Podcast: Entrepreneur#2 – XONITEK in the House!
The boys of Business Battlefield corral Joseph Paris of XONITEK for an encore appearance to talk about entrepreneurism and the TEWT! This is the internet version, uncut, un-edited…

The boys of Business Battlefield corral Joseph Paris of XONITEK for an encore appearance to talk about entrepreneurism and the TEWT! This is the internet version, uncut, un-edited…

It’s all about the people… … the problem is, that seems hard… The joke often goes that managers pick up the Operational Excellence bible and flip through the chapters: hmmm ‘Create Flow’? Sounds confusing… what else we got? ‘Pull at the rate of demand’? Ok, ok, whatever that means…. ‘Remove Waste’! Aha! THAT I like……

Manufacturing Excellence on the up in CEE CEO Manufacturing Magazine and EuropaProperty.com have successfully completed another CEE Manufacturing Excellence & Industrial Property Awards for the 4th year in succession. Held in Warsaw’s Intercontinental Hotel, the awards ceremony was witnessed by a select group of senior European and Central European Manufacturing professionals; affirming the event’s status…

Can we achieve operational excellence (minimize costs, maximize profits, continuously improve productivity and quality), at the same time do it ethically and legally? Should we? At the end of the year, I am retiring officially but intend to continue volunteer work like writing, helping young professionals, speaking at business events, and part-time consulting. As leader…
The world is littered with examples where once promising opportunities became a source of ongoing disappointment and loss. Key projects, partnerships, mergers, new technology and programs – we launch these things with fanfare and an enthusiastic press release, only to suffer as a helpless spectator as conflict erupts, innovation fizzles and profits disappear. What once seemed…

Global trade patterns are reconfiguring. More shifts are likely and businesses need to be aware of the potential trade-offs of different paths ahead. At a glance Introduction Trade reconfiguration has been making headlines. In 2023, Mexico became the United States’ largest goods trade partner. Vietnam’s trade with China and the United States has been surging….

Principal computer engineer at Intel, Maria Bezaitis, focuses on how constellations of personal data can form new business models. In this TED talk, she means that without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness in the digital word. Strangeness, meaning people and ideas that don’t fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already…