Bustamante on Agile Communities, 1 of 2

An activist in the Agile Communities, Alan Bustamante plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high-quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and delivery services to business of all Read More …

Every Manager should have a Philosophy

Examples of Aristotle and Plato at how you actually view the world. Is the world knowable and understandable and you can perform experiments to figure out what’s the right thing to do? Or, is it this strange amorphous thing that changes around? Those basic views and everyone has a philosophy. Those basic views shape how Read More …

Bryan Armentrout: The New Manager Mindset

Bryan Armentrout is a Corporate Entrepreneur and thought leader in the quality assurance/ risk management space. Bryan is the owner of The Food Leadership Group, a food safety and quality systems consulting firm. He has written a new book called The New Manager Mindset: How to Master the Four Secrets of Leadership that College Doesn’t Read More …

Process Excellence in Healthcare

This is a collection of Healthcare Podcasts Transcriptions that includes both Lean and Six Sigma. It also has transcriptions from Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic on Innovation. Process Excellence in Healthcare Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find interesting. For your own Read More …

Public Innovation: Cleveland Clinic Way

I asked Dr. Graham, the author of Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work this question: You talk about these practices, and I assume you believe they could be used by others in the medical field, that’s why you wrote the book, but what about outside the medical field? An excerpt from the Read More …

How does Organizational Agile Look

Every organization is Agile these days. You kind of eluded to it there before in our conversation. How has that affected your work or other parts of the organization are saying, we all need to have daily stand-ups. Are they taking the tools and maybe not some of that real Agile spirit? – Joe Dager Read More …