Uptime Magazine – “Operational Excellence: See the Flow of Value” by Joseph Paris (July 2013)

Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.

Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.
What do these three letters mean to you? A quick poll of the people in the room proved the meaning to be quite elusive. A nine year-old responded, “See are em? I don’t get it, you’re so weird.” A five year-old pondered the question for all of two seconds and said, “huh…can I play Wii?” OK, I didn’t…
What do you see in the clouds? The best way to explain Cloud Computing is to think of it as a cloud; a sometimes formless void – of unknown whereabouts – that contains data and applications which are accessible to a user via the internet. What we are dealing with here is what is in that cloud…
INTRODUCTION Most organizations receive and send documents in order to communicate with their internal and external customers. In this context, documents can be any and all pieces of formal information sent through any media. It can be traditional paper, email, SMS messages, or an XML file. All these types of documents are created within a…
XONITEK’s Joseph Paris reviews Jim Bowie’s book Lean Acres & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the November 2012 issue. Download PDF

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…
The current financial crisis is driving the world into a global recession. There is no job security anymore. Especially in times of financial crisis you need to be independent, become the CEO of your life and redefine yourself in order to create and attract new creative opportunities. This can be realized successfully according to an innovative four-stage authentic personal branding…