Uptime Magazine – “Operational Excellence: See the Flow of Value” by Joseph Paris
Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®. Download PDF
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Ferrari-Fueled Maserati at $65,600 Lures Bored BMW Buyers
Bloomberg reports that Maserati, the Italian maker of exotic cars, is shifting its focus from the elite to the merely wealthy. They hope to shift their target market (slightly) with a mid-sized sedan called the Ghibli. The new car, which will start at $65,600, is said to represent a direct challenge to mainstay German models like…
Insight – It takes an army: Tens of thousands of workers roll out Obamacare
A Reuters analysis has found that the number of people working to implement “Obamacare” has reached the tens of thousands. Call them the Obama-army, if you will. Indeed, State offices that will run insurance exchanges are hiring tens of thousands, either on staff or through outsourcing firms. And futhermore, federal agencies that are key to implementing…
The car that parks itself
The Economist reports that according to Google, cars that need no driver are just around the corner. But Google does not make cars (yet), so it will be up to firms that do to bring the technology to the market. And with carmakers being a conservative bunch, the autonomous car is to arrive slowly and…
Catching on at last
The director of North Kenwood-Oakland school says a new form of teaching that blends software with human intervention, helps her pupils learn faster. It also allows teachers at this school to spend more time teaching and less time marking written work. And let be realistic – the idea that technology can revolutionise education is not new….
In a hole
The Economist reports that recent commodity busts have left more of a mark on the barren mining region of northern Chile than preceding booms. For example, Sierra Gorda, a ramshackle copper-mining village in the middle of the Atacama Desert, now finds itself in a hole. It actually looks like it is heading toward a decrepitude, despite huge…
