Uptime Magazine – “Operational Excellence: See the Flow of Value” by Joseph Paris
Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.

Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.

Those of you who read my articles and follow my missives on social media know that I more often write of the “soft-side” – the “human endeavor” – of Operational Excellence, rather than the forensic details of the tools (including those of Lean Six-Sigma and the like). I do this mostly because I feel that…

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