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The TENNXT Insights video series: engineering perspectives on operational visibility, automation and industrial performance. Watch here, without leaving the page.
Stop Automating Inefficiencies
Automating a badly designed process does not fix it. It runs the same mistake faster, with more money behind it, and it gets harder to change course once it is built. In this video, Joshua Otomo challenges the reflex to reach for automation before the underlying process is understood, and explains why the sequence matters: observe, understand, redesign, and only then automate.
Key takeaways
- Automation amplifies a bad process. It does not repair one.
- A faster version of a broken process is still broken, and now it is harder to see.
- The right order is: understand the operation first, then automate the constraint.
- Some inefficiencies are cheaper to remove in the process itself than to automate.
Related reading
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- Why Operational Visibility Must Come Before Automation10 min read
- The Operational Mistakes That Keep Complex Businesses Running Below Their Potential9 min read
- Why Enterprise Software Projects Fail Before Development Begins8 min read
Nigeria's Industrial Performance Problem Is Not Just About Growth
Nigeria's economy grew by 4.43 per cent in Q2 2026, but industrial growth fell to 3.96 per cent. In this video, Joshua Otomo unpacks what the Q2 2026 manufacturing numbers actually say, why headline growth masks operational gaps, and why the analysis of manufacturing performance should go beyond the cost debate to what can be measured and improved inside the plant itself.
Key takeaways
- The economy grew 4.43 per cent while industry grew only 3.96 per cent, down from 7.46 per cent a year earlier.
- Power was the weak spot: the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply segment contracted 10.63 per cent.
- The honest reading of Q2 is not decline. It is growth too slow to gain ground.
- Operational visibility is a management capability, and it is the layer that turns cost pressure into precise response.
Related reading
- Nigeria's Industrial Performance Problem Is Not Just About Growth11 min read
- Your Factory Doesn't Have a Production Problem. It Has a Visibility Problem.9 min read
- How to Detect Engineering Bottlenecks Before They Become Operational Problems9 min read
- The Difference Between Visibility, Control and Intelligence in Complex Operations8 min read
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