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 believe it might be safely said without debate that the most important date in the history of Supply Chain and Logistics is April 26th, 1956. This is the date that the SS Ideal-X set sail from the Port of Newark in New Jersey (USA). Five days later, when it arrived in the Port of Houston in Texas (USA), marked the beginning of…
Do you benchmark? Do you use benchmarks? What’s the difference and why should you care? The answers to these questions depends first on the context: are you a surveyor, a geo-cacher, a technician measuring computer performance … or a leader or change-agent concerned with improving an organization’s performance? This article is aimed at those of you in the…
XONITEK Announced as Presenting Sponsor for Executive Seminar Series in Albany, New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Binghamton, New York (January 22, 2007): XONITEK Corporation, the Binghamton-based operations management consulting firm that has quietly established a major Capital Region presence, announced today that it will act as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2007 Tech Valley Times FORUM seminar series….

In 1996, my first assignment to South Africa for XONITEK was being hired by Macola-South Africa to train their personnel – and the personnel of their resellers – on how to implement Macola’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution. It was a very turbulent time in South Africa; apartheid had just ended, there was a new…

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 and decided to write a book. But it’s beginning can be traced to an article I…

I was in Denver recently and started chatting with people at the bar (as I am apt to do, from time to time). Regardless of what it might sound like, I meet some rather interesting folks (who are fellow road-warriors like me) and I strike-up some even more interesting conversations. On this particular occasion, I…
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