ByJoseph F. Paris, Jr.
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“Increase Quality, Increase Velocity”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, explores the financial industry’s attempts at lean and shows where the real savings have been made.
Published in Lean Management Journal in the September 2014 issue.
The Economist reports on The American economy’s state of health, how it has deteriorated over the past two decades and proposes some suggestions for how to raise it once more. Factually, America’s economic prospects began to bloom back in the 1990’s, when productivity soared and immigrants and foreign capital flocked to take advantage of what was…
According to the IMF, who recently released its latest World Economic Outlook – the global economy is likely to expand by 4.2% in 2010. But economic performances will vary around the world – America’s forecast was revised and upped 0.4% to 3.1%. The euro area unfortunately saw no change, but estimations that it may only…
Steve Jobs once said: “Be a Yardstick of Quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected” Therefore a Quality Mind-set will only pervade the organisation when the Leadership actively models the behaviour. Only by living the approach to Quality that they desire can Leaders truly drive the change to a Culture…
Reuters means that the World Economic Forum terrifies us with a litany of global risks every year, while challenging us to make better use of facts and reason to address our problems. And tackling that challenge is exactly what Reuters and its parent, Thomson Reuters, do every day: harnessing information of all kinds from all…
One of the biggest challenges of a Lean Transformation is to create the ‘Vision of Excellence’; what should we aim to achieve over the coming years, what is possible? This is often problematic because the majority of people in the organisation ‘don’t know what they don’t know’; that is, they haven’t seen what truly Operationally…
When you were born, everyone could see the twinkle in your eyes for the fire and passion you held. As you grew, you became inspired by the reported accomplishments of others; and consumed with great enthusiasm and dedication every bit of knowledge that was at your disposal. You had the good fortune of being influenced…
