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  • The Importance of a Project Review Board
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    The Importance of a Project Review Board

    ByJoseph Paris March 31, 2022April 26, 2022

    A key to success in any Operational Excellence or Continuous Improvement program will be found in the way opportunities for improvement are harvested and prioritized; and how well the projects are managed and evaluated. I have written several articles over the past few years on what it takes to successfully design and deploy an Operational…

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  • Deepfakes and the Uncanny Valley
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    Deepfakes and the Uncanny Valley

    ByJoseph Paris January 10, 2022January 14, 2022

    Introduction Did you ever look at a video clip, or a sound bite, or a picture and it made you uneasy; but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it?  Chances are that it made you uneasy because it wasn’t real.  Rather, it was intended to make you believe it was real; to fool you. …

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  • A man’s gotta know his limitations
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    A man’s gotta know his limitations

    ByJoseph Paris December 19, 2021

    This article is a last of a series about a turn-around engagement I had in 2021.  From the outside, even on the surface, the company looked successful.  But by the time I arrived, a serious cancer had metastasized and had left no organ, no business function, without considerable rot.  It was going to take invasive…

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  • Respect the Neural Network of Your Business
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    Respect the Neural Network of Your Business

    ByJoseph Paris November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

    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…

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  • Welcome to Production Hell
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    Welcome to Production Hell

    ByJoseph Paris October 28, 2021November 23, 2021

    Back in the middle of 2017, as Tesla was ramping up the production of the Model-3 and the company was worth only $63.5 billion (as opposed to $1 trillion today), Elon Musk famously stated that he was entering “Production Hell“.  Evidently, he made it through just fine. But people reading this might think; “Isn’t Musk…

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