Realizing the Value in Business Processes
I had a very busy May with speaking engagements at the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) NJ Due Diligence Conference followed by the ACG-NY Manufacturing & Logistics Conference and wrapping it up by delivering a paper on Operational Excellence at the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference in Vancouver. The underlying theme of all of…
23-April-08: Vistage International Back to Orb: Rekindling the Bourndaries of the Flat World
Vistage International Back to Orb: Rekindling the Boundaries of the Flat World CoorsTek Clear Creek Valley Plant (Denver, CO) April 23, 2008 (8:30am – 4:30pm) XONITEK Corporation’s President, Joseph Paris, will be the Keynote Speaker for the Vistage International event being held in Denver, Colorado on April 23rd. Mr. Paris’s presentation, Back to Orb: Rekindling the Boundaries of the…
React, Analyze, Act
Every once in a while, a sense of unease comes over me as if I have become untethered and feeling adrift from what I know. Not to be confused with the near euphoria I feel when I embark on an adventure into some unknown, this feeling of being detached is somewhat cold and comes with it…
“Never go into the bush alone”
In 1996, my first assignment to South Africa for XONITEK was being hired by Macola-South Africa to train their personnel – and the personnel of their resellers – on how to implement Macola’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution. It was a very turbulent time in South Africa; apartheid had just ended, there was a new government,…
20-March-08: TMA A View from Accountants
Turnaround Management Association Effective Turnarounds: A View From Accountants The Buffalo Club (Buffalo, NY) March 20, 2008 XONITEK Corporation will participate in the Turnaround Management Association ‘s Effective Turnarounds: A View From Accountants presentation, taking place in Buffalo, New York. Please join XONITEK and the TMA for this second, in a series of, presentations regarding Effective Turnarounds. Click here to register…
When is 18 less than 1…
Let me start by just “laying it out there”: I am a Giants fan and have been all of my life. And I believe that Giants fans are some of the saltiest, most cynical and hardened of fans. For instance, we believe that the “prevent defense” really means to prevent us from winning, as opposed to…