Lean Management Journal – “Servants to the Cause” by Joseph Paris
“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.

“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.

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Outliers Inn podcast: Corporate Superstition. Topic: Join Antlerboy and JP as they talk with Stephan Meyer where they discuss the topic of Corporate Superstition. Why are things done “this way” and not some other way in various corporations. What happens when the old ways are found to be incorrect? What are some ways…

The Chinese internet is developing at an impressive pace. Already it is the world’s largest online population, with over 60% of the country are not even online yet. As this population grows, so does the number of characteristics of the Chinese internet that make its uniquely distinctive from that of the Western world. This seems…

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Unless you are a person that firmly believes there will be a second wave – or even that there might be a second wave – the reactions and measures taken to the COVID-19 pandemic are starting to calm down and the world is beginning to unwind the measures that have been put in place; albeit…

Fortune poses the question: So, who’s winning? The disruptors or the incumbents? This article means that while incumbents often get a bad rap, the truth is that for every sector where technological change has enabled fleet-footed digital disruptors to innovate business models, there are even more where established players still prevail. Furthermore the reader is…

I was the Chairman at a three-day conference on Operational Excellence and Business Transformation recently and was really impressed by the number of people in attendance and the caliber of the speakers. Some of the speakers discussed technology, and their vision of the future. But most of the speakers focused on softer skills; leadership, innovation,…