Building Positive Business Improvement

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  has just finished his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. Using various strength-based approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, David has created a radically different way to approach Lean Six Sigma. He calls this method Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma. David is a Master Black Belt formerly with Read More …

EcoSystem = Customers Interacting with VP

When we start thinking of value in the Service Dominant Logic (SD-Logic) mindset, it is much easier to understand how successful products and services are now being developed. They are developed in a mindset of an ecosystem. Apple’s demand has not increased because of more features and benefits. It has increased because of more ways Read More …

Reproduction is not about Balance

The EcoSphere and “Original Ecosphere” are trademark names for sealed blown-glass miniature aquaria produced by Ecosphere Associates, Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, United States. The Original EcoSphere is the world’s first totally enclosed ecosystem – a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass. You can purchase one and read the full description EcoSphere Closed Read More …

The Problem with Correct Answers

A correct answer kills the creativity. See what happens when third grade students think there is a correct answer. From Elad Segev: I would be thankful if other teachers from other Countries will repeat this exercise and send me the results, I will publish these results in YouTube Elad1segev@gmail.com I found this video via tweet Read More …

Increase your Innovation Capacity: Manage your Sphere of Influence

In an Outcome-Based mapping approach, we do not try to reach out immediately to the beneficiaries or all the people/organizations that may have an interest in our product or service. We reach out to people/organizations that we can influence. This is quite different from the Lean StartupTM approach where we are trying to find product/market Read More …

The Maker Movement

TechShop, a do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio with six locations open and hundreds more planned over the next decade, is the largest public access tools and computer enabled manufacturing platform in the world.  Mark Hatch recently authored The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers to capture Read More …