Eurologistics Magazine: Lean is a Journey
“Lean jest podróżą”, published in the October 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.
“Lean is a Journey” – Original article in English.
“Lean jest podróżą”, published in the October 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.
“Lean is a Journey” – Original article in English.

Topic: Business Owners get the leftovers and – unrelated – how it sucks to get old and looking for a job. The issue has been settled. The Outliers Inn will no longer take reservations, but rely solely on walk-ins. From this day forth, we will rely on the eccentricity of our audience and their eclectic interests,…

Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to guest lecture, usually at the Master’s level, at various Universities in Upstate New York. I find the experience very rewarding as I have the opportunity to bring value to the next generation. But, most importantly, I am always enriching my knowledge in the classroom…
Read the entire version of Joseph Paris’s “Operational Excellence is not something new” as featured in the famous Body of Knowledge on the official Operational Excellence Website. Read it here as featured on the Business Transformation Network.

Welcome to Episode 29 – Malcolm Cawood – Kybernetica Topic: A Capitalist, a Socialist, and a Communist walk into a podcast. No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, just a bad podcast. Malcolm Cawood, owner of Kybernetica, joins Antlerboy and JP to discuss his ideas behind “systems thinking”. He certainly will share his fairly…

There is a saying, rather a curse; “May you live in interesting times”. It is a curse because interesting times are times that are full of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity; interesting times are VUCA times; disruptive, chaotic, and transformative. Whereas life in uninteresting times is predicable, rote, even boring. We are living in interesting…

It seems that at every Conference, Symposium, or other gathering of higher-learning and thought-leaders – where the topic is Lean Six-Sigma – many of the attendees, and almost all of the speakers, glorify and hold with the highest veneration the supposedly unmatched performance and prowess of Japanese companies and their management. Enshrined as proof-positive in…