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The founder of the OpEx Society, Joseph Paris, is an internationally renowned public speaker, and speaking is his Gemba, (a Japanese word that means “the real place”)… Keynote sessions that Joseph Paris include, and are not limited to; Lessons from Mt. Stupid Why do Lean / Continuous Improvement Programs fail to achieve their potential? What…
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The Economist reveals how new technologies are being used to extract bitumen from oil sands. In the face of one of the bleakest scenes of man-made destruction, being the strip mining of oil sands in the forests of Alberta, Canada – it is hardly surprising that environmental campaigners want to restrict or shut down the…
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Topic: With everyone in the world being locked-down, bored rigid with nothing much better to do and in desperate need of speaking with someone other than their significant other or dog, it’s a full-house at The Outliers Inn with guests who hail from the States, the UK, Germany, and Iceland being represented. The episode is long,…
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According to many forecasters, China is moving towards making the yuan a fully fledged reserve currency so as to rival the dollar and the euro. China’s policymakers are still undecided on the matter, however – as they often are with regard to freeing finance. On the one hand, restricting the flow of money into and…
Thomas Goetz: It’s Time to Redesign Medical Data
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