Topic:Ā JP shares his challenges with a recent move of premises.Ā Many of the frustrations involve the discarding of waste in Germany; theĀ myriad of bins and methods of discardingĀ and the confusions that go with their use is but one of the challenges.Ā The biggest challenge, besides JP holding the opinion that his landlords were assholes…
Welcome to Episode 8 of the Outliers Inn podcast āĀ Operational excellence in Government ā an impossible dream? Topic:Ā Despite Benjaminās protestations, the pair and their illustrious guests are brought down by the challenges of operational excellence in Government. Ed Straw, former PwC partner, think tank and national relationship counselling organisation board member, and author of Stand…
XONITEK-US and XONITEK-UK recently hosted an Operational Excellence Summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Ā If you have ever been to Amsterdam, you will know there are distinct cultural differences which are quite obvious if you are from New York ā even from a pre-Giuliani New York. From each place I visit, Iāve always liked to acquire…
āWhy Isn’t Government Lean?ā; LMJ Board Member and XONITEKās Chairman, Joseph Paris, weighs in on the role of lean in government. Published in Lean Management Journal in the May/June 2014 issue. Download PDF
In a global marketplace, companies have a primal motivation for continually improving the value-proposition of their offering.Ā They have to outpace the competition and offer more and more, for less and less, otherwise risk losing the customer.Ā To meet these demands of the customer requires that companies constantly seek to increase the velocity of throughput…
āYou need what?!ā ā¦ āIt will take how long?!ā I have uttered these two questions more than any others during my move to Frankfurt, Germany. It seems that everything has involved a considerable process āa rather slow and convoluted process at that. More often than not, the experience has been frustrating, comical, and largely absurd….
