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XONITEK Chairman and Founder of the OpEx Society, Joseph Paris shares here his views on the relevance and importance of operational excellence as it relates to golf – as seen in the Spring 2016 edition of CLUBLINK Life.
Read the original article by Joseph Paris here: “Business Lessons Learned from Playing Golf“
Turns out, Europe’s failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs is growing ever more as an additional growth crisis to the already pressing general economic euro crisis. The Economist means that in a country with a culture that’s deeply inhospitable to entrepreneurs, wanting to grow a start-up into a behemoth is quite as counter-cultural as piercings and performance…
As a manufacturer, we want our defects rate to be as close as possible to the “Six Sigma level, 3.4 defects per million opportunities” (DPMO) on products we fabricate. A possibly overlooked key is how we manage our suppliers’ defects; what they do with the recovered contents off the parts we reject and return to…
Employers don’t hire people – or assign them a project or task – in the hopes they will fail. And employees don’t take on a job, project, or task in the hopes they will fail. On the contraire, the expectations all around are that the outcome will be successful. Certainly, sometimes the outcomes are not…
Are you a Program Manager or a Project Manager? Probably a little bit of both… Program sounds bigger, and people with more experience even call themselves Program Directors as a way of showing how many more years of practice they have in the field. But, what is the difference, and does it matter? Yes, it…
Are your operations achieving best-in-class operating performance? As corporate earnings continue to show good growth and the great recession falls further into the past, adverse results may be creeping into operating performance levels while businesses emphasize top line growth. Understanding what best in class performance is for today’s operations and how our improvement efforts affect…
In the face of looming deflation in the developed world, it seems that economic policies are diverging all the more. When the financial crisis broke in 2007-08, most banks eased monetary policy significantly, but the trend changed in late October when the Bank of Japan, for one, stepped up its bond-buying. According to the Economist, this…
