“Lean Six Sigma Must Be a Waste of Energy” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in May 2012.
While the function of money is obvious, it’s origins are anything but. The known use of money dates back millions of years. Various currencies have evolved over this time, from electrum coins in Turkey to paper in China and Cocoa in Central America. But how did these agreements of currency come about? Experts state that…
The internet changed a lot of industries but none more so than the business of gambling. Anyone who wants to gamble, now has the opportunity to do so, if they have an internet connection. The increase in online gambling has threatened some traditional forms such as betting on horses, but appears to benefit others. This…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stopped at nothing in a bid to strategically win over University of Texas law professor Henry Hu to act as the head the first new division created at the agency in almost 40 years. However, the lengths the SEC sought fit to go to are now being questioned. Hu…
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…
Global competition is at such a dynamic level that any day lost without operations improvement imperils the company’s economic livelihood. To out pace the aggressive environment, companies must create a competitive advantage that establishes greater stakeholder value through radical improvements in product and process. One of the most prominent methods currently being utilized by many companies to…
Supply chains are global, and the world is shrinking, meaning a shock to one part is a shock to the whole. And the shocks to supply just keep coming … Just as scientists and public health officials are daring to suggest the Covid pandemic might be entering its end-game, so China announces strict new lockdown measures,…
