Lean Management Journal – “Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris
“Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in March 2012.

“Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in March 2012.

Narconomics = Narcotics + Economics. A term denoted to convey possible management lessons learned from Mexico’s drug lords. For a country with an economy brought to its knees in 2009, it should be surprising to learn that Mexico still houses 11 billionaires. Well, perhaps not too surprising in the light of their thriving drug trade…

I am a big advocate of leadership development. I study and push leadership development through all I do in life. I once read that General Dwight D. Eisenhower was asked how he managed to lead such a diverse group of people to work together to win Europe from the Nazis. He answered, “Sir, it is one team, or we lose.” How…
The Ancestry of Genomic Sequencing Production I recently received my own DNA analysis results from a company called 23andMe. The very fact that DNA analysis has reached general availability, and that a certain level of analysis is available for under $100 directly correlates to significant decreases in production costs. First, I do need to state…

A few months ago, I was asked to conduct a Workshop, deliver a Keynote, and Chair a three-day Conference on Manufacturing Process Excellence in Europe, produced by the Process Excellence Network (PEX), a division of IQPC, and held in Munich, Germany. Although that was a lot to ask of me, the line-up of speakers and…

In a recent podcast on PEX, Nigel Clements (advisor with UK-based non-profit Deming Forum) was asked: “The world of business contains a bewildering array of approaches to process improvement and process management. But sometimes it can seem like we’re having hardly any effect on business operations. So how can we improve the business of improvement?”…

Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®. Download PDF