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CanMUG 2026 · Toronto · Keynote

The Four Disciplines
of Intelligent Change

The keynote from CanMUG Toronto — a practical model for how AI and automation are reshaping the way Maximo teams deliver change, across assessment, testing, training, and compliance.

  • The four pillars every Maximo change rests on — and the traceability that connects them
  • What shifts when automation moves experts from manual execution to judgment and oversight
  • A pillar-by-pillar look at today's methods versus where the work is heading
  • Where to start — preparing your team without transforming everything at once
8 slidesPDF~5 minute readPresented by Pranjal Dutta
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The constant

What does every Maximo change rest on?

However a new requirement, upgrade, or fix arrives, it always lands on the same four pillars. The pillars don't change — how we deliver them is what's being transformed.

Pillar 01

Assess & Build

Readiness

Identify what's changing, assess the impact, then configure and implement.

Pillar 02

Testing & Validation

Integrity

End-to-end, regression, and integration testing to prove nothing broke.

Pillar 03

User Training

Capability

Ready people to do the job the new way — methods, materials, delivery.

Pillar 04

Compliance

Evidence

Collect the proof tied to change, testing, and training — and demonstrate it's done.

Connected by traceability — every change flows through all four.
The transformation

What changes when the work gets intelligent?

AI and automation don't replace the Maximo team. They move experts away from manual execution and toward the judgment, oversight, and decisions only people can make.

Not replacement · Augmentation
Pillar
Today
With AI & automation
Assess & Build
Manual change-impact analysis across spreadsheets
AI-predicted impact and automated change signals
Testing & Validation
Hand-built scripts, rebuilt each release
Autonomous, continuous, self-maintaining tests
User Training
Static content, outdated the moment a process changes
AI-generated, role-aware, in-context learning
Compliance
Evidence gathered reactively before an audit
Continuous, automated evidence and traceability
Who it's for

Is this written for your team?

For Maximo & MAS teams of all sizes - small, medium or large - regulated or non-regulated Enterprises

If your organization uses IBM Maximo or Maximo Application Suite as an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution and treats change, quality, and audit-readiness as serious work, this model is built for you

Most useful if you're…

  • A VP or Director of Operations or Maintenance accountable for change outcomes
  • A Maximo / MAS lead or administrator planning upgrades and releases
  • An SME, analyst, or QA lead who delivers testing, training, and evidence
  • A partner or SI advising enterprise EAM programs

Connected change
is intelligent change.

The four pillars aren't going away. The teams that master them with AI and automation will define the next decade of EAM.

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