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<div>In recent years, we are observing turbulence across sectors of the economy, geography, technology or business. This turbulence manifests itself in multiple forms like megatrends, natural disasters and pandemics. The lifetimes of organizations reduced to twenty four years by 2016 and expected to be twelve years by 2027. We can see these changes across three dimensions of change as trend storms, rate of change and disruption. By identifying best practices across successful organizations we propose a three-dimensional canvas and approach of applying agility and leadership to deal with rate of change, trend analysis to take advantage of them and identifying and nurturing change-makers in the organization. Agility and the winning characteristics of inspirational leadership and operating like a network plays a pivotal role. Dissecting the maker revolution we set the stage for identifying and nurturing makers internally within the organization. We knit these elements together in the organizational fabric by using customer journey maps, data, and road-mapping. Integrating these, we propose a canvas and approach enabling one step towards continuous innovation. These tools will enable leaders and organizations to better integrating emerging technologies, trends and innovation into their execution strategies.</div>

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Power System Automation which includes automation of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity are undergoing evolution or modernization. Electric Utilities have a long tradition of owning and controlling the communication networks for mission critical applications because of the concerns about reliability, safety, security and cost. The convergence of these communication networks with the internet and open communication standards leads to new challenges like the finding of faults in these systems requires new skills and capabilities. This evolution necessitates system/tools for early diagnostics and analysis of communication subsystem. The paper discusses the automation system perspectives of Quality of Control (QoC) and Loss of Visibility to arrive at a relationship between scenarios and communication traffic flows. This relationship serves as the basis of building a device which has Industrial Automation Scenarios inbuilt, termed -Industrial Automation System on Device (IndASoD). The architecture of the device includes combining innovative models and simulators in mainstream communication research and leveraging emerging technology platforms like Software Defined Networks (SDN). The paper also discusses the feasibility of such a device in the context of modernization scenarios like upgrade and technology evaluations.

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