Rick Hulse, Director of Business Development-XONITEK: A discussion around the most critical and under served areas of the Operational Excellence space……”creating a culture that will ensure a successful continuous improvement program.”
Dear Readers I am deep in the throes of finishing my first book and am working diligently on completing the first draft before I send it to the butcher (ie. Editor). My target date is end-of-December (which is reasonably attainable). As such, I find that I am not really able to parse my attention and energy…
What Performance, Relationship, Innovation and Values have in common is that each is an arena for enhancing, focusing, or suppressing peoples’ energy. It follows that the projects with the most available energy are far more likely to succeed. Good ideas and the force of will are not enough. Consider the following examples. TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO…
“Changing a Continuous Improvement Initiative into a Global Program”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, discusses the tribal nature of people and how it hinders the scaling of lean in business. Published in Lean Management Journal in the July 2014 issue. Download PDF
There is a lot of content created around Operational Excellence and its companion disciplines – including; Leadership, Lean, Six-Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Project Management, and so on – which together comprise Operational Excellence (including the content produced by myself). But are all of these concepts as “new” as some would have you believe? Have they…
Operational Excellence in hard times – a distraction or an imperative? The crash in the economy is requiring everyone to re-evaluate their position and make decisions on what they need to do differently. For many, it will require a fundamental re-thinking of how to go about business; the challenge is to plan and ride out the…
The number, size and scope of things distracting management’s attention from the task of running the business continues to expand at an increasing pace. Denial of the threats from smoldering issues drives leaders to underestimate the potential for reputational and financial damage that can be caused by bad information gone viral. If you want senior…
