Managing Customer Value
When introducing Lean Thinking many of us would start with the five core concepts of Lean depicted in the classic books, The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking by Womack and Jones. The basic thought process goes something like this: As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, and Read More …
Troy Tuttle, KCP, is the owner and a principal consultant at KanFlow. He is a practicing Agile software developer and Lean-Agile-Kanban coach to software teams, project managers and executives. He helps software professionals and teams improve through approaches that support better clarity, understanding, and continuous learning. Troy is the founder of the Kansas City Limited Read More …
Are Daily Stand-ups done at the wrong time of day? We could argue what the most important part of your day and many will say the beginning. I would venture to say that most people is their meditation or some sort of state of reflection, it happens the very first thing in the morning. Even Read More …
I just recently read the book Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal that described the transition of the command and control style of management to the more adaptive approach that I have found successful in working with teams. Though I read the Kindle version, the book Read More …
If someone was looking at starting a collaborative in any field, Healthcare, Manufacturing, could you give them a little of advice on where they might go or how they would start. -jd Dean Bliss: I wasn’t part of the beginning of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, so I can talk about the Lean Consortium a Read More …
Today’s businesses are increasingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. He says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit’s warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for “smart simplicity.” (Rule One: Understand what your colleagues actually do.). His book, Six Simple Rules: How Read More …