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  • Welcome to Production Hell
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    Welcome to Production Hell

    ByJoseph Paris October 28, 2021November 23, 2021

    Back in the middle of 2017, as Tesla was ramping up the production of the Model-3 and the company was worth only $63.5 billion (as opposed to $1 trillion today), Elon Musk famously stated that he was entering “Production Hell“.  Evidently, he made it through just fine. But people reading this might think; “Isn’t Musk…

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  • State of Readiness; Ofra Kalechstain, CEO of Matics
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    State of Readiness; Ofra Kalechstain, CEO of Matics

    ByXONITEK December 1, 2020September 29, 2025

    In this episode I invite Ofra Kalechstain, CEO of Matics, to join me to share her story and the story of Matics; a publisher of suite of Manufacturing Executions Systems (MES) applications that help manufacturers monitor and manage their production operation activities.  As CEO, Ofra’s responsibilities are to lead and steward the company’s ambitions to…

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  • State of Readiness; Stephane Jeanmart, Syngenta
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    State of Readiness; Stephane Jeanmart, Syngenta

    ByXONITEK July 25, 2019September 29, 2025

    Welcome to this episode of the State of Readiness podcast – with Stephane Jeanmart from Syngenta I welcome Stephane Jeanmart, Chemistry Operational Excellence Lead at Syngenta, a global agrochemical business headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.  In this episode, Stephane shares his journey from being formally trained in Chemistry, a discipline of predictable outcomes governed by formulas and exactness, to a less exact…

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  • Hurry Up and Slow Down
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    Hurry Up and Slow Down

    ByJoseph Paris May 28, 2019January 6, 2020

    I just got off the golf course hitting 9-holes with my Pop, who is 84 years old.  God bless him, I hope he has many more rounds to play and I look forward to getting out as often as I can with him.  We played the En-Joie Golf Club; a stop on the PGA Tour…

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  • Golf
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    CLUBLINK Life – Golf Fundamentals for Business – Spring 2016

    ByJoseph Paris February 2, 2017January 6, 2020

    XONITEK Chairman and Founder of the OpEx Society, Joseph Paris shares here his views on the relevance and importance of operational excellence as it relates to golf – as seen in the Spring 2016 edition of CLUBLINK Life. Download PDF Read the original article by Joseph Paris here: “Business Lessons Learned from Playing Golf“

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