Walt Boyes' Blog

At lunch, I ran into several very familiar faces. This is a small incestuous business. Gary Anderson and I chatted (Sue Lynch hurt her ankle, and couldn't come up from Georgia for the meeting)after Gary gave Sue's talk for her. To show you how small the world is, my dad repped Gary's dad thirty years ago. The usual suspects from P+F and Maverick were here...I long-time-no-see'd … [Read more...] about This is a teeny tiny business…

Keynotes at the Yokogawa User Group Conference were Charlie Cutler, a member of the Process Automation Hall of Fame, and one of the fathers of Advanced Process Control, who gave a look into the future of APC; and Mark Peters, publisher of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, who gave a look into the future of the oil and energy business. Charlie volunteered to write an article on … [Read more...] about Keynoters get it right

Roger van Nuis showed a graph that showed Yokogawa's revenue growing hugely (outside of Japan.) Inside Japan, knowledgeable sources point out that Yokogawa's market share is about as big as it is going to get, and the only way out of the downward spiral of the Japanese economy is for them to become a true multinational. Van Nuis pointed out (again) that Yokogawa dominates the … [Read more...] about van Nuis and Yokogawa's corporate culture

Every company needs a champion for its vision. In Roger van Nuis, Yokogawa has theirs. In typical Japanese fashion, Yokogawa began a couple of years ago, working with a concept, rather than a product. It was the concept of Vigilance. Vigilance is both an integrated branding campaign and an expression of Yokogawa's purpose, who they are, and the core values that they operate … [Read more...] about Mr. Vigilant Plant

David Johnson, a career Yokogawa employee, was named earlier this year to the post of President and COO of Yokogawa Corporation of America, succeeding Shu Kaihori, who was being promoted back home to Japan. Johnson is the latest in a line of high quality American COOs that Yokogawa has used to produce a very high profile in the USA. Back in the early 1990s, for a magazine, … [Read more...] about Leadership is more than giving orders…