By Augustine Tibazarwa
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This is a guide for executives, innovators, and consulting professionals at the forefront of industrial innovation to unlock business value for their companies and clients, and to create technology-based platforms for growth across the manufacturing sector. It also provides direction for automation innovators looking to improve the performance of their innovation operations and for manufacturers looking to drive greater economic value by incorporating automation.
Agility is critical for sustaining responsiveness to highly cyclical business demand and unrelentingly disruptive technology supply. The prescriptive guidance for incumbents provided herein is for opportunistic risk-based adoption of disciplined agility by incorporating eight enabling practices:
- Transitioning to Agile
- Investing in Agile capability
- Managing critical system parameters
- Engineering system-robustness
- Balancing project risk
- Conducting continuous system validation
- Assuring domain expertise
- Clarifying the ecosystem role
A Q&A with the Authors

Augustine Tibazarwa
ISA recently published the third edition of Driving Business Value in Industrial Innovation: Disciplined Agility for Manufacturing Automation by Augustine Tibazarwa. In this Q&A feature, Tibazarwa highlights the focus, importance, and differentiating qualities of the book. Read the full article.
ISA Press Release
International Society of Automation (ISA) announces it has published a new book that encourages both manufacturers and automation suppliers to better capitalize on fast-emerging innovations in industrial technology. Read the full article.