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Performance Programs: Are You Prescribing Success? By Ed Gibson
May 2012

Describes the chronic problem with business process change initiatives. it asks "how do we configure process to achieve business results?" The answer will surprise you. This is a look at Systems Theory and the modern practice of Business Process Management.

Is Plant Management A Noble Endeavor?
Very few jobs have such grave responsibility. While maintaining energy supplies for a thirsty world, the plant manager wages a constant war to keep his workers safe...

Is Our Industry Culture The Problem?
The answer to this important question should not be about targeting managers as convenient scapegoats, who are the most available culprits when industrial accidents occur...

Is All This Paper Necessary?
Our industrial lives are cluttered with mounds of paper. When we try to reduce the paper, we make it electronic and produce systems that, it seems, simply move the paper to cyberspace. It was not too long ago that we didn not need all this paper...