Where Learning Becomes Doing: Purdue Foundry

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Purdue Foundry is a hub to transform innovators into entrepreneurs. It is a place that Purdue faculty, staff and students find fast, effective ways to move their ideas to the marketplace. The Foundry focuses Purdue’s vast resources to accelerate and improve advancement of Purdue ideas and innovations that are changing the world. My podcast guest Read More …

Brand Marketing with Mintz

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Laurel Mintz, CEO of Elevate My Brand has built a career that blends her deep personal passion for food, wine and lifestyle with considerable business acumen and legal expertise. Her love of food and wine began during her college years in Santa Barbara, pouring wines and producing events for Geisinger Winery. Laurel then moved east Read More …

Putting Job Instruction to Work

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As a System Director of Performance Improvement at Baptist Memorial Hospital,  Skip Steward (a TWI Job Instruction Certified Trainer), drew this handwritten  that shows his thoughts and process about using the Job Instruction method of Training Within Industry. Skip will also be presenting at the upcoming Training Within Industry Summit this May in Jacksonville,  Fl. Read More …

Developing the Customer Relationship with Lean

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In a past podcast, I asked a General Sales Manager of a global Fortune 300 chemical company of how they used Lean when a customer seemingly can find any product at any time for any price, and you can’t take the statements literally but there’s a little bit of truth in that. Have you seen Read More …

Architecture is about Visceral Emotions

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I  seldom post Ted Videos anymore to my blog but this video speaks to how the interaction between user and designer (this time an architect) in something as massive as a building has changed. A wonderful description that I hope you enjoy  as much as I did. An excerpt for the video: Because it doesn’t Read More …