Collaboration thru the Eyes of Edison

Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life.  Sarah spent the first 15 years of her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with Global 500 firms including Read More …

Applying Lean Thinking to the Food Industry

Preston Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. Blevins has authored more than fifty conference white papers and magazine articles. Topics covered in these publications include Advanced Master Scheduling (and S&OP), complex manufacturing (ET0), service Read More …

Kanban, Kotter & Lean Startup

I just purchased The Lean Change Method by @thomasjeffrey #leanchange is the suggested tweet for this book. Help Jeff Anderson spread the word about this book on Twitter! Managing Agile Organizational Transformation: Learn how to manage agile adoption initiatives using the Lean Change method. The Lean Change method extends the Kotter change management lifecycle with Read More …

SALES CAP-Do Canvas or Maybe an A3

SALES PDCA is the framework I use for the process that takes place in the customer sales and marketing cycle. It is a standard PDCA cycle except the SALES part of the framework is where the sales team gets its directions and coaching from the team coordinator and value stream manager. Within the actual PDCA Read More …

I am Paid to Create (Ready, Aim, Smile)

Barry A. Berkus, A.I.A., UCSB and USC alumnus, is the founder and President of B3 Architects and Berkus Design Studio. He has remained on the forefront of design in the US and abroad for over forty-five years. His offices have spanned across the globe, in locations such as Malaysia, Japan and Australia, and have received Read More …

Engine of Employee Engagement

Eric Michrowski is a globally recognized leader in combining Human Performance, Operational Excellence and Process Improvement to drive Business Transformations that achieve substantial shifts in Customer Experience, Operational Reliability, Employee Engagement and Financial Performance.   Combining elements of Organizational Development and Change Management, his approach is anchored in over 15 years of hands-on experience in a Read More …