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#206 – MUST KNOW CAREER TIPS AND TRICKS (VS. DONE) – JOSEPH PARIS

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Screen Shot 2018-02-03 at 8.50.24 AMI have been an entrepreneur and in business – nonstop – since 1985.  And over the course of those 30-plus years, I have gained a lot of experience.  But as the saying goes; “Experience is the most difficult teacher, she gives the test first and teaches the lesson after.”  So I can say, with some degree of certainty, that I have made every mistake a business person could make.  Sometimes, I would repeat the mistake just to be certain. Continue reading →

#203 – LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY IN PHARMA – JOSEPH PARIS

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Screen Shot 2018-02-03 at 8.50.24 AMI am not easily impressed by technology.  In fact, I am often a contrarian and don’t easily buy into the hype of the “next great thing”.  It’s probably a combination of factors.

One being that I started my professional career during the 1980’s and 90’s – a period of time when there was a veritable explosion in new technology.  A period of time when technology titans such as Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and Oracle (to name just a few) were born.  A time when mainframes were giving way to distributed computing and the internet was coming of age. Continue reading →

#201 – WHO HAS THE ‘OLD MAID’ – JOSEPH PARIS

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Screen Shot 2018-02-03 at 8.50.24 AMI 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 – nothing new here. Continue reading →

#194 – THE RECESSION IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE RECESSION – JOSEPH PARIS

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Screen Shot 2018-02-03 at 8.50.24 AMThe competitive advantage for businesses in the 20th Century was centered around the efforts related to process excellence – making the processes throughout a business as efficient and as effective as possible. And this was accomplished using a variety of disciplines including (but not limited to) Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and so on. Continue reading →

#186 – INNOVATION VS. TRANSFORMATON – JOSEPH PARIS

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image001-2-300x300-250x250If you want your business to survive, you need to innovate.  If you want your business to have a chance of thriving, you need transformation.  Certainly, either innovation or transformation are no guarantees of success – but the lack of both almost certainly leads to doom.  Need proof?  Can you name one company or one industry (other than government) today that, when faced with a change in the marketplace, failed to innovate – and instead stayed with its traditions, and survived – not to mention, thrived?  If you think of one, let me know.  How about a company that faced a transformation in the marketplace – how did it fare over time? Continue reading →