Smart Industry's annual State of Initiative Survey is open!

Your answers to the 20-question survey form the basis of our yearly report (out early next year) that offers answers on the latest opportunities and challenges of digital transformation and where DX trends are heading in 2027.
Sept. 23, 2026
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What you'll learn:

  • Please fill out the new 20-question State of Initiative Survey, tailored toward DX and leaning even more into AI.
  • We'll release the survey results early in 2027 in the form of an in-depth feature in this space, plus perhaps some bonus content, and what our readers say is the future of digital transformation.
  • Plus, $50 Amazon gift cards will go to four lucky respondents.  
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We're out a few weeks early this year with our annual State of Initiative Survey—and there's good reason why.

We want to give our audience a nice long time to ponder what has been an Earth-shaking year for digital transformation, especially with the surge of AI-assisted operations and the beginnings of the technology seriously penetrating the marketplace and reshaping the factory floor.

See also: State of Initiative 2025: Mixed signals on AI in investment plans, production systems

Also, digital transformation is common policy and practice now, with some surveys saying 90% of manufacturers have embarked on transformation journeys and now consider the process essential to their operations.

We'll be interested to see the results of our own survey, among our own readership, to determine whether DX has reached this level in 2027.

We'll release a comprehensive report on these results early in the new year in the form of a graphic-filled feature in this space. So, please be on the lookout! Plus, perhaps we'll have some added bonus content. Stay tuned!

See also: DX is diminished if your workforce isn’t upskilled

So, we invite you to take a few minutes and fill out this 20-question survey!

And, by the way, four survey respondents will each receive $50 Amazon gift cards.

The State of Initiative Survey

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Scott Achelpohl
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Scott Achelpohl

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I've come to Smart Industry after stints in business-to-business journalism covering U.S. trucking and transportation for FleetOwner, a sister website and magazine of SI’s at Endeavor Business Media, and branches of the U.S. military for Navy League of the United States. I'm a graduate of the University of Kansas and the William Allen White School of Journalism with many years of media experience inside and outside B2B journalism. I'm a wordsmith by nature, and I edit Smart Industry and report and write all kinds of news and interactive media on the digital transformation of manufacturing.

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