Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2023
Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 February Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Learnings from Africa I love South and Southern Africa, ever since I first went there in 1995 to deliver training on how to implement and ERP system in a manufacturing environment. I made sure to go…
State Of Readiness | Norbert Majerus; Author, Consultant, and Lean Champion (Ret) Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Hello and welcome to another edition of State of Readiness with your host, Joseph Paris. My guest today is Norbert Majerus; Author of “Lean-Driven Innovation” and “Winning Innovation” and a Lean Champion (Ret) from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He confesses that he went into engineering because he didn’t like to working with people and…
The Outliers Inn | (Re)Setting Attitudes, The Peter Principle, Golf, and more.
Another episode of The Outliers Inn with “The Beer Man” joining JP and Mule as co-co-host. Maybe he will become a regular co-co-host (he’s already an irregular regular guest here at The Outliers Inn. After a brief acknowledgement that the Super Bowl was pretty entertaining, but nobody we know really cared who won, we get into…
The Outliers Inn | Travel, Robots, Focus, and ChatGPT
Give a listen… What’s better than two hosts? Why, three, of course! Mule said he couldn’t make it, so JP drafted Don (who is an irregular regular and has stepped-in to the role of co-host in the past). But, wouldn’t you know it, Mule was able to join. So, we have a three-way! The podcast starts…
State Of Readiness | Ben Cook; Chief Supply Chain Officer, Spreetail
Give a listen… My guest today is Ben Cook, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Spreetail, a next-generation 3PL company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. We start the conversation with Ben sharing his early years. His father was an Army Officer who resigned soon after Ben was born to have a more stable family life. But that didn’t…
Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2023
Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 January Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Artificial Intelligence and Continuous Improvement In January of 2022, I wrote an article entitled “Deepfakes and the Uncanny Valley”. I shared my concern about AI having the ability to manipulate, even fabricate, what we see and…