I am going to devote the week of April 22nd on how to grow, or scale-up your small business. I will be scaling-up the entire week culminating in a webinar, The Lean Scale Up which will be followed by a period of Q & A on the afternoon of April 26th. Only registered participants will Read More …
When was the last time you had a discussion about designs with more than one blocking variable, such as a Latin Square Design? Or maybe, a midnight discussion on empirical modeling or factorial designs at two levels? Those were the days. Recent publications, spurred by Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup, are Lean UX: Applying Lean Read More …
When we set out to improve something we use some sort of process. Many of us use PDCA (Plan – Do – Check – Act) or a variation of it for incremental improvement. When we are looking at breakthrough improvement, you will find different schools of thoughts. My favorite is a variant of PDCA, which Read More …
The next crucial level of organizational effectiveness: Lean Service Design. I have the pleasure of introducing Sara Coene (@saracoene) through this guest blog post. Sara is a Lean Service and Process Consultant and co-founder of Storites. She helps companies develop creative ideas and concepts to adapt their processes, business models and services to the desires Read More …
When we look at a problem, we should devise the best set of methods that we know of to solve the problem. However, many of us are prisoners of our own tools. How does that happen? It is very simple. If we are a Lean, Six Sigma or even a Theory of Constraints practitioner, we Read More …
I was going to name this blog post, Why Toyota should visit Virginia Mason? However, since I have never been to Virginia Mason (a Leader in Lean Healthcare) or Toyota, it would be pure conjecture on my part. Instead, I decided to base my blog post on a discussion that I had with Dr. John Read More …