Discussion with the Founder of Kanbanize

Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize, thinks that you can better use out of your Kanban Software. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used for product development and not just change management activities. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean / Kanban outside IT. Read More …

Using Visual Thinking in Business

Willemien Brand has turned her passion for drawing and design into her life’s work. She graduated with distinction from the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands and enjoyed an award-winning career as an industrial designer with ATAG Keukentechniek before setting up the successful design studios Buro BRAND and BRAND Business. To be able to Read More …

Can you attend Lean Leadership Week?

Lean Leadership Week starts with the 2-day Lean People Development Summit and ends with the 2-day Lean Accounting & Management Summit. Between the 2 events is a unique offering of workshops applicable to both sets of attendees. Join executives and their teams from around the globe and explore best practices as it relates to developing Read More …

Is it the Same Game: Employee vs Customer Big Data

Recently, I have been working on a research and marketing project for an upcoming summit, Lean People Development. It was formally known as Lean HR. As a result, I have been brushing the dust off a few of my exploits into Talent Acquisition, Training, Onboarding and other HR practices. It is quite amazing the areas Read More …

Building Synergy in a Lean Transformation thru HR

Jamie Andrus of the Shingo Institute will participate in two unique presentations in partnership with Lean Frontiers, Inc. Both sessions are titled “HR and Continuous Improvement: Building Synergy in Lean Transformation” and will first be delivered as a webinar on July 11, 2017 from 1:30-2:00PM EDT. Her second presentation comes as a more in-depth Keynote Read More …

Is Lean, HR’s path to the Leadership Table?

We are in the age of flatter organization structure coupled with cross-discipline teams making it more complex to get things done. This difficulty has led to a newer style leadership that we may call influential leadership. Which could be simply stated, as the ability to influence others in the absence of positional power. I did Read More …