“Review of Operational Excellence Society Launch” – Published in Lean Management Journal in January 2012.
“It is very easy to like Joseph Paris, and not just because he is a great entertainer“…
Earlier this year I shared a tale of woe. One of my long-term clients had suffered a ransomware attack due mostly to the negligence of the business leadership to be respectful of the need to maintain their information technology infrastructure and be vigilant against external threats from bad actors (along with internal threats from system…
The Canadian Division of a global food manufacturer saved 28 million dollars in eight months, and saved several plants from closing, despite their high cost of production in an underutilized manufacturing system. It all began when the senior management stopped resisting what the workforce had to say. They returned to zero and started to listen….
Modern politics are currently faced with the challenge of mitigating inequality without damaging economic growth and subsequently the world economy. However, in the majority of the emerging world, leaders would rather bury their heads in the sand when it comes to the issue of inequality. Why is this? Because at the heart of this subject…
Several gauges show ship congestion continues to clear up even as shortages persist Few observers have had a better perch to watch the pandemic slowly clog — and now free up — one of the biggest arteries of global trade than Captain J. Kipling “Kip” Louttit. Two years ago this week, as fully loaded container ships…
From time to time, I enjoy a good read of “the classics”. I am not certain why the classics are not taught in grade-school anymore – it is a shame. There are so many basic life-lessons that transcend the ages and generations and can be gleaned with grand richness from the tales of literary greats…
Welcome to Episode 29 – Malcolm Cawood – Kybernetica Topic: A Capitalist, a Socialist, and a Communist walk into a podcast. No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, just a bad podcast. Malcolm Cawood, owner of Kybernetica, joins Antlerboy and JP to discuss his ideas behind “systems thinking”. He certainly will share his fairly…
