Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Pace of Digital Transformation: Strategy and Vision for Today's Pain Points

19 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter argues that traditional planning, strategy, and vision discussions—often delivered via lengthy PowerPoint decks— frustrate practitioners who need immediate solutions. He proposes a fast, pragmatic approach that matches the client’s own pace: if a client moves slowly, the process adapts; if they demand rapid results, the team delivers a well‑thought‑out answer for the current “now” column without a year‑long delay. The core message is to prioritize today’s pain points and provide actionable outcomes quickly, bypassing protracted planning cycles.

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One of the things we purposely tried to figure out how to do is when you talk about planning, strategy, and vision in whatever order you want to take those, normally if you're talking to a plant person, their eyes roll because this, this sounds like PowerPoints. It sounds like it's going to take forever and it's stopping me from doing my pain point today. And we've said, what if we could go through all that stuff and do the right stuff and stack that up? In a very fast manner. We can go at the pace of you. And if the pace of you is slow, that's fine. But if the pace of you is, I need this immediately, how can we get this done so that what's happening in the now column— what do I need to do now— is well thought out and doesn't take a year from now to get that answer?