Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2022

October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people is because they are fixated on the perfect.  They are terrified of what they do not know or understand – and even more terrified to release to those who do.  Their idea of too much…

      Operational Excellence By Design SM   September 2020 ‌ ‌     Get your copy of “State of Readiness” today!   Monthly Musing   “Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you’re really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 December ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris A man’s gotta know his limitations The owner was trying to grow the business but didn’t have the skillset needed to scale it. He was trying to run a $75m per year company on his…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 October ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Hunger Makes a Good Cook It takes a special kind of person to be an entrepreneur. Most of the time, we are ducks on the water; looking calm on the surface while paddling furiously below….

April 2019 Monthly Musing It’s that time of year again – golf season.  I play golf, I don’t work golf.  There is nothing more satisfying than hitting the ball well.  I know, because it happens so infrequently for me that each is memorable.  In fact, I call my clubs “weapons of grass reduction.”  The Germans…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 October ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Welcome to Production Hell I was working on a turn-around engagement at a distressed company earlier this year.  With on-time deliveries less than 20% and scrap and rework exceeded 10% of revenue, their manufacturing floor…