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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 February ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Learnings from Africa I love South and Southern Africa, ever since I first went there in 1995 to deliver training on how to implement and ERP system in a manufacturing environment. I made sure to…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022/23 Holiday Edition ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived and departed, and of our professional successes and disappointments. With rebuilding spirit and energy, we look with great anticipation…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 November ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Culture Change: Go Ugly Early – Go Ugly Fast I hear a lot about “culture change”, but what is culture? Why do we need to change it? What changes would need to be made? And…

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….

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 September ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Time to rethink Just-In-Time Just-In-Time is an approach to managing inventory flows. The basic premise is that product is not manufactured or procured unless there is a demand for it from the end-customer. For the…

Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 July/August ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Best Practices for Designing and Deploying an Operational Excellence Program I have written a lot of articles and generated a lot of content for the benefit of those individuals and organizations that wish to launch…