Managing Customer Value
Should you Manage your Organization with Agile Techniques? Steve Denning’s new book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010) was the topic of our discussion. Radical management is a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting Read More …
Claudio Perrone, aka Agile Sensei, is an independent Lean & Agile software development consultant, public speaker and dramatic storytelling journeyman. Currently based in Dublin (Ireland), he offers vital transformational leadership and management experience to help individuals and organizations achieve phenomenal improvements. His current work on Lean Enterprise Architecture is set to enable tighter strategy alignment Read More …
Who are your most influential people on a particular subject? I started thinking of this after interviewing Don Reinertsen Tuesday’s Podcast, on the subject of Flow. In my mind, the founding father on this subject was Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (notice in the middle of his last name the word ZEN). I can remember first reading his Read More …
Do you really expect a CEO to lead a Lean Transformation? Why should you even expect upper management to sign off on the transformation before you prove the value of it? Time and time again, I have always heard the failure of any transformation, Lean, Six Sigma or practically any methodology to be the fault Read More …
I have been impressed by Xerox’s adaption of Lean Six Sigma both internally and externally. Maybe more so by their use of the Lean Six Sigma methodology in the marketplace to create, differentiate and widen their value proposition. An example of this is the Xerox initiative of Swarming. Xerox leveraged the Agile Scrum process – Read More …
A follow up to the Quallaboration Podcast with Jim Benson is this you tube video of the same name. Jim did a lightning talk about a recent project. About Jim Benson: His company, Modus Cooperandi, helps organizations change through the application of Lean principles, Agile methodologies, and social media. He is also the developer of Read More …