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®.

Every moment of every day, a person takes action. Some of these actions are involuntary in that the person does not have to contemplate their taking place, such as: breathing, the heart beating, digestive process, etc… And some of these actions are voluntary in that the person is consciously involved in taking the action, such…
CONTENT PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONAs seen in the Jun-2015 edition of the Lean Management Journal Continuous Improvement (CI) is a well-established concept within organisations. Many have developed elaborate CI strategies and transformation programmes. However, in our opinion, there is a fundamental problem that advocates of CI need to address. How successful have we been as a CI…

I produce three podcasts. What started as just a little bit more than a hobby has developed into a few platforms that serve a variety of interests; each unique from the other, but all related in that they are all about business and business goings-on. The longest-running podcast that I produce is “The Outliers Inn”…
Dimensions of Business Viability, Profitabilty & Success How Many Dimensions of Your Business Can You See? Thursday August 2, 2007 Albany Institute of History & Art (Albany, NY) Register Now! How Can I Be More Active in Improving the Performance and Profitabilty of My Business? Here Are SOME Of the Questions We’d Like to Address…

Background What is lean? The majority of people when asked this question reply “waste elimination”. This is true. However, Taiichi Ohno’s original definition of lean was “the complete and thorough elimination of waste to reduce the timeline from receipt of customer order to delivery”. To achieve this more complete definition necessitates the creation of product…
“Charting the Right Course” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the February 2013 issue. Download PDF