Issue 153 – 05 | The Operational Excellence Manifesto

Download the official Operational Excellence Manifesto from Change This !
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Download the official Operational Excellence Manifesto from Change This !
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About the Podcast My guest today is Kevin Robinson, Managing Director of OPEX Performance Solutions Ltd and Toyota Alumni; having spent over 28 years at Toyota UK at the Deeside Engine Plant; starting as an Engineer in 1991 and working his way up the ranks until retiring as the General Manager of Manufacturing Operations. Rather…
I have been involved with theĀ Mergers and AcquisitionsĀ marketplace for several years. I have seen my fair share of the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the orientations, motivations, and activities of the variousĀ Private EquityĀ firms (as well as someHedge Funds) to whom I have been exposed and with whom I have worked….

Welcome to the official ācoming-out partyā of the new Operational Excellence Society. The past few years have been an interesting and exciting journey worthy of any adventure novel, except this one has been very real. As with every adventure, the path has been full of twists and turns. There have been many false starts and…

As I am apt to, from time to time, I recently attended a conference on Operational Excellence and Change Management.Ā There were two issues related to one another that came-up time and again from the āChange-Agentsā as being a challenge and those were; 1) How do I get the support of management and 2) How…

This is a question that I recently felt compelled to flat-out ask a COO of a publicly traded Fortune 500 company in response to a series of comments he made to me during an engagement interview. His shocked response was, āOf course notā¦!ā There was obviously a disconnect someplace. To be sure, we are living…
Arguing and debate (I donāt generally feel there is a difference ā except, perhaps, that a debate consists of a series of arguments) goes back to the beginning of the ages, probably starting at the very moment mankind was able to communicate.Ā One of the most famous early debaters was Socrates, a philosopher from Ancient…