Smart Mob Organizing

Liz Guthridge is a results-oriented, award-winning change leadership coach and consultant with extensive communication experience. She specializes in supporting department leaders of organizations who are introducing complex new initiatives or making other changes that may confuse, disrupt or upset internal stakeholders. Connect Consulting is an independent and specialized management-consulting firm focused on clear and credible Read More …

Difference between DMAIC and PDCA

Dr. Liker is a nationally recognized authority on lean manufacturing methods and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is an expert on U.S. and Japanese differences in manufacturing and supply chain management, and co-founded the Japan Technology Management Program at UM. He had a discussion with me on PDCA Read More …

The Systems and Processes of Decision Management

Decision Management Solutions specializes in helping organizations build decision-centric, action-oriented systems and processes using an approach of decision management, business rules and advanced analytic technologies. Their collaborative decision modeling software, Decisions First Modeler, is a cornerstone for developing requirements for these next generation systems and processes. One of the principals and author of Decision Management Read More …

How would you use Decision-Modeling?

James Taylor, one of the leading experts in decision management, is my guest tomorrow on the Business901 Podcast. Not sure, I could summarize the podcast any better than James did in this excerpt: James Taylor: One of the things we’ve been excited about with decision modeling is the breadth of use cases for it. We Read More …

Learn To Do Then Learn To Teach

Dr. Liker is a nationally recognized authority on lean manufacturing methods and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. I asked him, “It’s amazing how intuitive a good coach can be in what you’re doing. I relate it a lot to sports, like you were talking about the golf head early, Read More …

Can Lean Be Easily Applied To Sales?

I thought I would receive a different answer when I asked Jim Womack, “Well, we’re talking about customer all the time and we talk about feedback and the value for the, but the closest one to the customer in most organizations is the sales and marketing process and that seems to be the one process Read More …