Pioneering transformative scenario planner Adam Kahane visits the RSA to outline a powerful new methodology for dealing with some of the world’s most intractable challenges. I highly recommend two of Kahane’s books, Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future and Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities. Read More …
My roots are in the process methodologies of Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and a little Systems Thinking. I have built a fair share of auto-responders, workflows and 21-day programs. In fact, my first workflows were on a manufacturing floor long before that terminology became part of the inbound marketing lingo. I have found Read More …
Does Innovation have to be that tough? Picasso said, “Good artist copy, Great artist steal. What do you think? Austin Kleon’s talk Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a creative manifesto based on 10 things he wish he’d heard when he was starting out. Austin is a writer Read More …
Rob van Stekelenborg is the author of Dumontis blog and a recent article Pushing and Pulling in the Supply Chain. In the blog, Rob discussed Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP). A brief excerpt: The (customer order) decoupling point (CODP) or order penetration point is one of the most well-known logistical concepts. It indicates the inventory Read More …
What I like about the CAP Do process is that it starts by comparing the actual work or our standard. Without doing this often, we may change just for the sake of changing, not knowing the appropriate reasons for changing. Adding C. Otto Scharmer’s work that he captured in the book, Theory U: Leading from the Read More …
Lean is considered by many as a product dominant thinking methodology. Lean was based primarily on the Toyota Production Process, which was an avid follower of Dr. Deming. Lean became more problem/solution orientated and another outgrowth of Dr. Deming, Systems Thinking, moved more to the Peter Senge approach illustrated in The Fifth Discipline. A crude Read More …