Is Differentiation Business Survival

Roy Osing of Brilliance for Business is an experienced Business and Marketing Consultant and the former Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President for TELUS, Canada’s second largest Telecommunications provider. He is also the author of the book Be Different or Be Dead, Your Business Survival Guide‘. This is a transcription of our podcast and Read More …

A Hidden Asset of a Kaizen Event

I have been fortunate to have a slew of well qualified individuals on my podcast that have discussed Kaizen and Kaizen Events. Karen Martin of KS Martin & Associates was one of them and offered this definition of who should attend a Kaizen Event (You can listen to part 2 of 3 of the Karen Read More …

Marketing is about Content and Circulation not Cute and Clever

The overall concept of Value Stream Marketing is that you must continuously add value and create value in your marketing for your customer. For most of us, it is no longer an issue of cute and clever it is an issue of content and circulation. It goes hand and hand with the transition from Outbound Read More …

We sometimes call it TALENT!

One of the things that most successful organizations have are highly skilled people in their workforce. In fact, the really good companies have so many that many of them leave and start their own businesses.  So did you ever stop and think how the other guy was doing that? Sure, they pay them more, however, Read More …

Lean Enterprise and Thedacare team together to hold Strategy Deployment Virtual Event

Join John Toussaint, M.D., CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, in a discussion on Strategy Deployment (also known as Hoshin Kanri or Policy Deployment). This event is presented by Healthcare Value Leaders, a partnership of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center.   It’s a “virtual gemba” visit to ThedaCare – a Read More …

Holding successful Kaizen Events (1 of 3)

This weeks Business901 podcast, featured Karen Martin the co-author of  The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service and Technical Environments. Karen shared so much new information that I have split the podcast in 3 parts of 20 minutes each. These podcasts are a wealth of information on Kaizen Events and a great Read More …