It is contended that giant internet firms such as Google and Facebook like to view their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a result of lucky timing and network effects – the economic forces that tend to make bigger firms even bigger. But often forgotten,…
ByHBR.org
Intensive care physician Peter Pronovost and chief engineers Alan Ravitz and Conrad Grant, contrasts the way we build hospitals to the approcah taken by an aircraft manufacturer upon deciding to create a new model. Where the former typically happens in a piecemeal, patchwork approach, the latter doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, to…
ByTED
In this technologically oriented TED talk, digital visionary Kevin Kelly compares technology to the actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley – which is unpredictable, but of which the general direction is inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound…
Steps for DESIGNING AN OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (OEMS): Operational Excellence (OE): What is OE? Extensive research on OE related literature led me to the conclusion that there are many definitions of OE. Below are some definitions that are more commonly used: Definition 1: OE is an all-encompassing management system, covering the entire business with a…
In this issue: – KAPCI 4 year LEAN Project – Bel Sustainable Manufacturing Model – Supply Chain Excellence Conference in March – Volunteering role of OPEX Egypt Chapter members It gives us a great pleasure when we see new members joining our monthly meetings as an indication of our community getting bigger especially this meeting…
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. Download PDF Read the original article by Joseph Paris here: “Business Lessons Learned from Playing Golf“
