The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
Down South, Brazil’s alternative-investment industry appears to be thriving. The country’s private equity and hedge-fund industry has successfully attracted welcome international attention, and money pouring in. But why there? And why now? Experts have pegged the maturing of the country’s capital markets as well as a decline in interest rates. However, while Brazil’s equity markets…
Six Sigma and other significant development projects too often do not fulfill their promise. In business, the public sector, academic and military sectors, failure and missed expectations plague innovation projects, technology implementations and other programs. In a recent Innovation Conference in Shanghai, a global corporate executive discussed broadly-based research which showed that 90 percent of companies did…
While it may be sad to see them go, the days of top down driven Lean Six Sigma or Operational Excellence efforts are long gone. Fading from memory are those leaders of the methodology – Bossidy, Welch, Hammer and Champy, wielding recommendations of “cascading the commitment” to the cause of Quality. Our existing leadership just doesn’t have…
ByTED
In this TED-Talk, author of “When China Rules the World” and a columnist for the Guardian and New Statesman, Martin Jacques takes to the stage and provides us with a glimpse into the future. In his presentation, he highlights the fact that China is predicted to have a larger economy that the United States by…
China’s president has argued that the “international currency system is the product of the past”; one that reflects the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks. Indeed, the dollar is more than just a reserve currency, for many countries, it is a “key” or at least the key currencies. The Chinese exchange rate revolve around the dollar….
Commodities are having a go at the pockets of the people, and the situation only seems to be getting worse. Oil costs haven’t been this high since last October, food prices rival those of July 2008 (when food prices were at their peak), and copper prices are officially at an all time high. The concern?…
