Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2017

Issue: 2017-03

March 2017

Founder’s Corner

CEO’s and their Sausages – Learn to Love them Like They Do

Joseph F Paris Jr

It’s been another week, much like the many other weeks for me. In addition to running a couple of companies, working on a few projects and pitching others, and the routine management and engagement of the Operational Excellence Group on LinkedIn; I had a few more conversations with the leadership of Continuous Improvement or Operational Excellence (CI/OpEx) Programs at various companies (most in the Fortune 1,000).

Almost always, the CI/OpEx leader will tell me how strategic their program is; how important to the success of the company and how much value they are driving. They speak about all the really great things they have accomplished and are accomplishing. And they tell me how proud they are of their team – how they are consistently making a positive and indelible impact on the company. All really and truly good stuff.

However…

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May 20 – May 23 2017 | Pittsburgh, PA

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Joseph Paris will be acting as a member of the advisory board and deliver three break-out sessions at this event. Connect with and learn from others during the conference’s educational sessions and networking events.

Thought Food

The next-generation operating model for the digital world

The disruption reality – how are organizations actually reacting?

Why we shouldn’t underestimate the power of diversity

Five ways to nurture developing leaders in an ecosystem for growth

Case Study:

Lean Six Sigma helps reorganize, streamline front-to-back process for European bank

By Adrian Grant

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE GROUP is one of Europe’s largest banks-it has more than 54 million customers, 160,000 employees, 11,600 branches worldwide and several specialized subsidiaries. Its investment banking arm, the Paris-based Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CA-CIB), recently launched a lean Six Sigma (LSS) initiative and identified its cash payments process as one area ripe for substantial improvement.

Trust me…

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The Outliers Inn Podcast

Episode 16 – Agile Development in the Public Service Industry

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Join Antlerboy and JP as they talk with Matt Barnaby where they discuss the application of agile development practices in the public service industry.

Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies Benjamin Taylor, Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Guests: Matt Barnaby. As member of the Red Quadrant team, his purpose is to make things better for people, bit by bit… by bit. Their passion is to transform organisations in an agile way, developing a true improvement culture.

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Operational Excellence is Not Something New

There is a lot of content created around Operational Excellence and its companion disciplines – including; Leadership, Lean, Six-Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Project Management, and so on – which together comprise Operational Excellence (including the content produced by myself). But are all of these concepts as “new” as some would have you believe? Have they never been embraced or implemented in the past?

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Operational Excellence is a state of readiness attained as the efforts throughout the enterprise reach a state of alignment for pursuing its strategies; where the corporate culture is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance AND the circumstances of those who work there – and is a precursor to becoming a high-performance organization….

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-Joseph F Paris Jr; Founder, Operational Excellence Society LLC®

Read: “The Operational Excellence Manifesto”