Issue 153 – 05 | The Operational Excellence Manifesto

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Lessons on Air Travel⦠Unlike most people I know, I actually enjoy flying. Itās mostly the result of an attitude that I project when taking a trip, coupled with an amount of planning and making sure I get to the airport well ahead of time. If there is a layover involved, I want a MINIMUM…

Something isĀ seriously wrong⦠The healthcare industry as a whole in the United States is corrupt, dysfunctional, ineffective, and inefficient.Ā And regardless of āparty affiliationā, everyone appears to share this opinion.Ā The only real disagreement (and a heated disagreement at that) is what should be done about it, and whether what has been done to date…

A key to success in any Operational Excellence or Continuous Improvement program will be found in the way opportunities for improvement are harvested and prioritized; and how well the projects are managed and evaluated. I have written several articles over the past few years on what it takes to successfully design and deploy an Operational…
Welcome to our third installment of the Thought Leader Interview series in which we interview Joseph Paris. Joseph is a keynote speaker, writer and consultant in Operational Excellence who shares his insights on the State of Readiness in Operational Excellence and how organizations can build up execution capabilities, accelerate their decision making and stay competitive…

There is a lot of content created around Operational Excellence and its companion disciplines ā including; Leadership, Lean, Six-Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Project Management, and so on ā which together comprise Operational Excellence (including the content produced by myself).Ā But are all of these concepts as ānewā as some would have you believe?Ā Have they…

I wrote theĀ first versionĀ of this article two years ago and offered anĀ updated versionĀ last year.Ā I have had a great many people remark to me that it has helped them a great deal (which is the point, I guess.)Ā I have also had several people give me some new ideas and, of course, I have had…