The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
Do you benchmark? Do you use benchmarks? What’s the difference and why should you care? The answers to these questions depends first on the context: are you a surveyor, a geo-cacher, a technician measuring computer performance … or a leader or change-agent concerned with improving an organization’s performance? This article is aimed at those of you in the…
The want for more money is our human nature. The constant need for more driving us and pushing us. But how much is enough, and how far would you go to accrue more revenue, is question we all ask ourselves. Four Rio Tinto employees in China took matters into their own hands when their took…
As is my habit, I occasionally “google” my name (with XONITEK, so that I don’t get the Joseph Paris that is into hair) to see what might be out there. I get the expected links to the various articles I have written or events in which I have taken part, but occasionally I get surprised.
What went wrong at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)? Albert Einstein once said “the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result”. It seems this might ring true with regards to poor decision making and risk taking that didn’t pay off time and time again at the…
The balance of economic power is shifting away from America and Europe to Asia, but this eastward movement is not new. Asia rebounded from the recession much faster than the developed world – it even overtook Germany as the biggest exporter in the world. And, is the front runner for technology and production of motor vehicles….
We live in a digital age where information is readily accessible at your fingertips, at any moment. You can instantly become a mechanic by searching Google, Yahoo, or any other search engine or even checking a video on YouTube. We live in a time where if the correct data is collated it can pick up…
