Eurologistics Magazine: “Guerilla Transformation” – Change an Insurgency into a Movement

“Partyzanci transformacji”, published in the April 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.
“Guerilla Transformation” – Original article in English.

“Partyzanci transformacji”, published in the April 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.
“Guerilla Transformation” – Original article in English.

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…

With fifteen years of international work experience, Caroline Bondier joined with KONE Corporation in 2011 as a CRM Business Analyst and has moved up the ranks of leadership to her present position as the Director, Process Development and Program Management for KONE’s Modernization Business Line. After some struggle to find work, Caroline started her career…

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“Stepping Stones of the Lean Journey – Editorial Introduction”; LMJ Board Member and OpEx Society Founder, Joseph Paris, introduces this month’s magazine with a thought provoking narrative on the stepping stones of the journey that is Lean. Published in Lean Management Journal in the June 2015 issue. Download PDF
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Charles Darwin in his book, “The Origin of Species” (read full PDF book here) proposed that evolution occurs with the introduction of challenging or adverse circumstances on a population of a species such that only those who are able to adapt (either by natural selection or by action) thrive (or even survive). For instance, the…