EPISODE #6: JOSEPH PARIS & RICK HULSE: STATE OF READINESS & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE – TAKING CI TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Are the current Lean and Six Sigma efforts sufficient to give companies a sustainable advantage in today’s volatile, competitive, and ever changing marketplace? Author, international entrepreneur, strategist, consultant and speaker Joseph Paris joins me and Rick Hulse, his longtime wingman and Executive Managing Director of XONITEK, the company JP founded in 1985, as we discuss the pros and cons of today’s current continuous improvement processes and programs and the necessary next steps companies must take to prepare for the harsh realities of the twenty-first century.
Jonathon Taurman, director of global Lean/Operational Excellence @ GE Healthcare said it this way in his comments about JP’s book, State of Readiness, “This is next -level thinking, moving from isolated standards and abnormalities, to creating a proactive organization that is developing predictive-outcome systems”…
