ByJoseph F. Paris, Jr.
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“Servants to the Cause” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the September 2012 issue.
It is a do or die decade ahead for big oil companies. With an evermore energy and eco-conscious society things have to change and because oil companies are so large change is often slow and the consequences considerable… Read more
The Economist reports that recent commodity busts have left more of a mark on the barren mining region of northern Chile than preceding booms. For example, Sierra Gorda, a ramshackle copper-mining village in the middle of the Atacama Desert, now finds itself in a hole. It actually looks like it is heading toward a decrepitude, despite huge…
“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. Download PDF
The Economist reports on a comparison of two democrats’ views on how to manage the government best. The two men are Gavin Newsom and Mr Sunstein – and they have both written books about reforming the public sector. Both present themselves as post-partisan and both argue that Barack Obama has done a lot to improve American government. Mr Newsom’s…
I love the smell of machine oil. I love to hear the clanging and clanking of machinery in operation. I love the banging when one machine hammers away at a piece of metal to form it into something new or the high-pitched “whir” of a loom or spinner in operation. And I love the way huge apparatus groan…
ByTED
Inventor, Anna Mracek Dietrich is one of the creators behind the Transition; the “plane you can drive”. The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seat, single-engine airplane that functions like any other small airplane. Only, once on the ground, users can fold up the wings and drive it home. In this TED-Talk, Dietrich provides insight into the…
