Reusable Knowledge – The Focus of Lean Product Development

Rottie Consulting LLC was founded in April 2013 with the intent to provide consulting services to a variety of industries specializing in IT Project Management & Delivery, Technology Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Leadership Coaching, and International (South American) Relations. My podcast guest tomorrow is the founder of Rottie, Gabriela (Gabi) Vandermark. An excerpt from the Read More …

Leadership with No Leader

I asked Dr. Reldan”Relly” Nadler, a leading psychologist and Executive Coach a question about teamwork and when there is not a clear cut leader within the team. Dr. Relly, focuses on developing and providing cutting edge Emotional Intelligence tools, and strategies for CEO’s, Executives, leaders, managers and their organizations and teams.  His book, Leading with Emotional Read More …

Can Training Within Industry be used for Introducing Lean?

The System Director of Performance Improvement at Baptist Memorial Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, Skip Steward, is my guest this week for the first of a two-part podcast. Skip has a variety of accomplishments, qualifications and certifications in the quality improvement field that includes being a Shingo Examiner for the Shingo Institute, Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Read More …

Lean, Middle Managers, Toyota Kata

My blog through the years has discussed the interaction Middle Management needs to have in a Lean Transformation. I have always thought the key to a Lean Journey or Transformation resided in Middle Management, Can Lean be driven by Middle Management?  It was also discussed in this blog, If less than 1% of companies are Read More …

Can Arguments Help in Collaboration?

Joe:   Can argument mapping help in collaboration? Timo:   Yes, a lot of us are working — as teacher’s we are working with groups of students, and they built together some argument around an issue. Argument mapping does when you present it with a beamer on a screen or something like that, it makes it possible Read More …

Learn To Do Then Learn To Teach

Dr. Liker is a nationally recognized authority on lean manufacturing methods and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. I asked him, “It’s amazing how intuitive a good coach can be in what you’re doing. I relate it a lot to sports, like you were talking about the golf head early, Read More …