Maybe control version? From software to a lot of other information industries.

Also, not an industry, but I think that some mathematicians use category theory to translate insights from one domain to other.

(Trying the recipe itself here to find a meta-recipe) I think an insight itself from category theory to a more general recipe could be: don't try to move "laterally" to other industry, but go first "up" from a specific solution to a more general interpretation, and see what more you can solve "down" from there.