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

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®.

I truly love my career – well, most of the time and in most aspects of it anyway. I enjoy the thrills of running my own consultancy firm and being in command of my destiny – even when (perhaps especially when) I need to react to the unexpected. It seems that I am at my…

“Why Isn’t Government Lean?”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, weighs in on the role of lean in government. Published in Lean Management Journal in the May/June 2014 issue. Download PDF
Using East of England as a Springboard for Entry Into Europe Specializing in Operational Excellence and leveraging the disciplines of Lean Six-Sigma, XONITEK Corporation is a management and technologies consulting firm that operates worldwide and has a reputation for improving the performance of client companies. Headquartered in New York, the company provides highly-skilled practitioners with real world experience…

Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to guest lecture, usually at the Master’s level, at various Universities in Upstate New York. I find the experience very rewarding as I have the opportunity to bring value to the next generation. But, most importantly, I am always enriching my knowledge in the classroom…
The success of improvement programs in most organizations not only impacts their competitiveness, but in many cases also their survival. Programs like Operational Excellence, Lean Transformation, Process Re-engineering, Cost Reduction, etc., are launched with a lot of fanfare, but sadly, they either die an unnatural death after some time or become painfully slow. Much care…
I recently read an article in the Operational Excellence Group: Getting to the Corporate Promised Land. It’s a great article listing the business benefits of Lean Manufacturing, or as I prefer to call it: Operational Excellence. The article cites progress and benefits in two companies – Toyota and Danaher. The benefits include: lead time reduction, productivity…
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