Email Management is not the problem. Management is.
It is time for the top leadership in organizations of all sizes to recognize that an ad-hoc approach to managing e-mail is highly inefficient and an enormous drag on human resources. E-mail management: the prioritization, planning and archiving of e-mail should be systemized and standardized in every organization.
How to Deliver the Full Potential of a Lean Six Sigma Initiative
As Operational Excellence professionals, we are all dedicated to eliminating waste from the processes we aim at improving. Yet, are we eliminating 100% of our own wastes? Are we leveraging the full benefits of what we are doing? Are we, ourselves, guilty of the 8thwaste (I mean waste of opportunity) as we are not always delivering…
The Gemba Beyond the Window
I love the smell of machine oil. I love to hear the clanging and clanking of machinery in operation. I love the banging when one machine hammers away at a piece of metal to form it into something new or the high-pitched “whir” of a loom or spinner in operation. And I love the way huge apparatus groan and…
EuroLogistics Magazine – “łańcuch wartości w przyszłości” by Joseph Paris – June 2012
“łańcuch wartości w przyszłości”, by Joseph Paris published in the June 2012 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF
Lean Management Journal – “Lean Six Sigma Must Be a Waste of Energy” by Joseph Paris – May 2012
“Lean Six Sigma Must Be a Waste of Energy” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in May 2012. Download PDF
SPECIAL Invitation to Operational Excellence Conferences
Featured Event Invitations: IIE Annual Conference & Expo (Orlando, Florida) Operational Excellence Forum (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (Istanbul, Turkey)