Lean Management Journal – “Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris

“Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in March 2012.

“Employee Consideration is Key” by Joseph Paris & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in March 2012.

Last October, I was at a manufacturing conference in Chicago during which I had the privilege of being invited to a dinner hosted by David Deutsch. And it was during this dinner that I was introduced to Ralph Keller – who is the President of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). Thank you, David… Ralph…

Would you get on an airplane if it you knew the flight would fail 25-70% of the time? What if it was only 1% of the time? Would you get on an airplane if you knew one out of every hundred (1:100) flights would fail? That would be a failure rate of approximately one flight per hour, every hour,…

How many times have we heard this? How many times have we said it? Personally, I am certain that I say this more than once per day. Sometimes it’s out of frustration, sometimes it’s out of amazement, sometimes it’s just a moment where I give a look and think, “You gotta be kidding me” – it’s the…
Small teams in large corporations can ‘out small’ today’s successful smaller players, and win big. Smaller competitors to today’s largest corporations are consistently winning in customer satisfaction ratings without the so-called economies of scale associated with large (frequently out-sourced) customer care centers. For the largest companies in some key sectors – such as telecommunications, technology, andfinancial services – there is the potential…

“Changing a Continuous Improvement Initiative into a Global Program”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, discusses the tribal nature of people and how it hinders the scaling of lean in business. Published in Lean Management Journal in the July 2014 issue. Download PDF

“Gemba za oknem” (Lean Management), by Joseph Paris published in the October/November 2012 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF
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