Preston W. Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. During his second career, he has specialized in helping companies understand, acquire, implement, and maintain world-class business practices and systems using advanced information technology. Blevins has Read More …
Preston Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. Blevins has authored more than fifty conference white papers and magazine articles. Topics covered in these publications include Advanced Master Scheduling (and S&OP), complex manufacturing (ET0), service Read More …
Eric Michrowski is a globally recognized leader in combining Human Performance, Operational Excellence and Process Improvement to drive Business Transformations that achieve substantial shifts in Customer Experience, Operational Reliability, Employee Engagement and Financial Performance. Combining elements of Organizational Development and Change Management, his approach is anchored in over 15 years of hands-on experience in a Read More …
I interviewed Jeff Anderson the catalyst behind the Lean Change Method for next week’s Business901 podcast. More information is available about the Lean Change Method at http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/. Jeff leads the Deloitte Lean market offering, providing advisory, transformation, and change management services to software technology based organizations, helping them transform through the use of agile and Read More …
Kansei/Affective Engineering is essentially the human side of product development. We are attempting to take customer’s feelings and convert them into our design. It is very much aligned with User Experience Design but more often used in product development firms and engineering departments versus Design firms and Web applications. More background is provided about the Read More …
Why don’t we hear about the emotional engineering discipline of Kansei? Why is that? As Design Thinking and Service Design have moved to the forefront in many organizations, we seem to have forgotten about this method. It is so unfamiliar, that I feel a need to define it first: Kansei is a Japanese term with Read More …