“Lean Six Sigma Must Be a Waste of Energy” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in May 2012.
The Economist reports that according to Google, cars that need no driver are just around the corner. But Google does not make cars (yet), so it will be up to firms that do to bring the technology to the market. And with carmakers being a conservative bunch, the autonomous car is to arrive slowly and…
This article is provided courtesy of theleanmag, a content partner of the Operational Excellence Society. What I like most about “Lean” or Kaizen is that when you apply it in the correct way and in the way it usually was designed to be implemented, you can make people’s work easier and less stressful. To me that…
Although the idea of quantum computing to carry out tasks far faster than any conventional machine goes back decades, such super machines were yet to reach the masses – until now. It was originally proposed in the early 1980s and subsequently adopted by Google, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM – who have each dedicated quantum-computing research groups….
These days it appears advertisers may be losing the plot a little, as suggested by their choice of loony tunes, or questionable songs, chosen as backing tracks to big budget adverts. Consider this year’s Christmas advert for John Lewis, a British department store. The store opted for a version of The Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please…
When I was a child one of my favourite cartoons was Scooby Doo, with its ‘tongue in cheek’ humour and pseudo ’70s approach to life. Even the low budget nature of Hanna Barbera’s cartoon was compelling and somehow added to the enticement of the programme. However, during some recent reflection on Leadership challenges I considered…
The Chinese internet is developing at an impressive pace. Already it is the world’s largest online population, with over 60% of the country are not even online yet. As this population grows, so does the number of characteristics of the Chinese internet that make its uniquely distinctive from that of the Western world. This seems…
