Lean Management Journal: “Why Isn’t Government Lean?”
“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.
“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.

“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.” –…

This session starts off serious with Antlerboy sharing some rather serious endeavors he is launching. But the guests (mercifully) come to visit and breathe life back into the conversation with talks of; robot competitions, beer (again), heaps of cash for consultants in the UK, and the tragedy of a video being removed from YouTube causing…

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Welcome to Episode 5 of the Outliers Inn podcast series – Lean Six Sigma Topic: Lean Six Sigma – Join us as we discuss how to deliver operational excellence from the shop floor all the way up to management. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies & Benjamin Taylor, Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Kevin…

I enjoy guest lecturing at University. In fact, it is one of my most favourite things I do. I believe what I enjoy most is the optimism and energy of the students. They are far too young in their careers to have been tarnished by the pragmatism, and even cynicism, of “real life” – or…