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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – June 2018

  Issue: 2018-06 June 2018 Founder’s Corner Eliminating Waste – Scheduling by Joseph Paris   If you ever find yourself saying; “There must be a better way”, I can guarantee you that there is.  All we...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – July 2018

Issue: 2018-07 July 2018   Dog Days of Summer The origin of the phrase, “the dog days of summer”, actually has nothing to do with the notion that dogs (and most people) are really lazy when it’s...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – August 2018

Issue: 2018-08 August 2018   Message from our Founder The origins of the summer holiday break are often believed to be rooted in agriculture.  It is widely believed that the school calendar follows the...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – September 2018

Issue: 2018-09 September 2018     Message from the Founder The days are getting shorter and the air is more crisp.  For me, it’s the time of year when my energy level increases for I am not a fan of...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – October 2018

Issue: 2018-11 October 2018     Message from the Founder “For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!” -William Shakespeare It is that time of year.  The trees have lost their leaves in a blaze...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – November 2018

Issue: 2018-11 November 2018         Message from the Founder   “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov  You go to work and it’s dark.  You come home...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2018

A Year in Review December 2018     Message from the Founder As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2019

January 2019         Monthly Musing   By now, most of us have made and broken our “New Year’s Resolutions”.  But I recently came across the idea of a “dream-map” which might prove to be more useful....

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2019

February 2019 Monthly Musing February is the nastiest month of the year.  The warmth of the holidays and joyous gatherings with friends and family are gone – all that is left as evidence that they...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2019

March 2019 Monthly Musing   Why do we assume more words, and a more complex vocabulary is better?  Why should we write a 500-word essay when 150-words (or fewer) will get the same information across?...

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2018-February: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

  Issue: 2018-02 February 2018 Founder’s Corner Lean Six Sigma – Reality or Myth? by Joseph Paris “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the...

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2018-March: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

  Issue: 2018-03 March 2018 Founder’s Corner Who has the “Old Maid”? by Joseph Paris I was speaking with a friend who is the Chief Operating Officer of a multi-national chemical processing company a...

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2018-August: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

      Issue: 2018-04 April 2018 Founder’s Corner Leveraging Technology in Pharma by Joseph Paris I am not easily impressed by technology.  In fact, I am often a contrarian and don’t easily buy into the...

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2018-May: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

      Issue: 2018-04 April 2018 Founder’s Corner Leveraging Technology in Pharma by Joseph Paris I am not easily impressed by technology.  In fact, I am often a contrarian and don’t easily buy into the...

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2019-April: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

April 2019 Monthly Musing It’s that time of year again – golf season.  I play golf, I don’t work golf.  There is nothing more satisfying than hitting the ball well.  I know, because it happens so...

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2019-May: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

May 2019 Monthly Musing Whether high school or college, students around the world are graduating.  Some will go on to further their education, some will enter the job market – many for the first time....

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2019-June: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

June 2019 Monthly Musing   If you believe that “time is the enemy of the 21st Century company”, then meetings are the guerilla fighters sent as saboteurs.  Most meetings are an exercise in mental...

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2019-July: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

July 2019 Monthly Musing   I have been very fortunate that I have had several formal mentors in my life.  They never told me what to do, rather offer guidance based on their knowledge and the wisdom...

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2019-August: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

August 2019 Monthly Musing We are in the “Dog Days of Summer”, the period between early July and early September.  The origin of the phrase is from the heliacal rising of Sirius, also known as the Dog...

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2019-September: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

September 2019 Monthly Musing I have recently come across several missives that place various management methodologies on an unassailable pedestal – elevated to near religious standing complete with...

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2019-October: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people is because they are fixated on the perfect.  They are terrified of what...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – November 2019

November 2019 Monthly Musing Someone asked, “What is your ‘Superpower’?”  I told them that I am able to take a complex situation and distill it down to its major elements, prioritize the efforts...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2019

December 2019 Monthly Musing   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”  – T. S. Eliot             Founder’s Corner...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2020

January, 2020 Monthly Musing “Press on! For in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! While yet you may.“ Nathaniel Parker Willis   Founder’s Corner Leaving a Positive and Indelible Mark...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2020

February, 2020 Monthly Musing     “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life,  ourselves, and the world around us.”   – Socrates...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2020

March, 2020 Monthly Musing       “Do what you can, with what you got, from where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt “Readiness is not about when things go right, but what you do when things go wrong.” –...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – April 2020

Helping companies to become high-performance organizations       Operational Excellence By DesignSM   April 2020     Monthly Musing   “Do what you can, with what you got, from where you are.” – Teddy...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – May 2020

Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM May 2020 Monthly Musing “In the Legion, you march or you die” – Unofficial Motto of the French Foreign...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – June 2020

Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM June 2020 ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind...

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Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – July 2020

Helping companies to become high-performance organizations Operational Excellence By Design SM July 2020 ‌ ‌ ‌ Monthly Musing The phrase, “The Dog Days of Summer” has its origin from the Greeks and...

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