Perspectives from
practitioners, not theorists.

What we're thinking about, building toward, and learning along the way.

February 12, 2026

Dave Davis

Why Most Leadership Programs Fail at Scale

I ran a program once — facilitators were outstanding, evaluations came back 4.8 out of 5. Three months later nothing had changed. That one stung because I'd built the thing.

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January 28, 2026

Hillary Davis

The Hidden Cost of Bad Demand Planning

I sat in an IBP review once where the sales forecast, the operations plan, and the finance target were off by 22% from each other. Everyone in the room knew it. Nobody said it out loud.

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January 14, 2026

Dave & Hillary Davis

AI in Operations: What Actually Works (And What's Just Noise)

We've been building AI into actual workflows for the past year. Not proofs of concept. Not demos for leadership. And here's the thing nobody at the conferences is saying: most of the value had nothing to do with the AI.

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October 15, 2025

Hillary Davis

Change Management Is Not a Communications Plan

I have a theory that you can predict whether a transformation will succeed by looking at where "change management" shows up in the project plan. If it's a single line item around week three, it's going to stall.

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August 19, 2025

Dave Davis

The LXP Promise vs. The LXP Reality

I've deployed these platforms at enterprise scale. I've been the person standing in front of a VP six months after launch trying to explain why the adoption numbers aren't where the vendor demo said they'd be. So I have feelings about this.

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May 6, 2025

Dave & Hillary Davis

Why We Started Leland Blues Digital

We're married. We should probably get that out of the way first. Yes, we work together. No, it's not weird. Or maybe it is and we've just been doing it long enough that we can't tell anymore.

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March 10, 2025

Hillary Davis

Supply Chain Resilience Starts with People, Not Software

Every time something goes wrong — a port backs up, a supplier goes dark, tariffs shift overnight — the first call is always the same: "We need better visibility." Then someone buys a platform. Then someone builds a dashboard. Then the next disruption hits and nobody trusts it anyway.

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