I was coaching one of the national oil companies in the Middle East, offering mentorship to the director of their operational excellence program. He was frustrated because he had invested considerable funds building a team of sixty Lean Six Sigma Black Belts over a nine-month period, and they had not yet worked on—much less completed—any
January 2019 Monthly Musing By now, most of us have made and broken our “New Year’s Resolutions”. But I recently came across the idea of a “dream-map” which might prove to be more useful. It’s similar to an A4 exercise found in Lean. But instead of being forensic and detailed,
Issue: 2017-05 May 2017 Founder’s Corner Briefing; A State of Readiness Joseph Paris It’s taken a long time-but the time has finally come. The release of my book, ” State of Readiness“, has arrived. My project officially started almost two and a half years ago. That was the day I formally sat down