Are you overwhelmed yet?… Artificial Intelligence. Inventory Master Data “gatekeepers.” Mobile applications. Segregation of duties. Request(s) for Quotation. Users begging for Best-of-Breed software (Maximo, Citiworks, Prometheus, etc.) Business Intelligence… [Insert your technology or cost-control strategy of the day here] Best-in-Class production operations don’t ignore strategic improvements in technology, business processes, or data models, but they do evaluate these improvements in the context of a corporate-culture of asset reliability and a shared responsibility for production uptime. In this EAM Spotlight we will explore strategies to manage costs and increase production that challenge some thinking errors that there are “quick fixes” to complex business dynamics.