XONITEK-US and XONITEK-UK recently hosted an Operational Excellence Summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 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 – even from a pre-Giuliani New York. Continue reading
One of the many honors in my career as serial entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker has been my involvement as a keynote speaker at several national and international Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, a global competition that fuels and celebrates innovative business thinking. The annual awards were started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1986 and have now been run in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. Continue reading
Awareness of risk can lead to unforeseen risk behaviors based on knowledge that is sufficiently convincing to lead to false positives.
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
― attributed to Aristotle
Introduction
Knowledge is an opening door to understanding risk; the risk of knowledge is knowing how much you do not know. Unfortunately we have a very limited understanding of where risk is or where risk is going to materialize. Here is a small excerpt from “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read. The reason for this example is that we all use or have used pencils in our lifetimes. The pencil is a simple implement, right? Continue reading
Failure to continuously improve processes across the enterprise faster than competitors creates insidious enterprise threatening risk. Not dramatic. It might just be death by 1,000 small cuts. Continue reading