old as I am, too old For this kind of work. It’s spring— The first blossoms of the apple tree Spread their light above him. He lifts and drops The post-hole digger all morning. At noon he takes a break. Sitting on the pile of lumber In the back of his truck, he eats A sandwich.
Tough Guys | Chapter and Verse | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper
When I was a boy needing an example Of the kind of man I wanted to be, I turned away from the men I knew Who seemed deeply and impossibly flawed And went to the movies. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Bogart, Cagney, and Connery Each taught me with their magnificent shining Presences on the screen. These male icons Showed me how to slug it out, take it on the chin, And most of all, not to take any shit. But the cinematic mentor I finally settled on Was Lee Marvin.
Sheryl St. Germain: Essay in Search of a Poem
You’ve been trying to finish a poem for what seems like a long time. It’s a poem that has to do with the death of your son. At first you can only manage fragments: images, lists, incomplete sentences. They are all good, strong words and phrases, stalwart witnesses to a struggling, fractured life, but they don’t want to cohere into a poem. You have the bricks but not the mortar, the testimony but not the conviction..
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