#174 – OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE MATURITY MODEL – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250I have met countless Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence professionals over the course of my career.  And, in turn, I have become acquainted with their roles and efforts in regards to driving value to their organizations.  Oftentimes, these professionals, although possessing great passion for, and pride in, the value they drive to their companies, express their frustrations at the lack of proper support from their company in their efforts. Continue reading →

#174 – TIME COMPRESSION ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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ABC FredThe easiest ALT is one that you operate an item more often then operated by the customer. Removing spans of time the item is not being bent, moved, heated, etc allows you to use time compression.

For example, a home kitchen toaster may be used for a few cycles during breakfast time in your home. In the lab, we can avoid having to wait the day of idle time and just make toast more often than just at breakfast to accelerate the operation of a toaster. Continue reading →

#174 – MISUNDERSTANDING INNOVATION – GREG CARROLL

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team-carroll-150x150Excuse me, but this is a bit like 3 high street bankers sitting around discussing the plight of the homeless.   Very few of these self-appointed experts have ever started a business let alone been directly responsible for innovation in the marketplace.

After being in the computer software business for over 3 decades I have been directly involved in the most innovative period mankind has seen.  From the introduction of “mini” computers to the “cloud” to IoT (the Internet of Things), technical change has been a staple of the industry.  But from text files to relational databases to big data, the evolution of information as a tool has been the backbone of innovation in the aptly named “information revolution”.  Continue reading →

#174 – SELECTING BOARD OF DIRECTORS – JIGNESH PADIA

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Picture1The Board of Directors are vital for any organization’s good governance. Governance determines how an organization is centered and where it stands. “The Boards of Directors are a group of individuals within an organization that are either elected or appointed as representatives of Shareholders or Owners to establish Corporate Governance and enterprise risk management policies”. (Source: ERMGovernance.com) It is given that for an organization to be successful, it should have a Board of Directors (BOD) with a broad mix of skills to oversee the wide range of issues that may arise. Continue reading →

#174 – THE BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP CONFLICT – GARY HINKLE

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02WEBIt’s ridiculous if you think about it – businesses invest billions of dollars per year on leadership development, yet we continue to have a shortage of true leaders in business. Not every business suffers from this shortage, but I know that within most organizations involved in technology development and manufacturing there are major leadership voids in the management ranks. Continue reading →