The Trumpet of Smarter Solutions

Forrest Breyfogle discusses his new book The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System.  and  the Integrated Enterprise Excellence. The IEE provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Transcription and PDF Download of Podcast Transcription and PDF Download of Podcast Related podcast: A Trumpet Read More …

Why it is Wrong to Blame Leadership?

How do leaders get organizations out of bad habits? How do they improve the culture? Negative thinking causes depression and anxiety in people and organizations. Positive thinking creates better habits and produces resiliency in people. Does it do the same in corporations? This thought caused me to wonder about our thinking around problem solving and Read More …

Building Positive Engagements

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  has just finished his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma  Using various strength-based approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, David has created a radically different way to approach Lean Six Sigma. He calls this method Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma. Transcription and PDF Download Transcription and PDF Download Related Podcast: Building Positive and Engaging Read More …

A Trumpet for Smarter Solutions

Forrest Breyfogle: is the CEO of Smarter Solutions. Forest has authored or co-authored over a dozen books. His most recent book is The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System. His five-book set, Integrated Enterprise Excellence provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Read More …

Are Outcomes and Impacts old news?

Is Outcome-Based Planning being passed by Design Thinking, Lean Startup(TM), and the other Innovation chatter that we see? This focus is certainly deserving and a necessary component in today’s marketplace. Where the strength of an Outcome approach takes place is in understanding your customers, markets and most of all the people that you influence. Outcome-Based Read More …