Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 September ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Article: Design Thinking for Operational ExcellenceTM It has been a while since I have witnessed something new with the potential to be transformative in Operational Excellence; but the introduction of Design Thinking into these disciplines...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 May ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Establishing Kill Chains in Business Operations A kill chain is a systems engineering tool that illustrates a sequence of events within a given complex process, called the mission. As applied to business, the effects chain systematically...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 April ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris The Strategic HR Department Instead of being a strategic force, I find that most HR Departments are tactical; focused on compliance with the various labor laws and regulations and making sure the paperwork is all...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 March ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Culture Change; What is it and why change it? The subject of “culture change” has been a topic at many conferences on Operational Excellence over the past several years. But the conversation always seems to...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 February ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Learnings from Africa I love South and Southern Africa, ever since I first went there in 1995 to deliver training on how to implement and ERP system in a manufacturing environment. I made sure to...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2023 January ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Artificial Intelligence and Continuous Improvement In January of 2022, I wrote an article entitled “Deepfakes and the Uncanny Valley”. I shared my concern about AI having the ability to manipulate, even fabricate, what we see...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022/23 Holiday Edition ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived and departed, and of our professional successes and disappointments. With rebuilding spirit and energy, we look with great anticipation...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 November ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Culture Change: Go Ugly Early – Go Ugly Fast I hear a lot about “culture change”, but what is culture? Why do we need to change it? What changes would need to be made? And...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 October ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Hunger Makes a Good Cook It takes a special kind of person to be an entrepreneur. Most of the time, we are ducks on the water; looking calm on the surface while paddling furiously below....

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 September ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Time to rethink Just-In-Time Just-In-Time is an approach to managing inventory flows. The basic premise is that product is not manufactured or procured unless there is a demand for it from the end-customer. For the...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 July/August ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Best Practices for Designing and Deploying an Operational Excellence Program I have written a lot of articles and generated a lot of content for the benefit of those individuals and organizations that wish to launch...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 June ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Don’t Be Arrogant; You Need Your Customers More Than They Need You. There are thousands of obstacles between a company and its sale – and a customer and their purchase. A company that puts up additional...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 May ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Editor’s Special Edition This is Special Edition of the “Operational Excellence by Design” eNewsletter, published by the Operational Excellence Society . With over 1,000,000 followers and over 25,000 subscribers to our eNewsletter, we are the “center of gravity” for the discipline. Ours is...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 April ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris The 9 Questions To Ask Most companies preparing to launch an Operational Excellence Program do not take a moment to contemplate what their program is hoping to achieve, or even if what they are hoping...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 March ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Creating a Project Review Board I have written many articles with respect to designing and deploying a successful Operational Excellence program and the risks and peril that exist and need to be avoided. However, I...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 February ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Lean Six Sigma – Reality or Myth? Many Continuous Improvement professionals sing high praise of Japan, Japanese business practices, and one of the champions of Japanese industry; Toyota. But if we take a look at...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2022 January December ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Deepfakes and the Uncanny Valley Did you ever look at a video clip, or a sound bite, or a picture and it made you uneasy; but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? Chances...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 December ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris A man’s gotta know his limitations The owner was trying to grow the business but didn’t have the skillset needed to scale it. He was trying to run a $75m per year company on his...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 November ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Respect the Neural Network of Your Business I was working on a turn-around engagement at a distressed company earlier this year. Their IT infrastructure was a shambles holding on by a hope and a prayer....

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 October ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Welcome to Production Hell I was working on a turn-around engagement at a distressed company earlier this year.  With on-time deliveries less than 20% and scrap and rework exceeded 10% of revenue, their manufacturing floor...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 September ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.“ ― Edwin Way Teale Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris Mind your costs I recently came off a turn-around...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 July-August ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “To reach a port we must sail. Sometimes we sail with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Connecting With Us Founder’s Corner – Joseph Paris They are dumb I...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 June ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing Summertime… “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Connecting With...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 May ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 March ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people, and if you keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 February ‌ Monthly Musing “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people, and if you keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except...

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Operational Excellence By DesignSM 2021 January ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with snow.    My little horse...

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Operational Excellence By Design SM 2020 Year-End Highlights ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream....

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Operational Excellence By Design SM December 2020   ‌ ‌ Get your copy of “State of Readiness” today! Monthly Musing “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin FOUNDER’S CORNER Know what? So what… There was a post in...

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      Operational Excellence By Design SM   November 2020 ‌ ‌     Get your copy of “State of Readiness” today!   Monthly Musing   “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” – Henry David Thoreau     FOUNDER’S CORNER   Choose Your Hard   Life is...

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