Value Stream thru Accountancy

In this eBook, we discussed how accountants need to become an integral part  of the other departments. No longer can accountants only relay past financial data. They need to participate in the Value Streams with real time numbers which will enable other departments to make quicker and more accurate decisions. Lean Accountants are simply spending Read More …

Bridge Between Six Sigma & Marketing

In my journey over the past few years to bring a Continuous Improvement philosophy to marketing, I have primarily focused on Lean and identifying the individual Value Streams though segmentation. Lean was a much easier methodology to implement and utilize. As I continued with a customer, I found the Six Sigma toolbox provided me a Read More …

Applying Six Sigma to become Best In Market

My podcast with Dr. Reidenbach was about achieving Best in Market Status. He has outlined this strategy in the book Best in Market where he details a process for assessing how organizations targeted product/markets define value and how this information can be delivered to key operational and strategic areas of their business. The Best in Read More …

The Rise of the Lean Machine Storybook

Move over Steve Jobs! Check out this presentation created by Claudio Perrone (a.k.a. Agile Sensei). He is an independent consultant based in Dublin, Ireland, committed to help organizations achieve phenomenal improvements — fast. He is well known for his experience and focus on transformational leadership, software architecture, and Lean-Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Read More …

3 ways the brain creates meaning

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/wPFA8n7goio” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”500″ grow=”yes”] Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, Read More …

A Look at Innovation, a Different Angle

This is one of the few books that I not only listened to it, but afterwards purchased the hard copy.Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others is simply a good book. The author of Borrowing Brilliance, David Kord Murray, has an impressive résumé. Not only is he Read More …