Next week’s Business901 podcast guest is Ken Rolfes of KDR Associates. Ken has spent more than 30 years in public and private companies that design, manufacture, and market technically based products for the medical device, industrial product and computer industries. He has extensive Lean enterprise experience in general management, new product development, cost management systems, Read More …
Robin Lawton has been a long time favorite of mine. His book, Creating a Customer-Centered Culture: Leadership in Quality, Innovation, and Speed offers some valuable insights even though it was written 20-years ago. I still use it on a regular basis and find it valuable in assisting people to more service centered thinking. The podcast Read More …
Faster, Better, Cheaper seems to be a mantra for Lean people. I decided to join the crowd for once and create a Lean Marketing plan with those thoughts in mind. It is simple enough and more effective than you may think. Give it a try!
Natalie Sayer, the owner of I-Emerge, an Arizona-based global consultancy, and co-author of Lean For Dummies. Natalie began studying and applying Lean in the automotive industry, in the US and Mexico, before it was formally known as Lean. She has trained, coached, mentored and rolled up her sleeves to implement Lean in organizations ranging from Read More …
Looking for the next silver bullet to propel your sales effort to the next level? Do you want to post a video series like Will It Blend? by Blendtec and have your efforts go viral? Maybe you are only looking for a few buzzwords that will stay on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Better yet, Read More …
When we set out to improve something we use some sort of process. Many of us use PDCA (Plan – Do – Check – Act) or a variation of it for incremental improvement. When we are looking at breakthrough improvement, you will find different schools of thoughts. My favorite is a variant of PDCA, which Read More …