State of Readiness: Operational Excellence as Precursor to Becoming a High-Performance Organization - Hardcover

Joseph F. Paris Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 162634311X ISBN 13: 9781626343115

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2017

Synopsis

Accelerated Strategy Development and Execution
The company of today has its supply chains and finances stretched further around the globe than ever before while simultaneously having increasing pressures to drive value across a complicated and fluid set of metrics and deliver innovations, products, and services more quickly and reliably. The competitive advantage belongs to the companies that can quicken their vision-building and strategy-execution efforts—the ones that can identify challenges more swiftly and accelerate their decision making so they are better able to formulate and deploy responses decisively yet with greater agility. To successfully accomplish this, companies will have to prioritize creating a culture of leadership that strengthens communication skills and emphasizes systems thinking by building capacity and capability that cuts across the business smokestacks and permeates the entire organization.

In State of Readiness, Joseph F. Paris Jr. shares over thirty years of international business and operations experience and guides C-suite executives and business-operations and -improvement specialists on a path toward operational excellence, the organizational capability and situational awareness that is attained as the enterprise reaches a state of alignment for pursuing its strategies. In doing so, create a corporate culture that is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance and the circumstances of those who work there—a precursor to becoming a high-performance organization.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph F. Paris Jr. is a thought leader on the subject of operational excellence, a prolific writer, and a sought-after speaker around the world. Although he is an expert in the more granular facets of the discipline, he places a special emphasis on the keystone for success: the engagement of people.

His vehicles for change and delivering the promises of operational excellence include the following:

• The XONITEK group of companies, a consultancy helping companies around the globe


• The Operational Excellence Society, a think tank serving the operational excellence ecosystem


• The Operational Excellence LinkedIn group

In addition, Paris serves on the editorial board of The Lean Management Journal, the board of the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department at the Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University, and the board of the Institute of Industrial Engineers' Process Industries Division. He is an active member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering and the Association for Corporate Growth.

Review

''Whether you're a C-Suite executive or an operations manager, State of Readiness is a great way to help determine if your company is ready to face the new business climate that lies ahead.''
--Robert J. Szczerba, senior fellow emeritus at Lockheed Martin

''This is next-level thinking. Joseph Paris has taken operational excellence to a new level, and leaders who are serious about competitive advantage need to do more than smart manufacturing; create a State of Readiness in your company.''
--Jonathan Taurman, director of global Lean/ops excellence at GE Healthcare

''Want your company to be a high achiever, nimble enough to handle new opportunities or threats? State of Readiness will help climb to the top.''
--Bob Summers, brigadier general (retired) in the US Air Force, former deputy director of operations of Air Force Space Command

''State of Readiness is a must-read for any serious continuous improvement professional involved in the deployment of operational excellence! Joseph Paris provides a template and roadmap for organizations to evolve beyond the traditional emphasis on processes to an emphasis on systems thinking.''
--Paul O'Brien, director of business excellence at eBay

''State of Readiness creates a path to understanding what is necessary to become a high-performance organization. You got the right things right, Mr. Paris. In the end, as Shakespeare put it, 'The readiness is all.'''
--Jonathan Escobar Marin, director and global head of Lean management at HARTMANN GROUP

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 162634311X
• ISBN 13: 9781626343115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400