Managing Customer Value
Mark Warren, of Tesla2 Inc. has decades years of experience working with Tier 1 and 2 suppliers to improve their manufacturing productivity and quality. He travels the world to learn and teach about Lean and most specifically TWI. He likes to concentrate on problem solving methodologies as applied to lean manufacturing, failure analysis, reliability improvements, Read More …
In last Friday’s blog post, Is Your Sales Team Prepared to Sell to a Team, I discussed a few of the barriers that I believe exists for Salespeople and their lack of training in selling to groups of decision makers. I have investigated several ways of approaching sales people and have tried a few myself Read More …
Dr. Jeff Soper is a seasoned executive, consultant, author, and coach who is a recognized expert in the fields of leadership development, performance improvement, and creativity and innovation. He expresses Problem-Solving leadership in different terms than most of us do. Related Podcast and Transcription: Getting to the Leadership Table Joe: Even in a Lean way Read More …
One of my most listened to podcast is with a relative unknown Agile guy named Eric Landes. In the Agile world, I expect he is well-known and has spoken at a few of the conferences I have attended. I was re-reading the transcript today after seeing how highly rated the original podcast was on my Read More …
We spend a lot of time discussing the inner working of our teams and breaking down silos between everyone. We will all admit that it requires work, and most of us will even say maybe some outside help or facilitation. When we start working with others, we might even if we are real progressive, invite Read More …
I have coached a variety of teams virtually and wondered how someone else did it. So I asked a could of questions. An excerpt from last week’s podcast, Managing Product Development . Joe: Much of a consultant’s role is relationship and trust building; when we do it virtually, that’s sometimes very difficult to do. How Read More …