Learnings from Africa
It was the spring of 1995 and my firm (XONITEK) was one of the top implementers of Macola Software’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. We were the very top when it came to implementing in a manufacturing environment. As such, I was invited to Macola’s summit to share my views on the future direction of the…
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…
Artificial Intelligence and Continuous Improvement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly impact the field of continuous improvement by providing organizations with new tools and techniques to identify and eliminate waste and improve performance. Some ways that AI can be used in continuous improvement include: It is worth mentioning that AI is not a silver bullet, the success of AI…