“Why Isn’t Government Lean?”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, weighs in on the role of lean in government.
Published in Lean Management Journal in the May/June 2014 issue.
Spend five minutes watching a group of young children play soccer, and you will likely be entertained by the spectacle. There’s enthusiasm, laughter, a lot of movement, and almost no structure. Eleven kids (though it could be seven, or five, or however many happen to be on the field) swarm the ball like bees to…
Lessons on Air Travel… Unlike most people I know, I actually enjoy flying. It’s 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…
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…
In my book, “State of Readiness” is a brief discussion on “Effects Chains” (pgs 271-277); which is really a re-branding (for purposes of sensibilities) of “kill chains” that I borrowed from military parlance and adapted to business. In the context of the military, a kill chain refers to a series of stages or steps that…
I devote a lot of my time helping people and companies get from their present reality to some new reality. It is rarely easy and – although almost always considered a success – the success is not quite as complete as it could be. This is the norm; the expectation. And this is not because…
In my last article, “Strings of the Universe… How are You Connected,” I discussed the book The Elegant Universe, by Brian Green, and how the fabric of the universe, “String Theory,” and the “Theory of Everything (TOE)” can be applied to the social dynamics of the human endeavor and how we are all connected like…
