July 02, 2020

Joseph Paris - State of Readiness for Space Companies - Cold Star Project S02E47

55 minutes

Joseph Paris of Xonitek and founder of the Operational Excellence Society is on the Cold Star Project to discuss OpEx and his book State of Readiness. With host Jason Kanigan, JP explores:

What OpEx means to him, and it's not Lean Six Sigma, TQM or TPS

The definition of "State of Readiness" and its implications for industry

How his strategic view of Operational Excellence came about, and what Strategic OpEx looks like

Whether Joseph believes a change agent with "no past" with the organization they're working on is essential to produce good results

How commonly opinions are masquerading as "facts" within organizations, leading to groupthink

What happens when senior management stop being involved with OpEx improvements

The notion and value of "packaging ideas for delivery" to communicate with stakeholders who may not understand operational excellence terminology

and more.

Xonitek website: https://xonitek.com/

Operational Excellence Society website: https://opexsociety.org/

(valuable articles here)

[Disclaimer: since this interview was recorded, Cold Star Technologies has become a Bronze level sponsor of the Operational Excellence Society, and the founder Jason Kanigan is now on its Board of Advisors. This was not the case when we recorded our discussion here, and there is often a long gap between recording and release dates. In this case, the recording was done on March 17, 2020 and released July 2, 2020. This interview is not intended to be an advertisement and was done in an independent spirit, with no view on how the future would turn out.]

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