Open Space Technology (OST) is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style retreats, symposium, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task—but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme. I have become quite intrigued by this method and was first introduced to the concept several years Read More …
The energy and creative generated in the Appreciative Inquiry process is shapes the interaction in a dynamic Open Space session where participants generate the agenda for a series of working sessions where concrete actions are identified. This process has been used with small groups to organizations with thousands of members. This is part 1 of Read More …
Ron Mascitelli, president of Technology Perspectives was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Lean Design interview with Ron Mascitelli. Ron is the author of five books, his most-recent publication, Mastering Lean Product Development: A Practical, Event-Driven Process for Maximizing Speed, Profits, and Quality. This is a transcription of the podcast. Ron is a Project Management Read More …
“We want people to go see for themselves and come up with something new and innovative and learn from someone else, see how that could be applied to their own industry.” – Bob Petruska Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting was my guest this week on the podcast. We discussed his new book, Gemba Walks Read More …
When people talk to me about demand, I get lost. Most of the time they focus on macroeconomics, governments, market identification, etc. But my struggle is that I have never seen a tax cut, training, better data, better methods create demand, just customers. Is that too simplistic? Many times we venture off in the world Read More …
Sales and Marketing in Lean. I have always had a tendency to write about Lean in Sales and Marketing. And, I have written a lot: Lean Marketing House (More Info): A starting point for creating true iterative marketing cycles based on not only Lean principles but more importantly Customer Value. Recommended 1st reading of series. Read More …