I started XONITEK in August of 1985 in Endicott, New York. I still own its latest incarnation, now located in Sheridan, Wyoming. Having owned my own businesses for the last 40 years makes me uniquely unemployable. Perhaps that could change given the right circumstances (whatever those might be). Since the very beginning, the purpose of…
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2328296/episodes/15618466 In this episode, Joseph Paris dives deep into leadership and the pursuit of Business Excellence. He talks with Sebastian Huber about how it all started with a LinkedIn group that grew from 50 to 180,000 members and explores whether Excellence is an attitude or a goal. Paris highlights the importance of true emotions and the feeling…
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…
I was the Chairman at an Operational Excellence and Business Transformation conference in Amsterdam this past March (2023) which was produced by CParity. The lead-off workshop was on Design Thinking. I must admit; my first impression of the workshop was mixed. I thought the concepts of Design Thinking and its approaches were novel. But it…
I was the Chairman at an Operational Excellence and Business Transformation conference in Amsterdam this past March (2023) which was produced by CParity. The lead-off workshop was on Design Thinking and was being delivered by Sean McGuire, a Senior UX Architect from Microsoft and author of the book, “Billboard Design Thinking”. I must admit; my…
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…
