“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.
Fighter pilots, Grunt and Boom, kick it around with PLinc and OpEx Society’s Founder, Joe “JP” Paris and discuss Operational Excellence, Temper Tantrums, Professional Reading and Flowing Robes. This is the INTERNET VERSION of the show, uncut/unedited and with lots of YUKS and CHUCKLES. Click here to listen.
The Economist takes us on a journey into the factory of the future. Now, even though some countries are urging government to boost domestic industry, trouble is, most policymakers don’t understand modern manufacturing, let alone how technology is transforming it. Yet, the Economist predicts that in the future, more manufactured products will be packaged with…
McKinsey & Co means that as the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, the EV-battery market represents an opportunity for European players. This thoroughly revealing article assesses the potential and looks at factors guiding the location of production capacity and might be ever-relevant insofar as it is so far untapped, and a potential great opportunity…
ByTED
Science writer, John Bohannon is a both a scientist and writer, and currently, runs the annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest. In this most unusual yet riveting TED-Talk, Bohannon proposes that the average presentation may be far more effectively communicated via the medium of dance than by means of a boring slide deck or power point….
We all look at the world from one perspective – our own. The perspectives we hold are born out of the circumstances of our upbringing and further developed by the experiences we gain during our lives. As such, one would expect that the perspective of some who have experienced much in their lives will be wider than…
Brazil had been struggling for years to decide which company to choose for a $4 billion-plus fighter jet contract. Dilma Rousseff was thrilled after a 90-minute meeting in Brasilia on May 31 with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. After Biden’s reassurances that the United States would not block crucial transfers of technological know-how to Brazil if it…
