How Honeywell’s CEO plans to survive—and thrive—through pandemic

Honeywell is going digital.

As chairman and CEO, Darius Adamczyk is trying to remake the 134-year-old behemoth into a modern-day tech company. Having taken the torch in 2017 from Dave Cote—who whipped the underdog into shape over his 15-year tenure—Adamczyk is now doubling down on Honeywell’s future as a “software industrial” company. He seeks to prove Honeywell can compete on turf dominated by Google, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle.

But just as Honeywell, No. 92 on this year’s Fortune 500 list, was hitting its stride, calamity struck. A pandemic. Shutdowns. Oil and gas market mayhem. All of it comes as a