OpEx – PART OF or SEPARATE FROM Business Transformation?

In this article, mention is made of the official OpEx Maturity deployment model as configured by Joseph Paris. Read the entire article here.

In this article, mention is made of the official OpEx Maturity deployment model as configured by Joseph Paris. Read the entire article here.
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 in the…

There was a recent post in the Operational Excellence Group that I own on LinkedIn. The post was about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Lean Six Sigma program and the benefits that were realized. The person who created the post was rather excited that the program had saved NASA $1.3 million. Reading this got me pondering. …
I was speaking with a friend who is the Chief Operating Officer of a multi-national chemical processing company a few weeks ago. We were speaking about the various challenges that he is facing, which are not unlike the challenges faced by many companies. His most important goal was to maximize profits whilst minimizing inventory –…

Courtesy of Operational Excellence Society ,‘Lean and Operational Excellence Progression: “A State of Readiness”’ offers the following exceptional takeaways: For the 21st Century Company, time is the enemy. Whether its technology, competition, globalization, or geopolitical; we live in a world of disruption and uncertainty that is coming at us at an accelerated pace from just a few years…

I believe it might be safely said without debate that the most important date in the history of Supply Chain and Logistics is April 26th, 1956. This is the date that the SS Ideal-X set sail from the Port of Newark in New Jersey (USA). Five days later, when it arrived in the Port of Houston in Texas (USA), marked the beginning of…

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” —John F. Kennedy It seems at every conference, symposium, or other gathering of thought leaders for higher learning where the topic is Lean Six Sigma, many of the attendees—and almost all of…