Constant Feedback makes for Continuous Work Flow

Next week my podcast is on the subject of Quallaboration which is the relationship between Quality and Collaboration. Jim Benson, the person behind Personal Kanban was my guest and this is an excerpt from the upcoming podcast; Joe: Talking about Quallaboration, I relate it somewhat to the Pair Programming that takes place in software development. Read More …

QVC of Marketing Flow

QVC is the leader in multi-channel retailing — a televised shopping service that broadcasts live retail programming 24 hours a day. It’s a vast virtual shopping center, offering a wide variety of products including jewelry, apparel, electronics, home furnishings, and beauty. They understand marketing flow. I did a series of blog post this week on Read More …

Linking the 4Ps to Lean Marketing

This week I was challenged that I had spent little time creating the linkage between Lean Marketing or the Value Steam Marketing concepts and the classic 4 P’s. The reason why is that I believe marketing has changed from the 4 P’s to a demand driven or pull type of marketing that is fundamentally based Read More …

What you can Learn from the Military on Cadence

If you have not been part of it you may not appreciate the military term of cadence. I spent 3 years in the 82nd Airborne running 2 miles a day to the sound of a voice similar to this.. 30 years later, I can still repeat most of these cadences. It forever produced a rhythmic Read More …

Are you managing your Marketing Queue effectively?

When I watch this video, I can only think how many times that I have done this! When you think of managing your queue, what causes a story, task or even a customer to get shuffled like this? The frustration occurs of course because there is little if any management of the queue. In a Read More …

Are you Fumbling thru your Value Stream

In a Value Stream Mapping Process, one of the metrics used is what is called percent complete and accurate. It is a way of measuring the quality of hand-offs inside the value stream. You get a sense of the rework or work not completed that is being transferred from one stage to the next. Six Read More …