Last week, I had a chance to attend Lean Frontiers’ workshop on The Role of Leadership in Creating a Sustainable Lean Culture. The course demonstrated the role of leadership in connecting and simultaneously developing the “Product” and the “People” Value Streams in an organization. In a lean implementation this really sets the foundation for a Read More …
Lean technology has now evolved from the manufacturing floor to the whole enterprise. Many companies have found real value in applying the fundamental concepts of Lean throughout the organization. The lean concepts of Kaizen, PDCA and the tools such as Pareto Charts, 5 Why’s and even Poka Yoke are commonplace. As a result of discussing Read More …
Lean Sales and Marketing is driven by several different factors with the one explained in this video being the most important. If you want to see what is at the core, watch this video. Related Information: Lean Marketing Creates Knowledge for the Customer The Pull in Lean Marketing The 7 step Lean Process of Marketing Read More …
Is Lean anything more than a Hypothesis? Dr Jim Womack: “The life of lean is experiments. All authority for any sensei flows from experiments on the gemba [the place where work takes place], not from dogmatic interpretations of sacred texts or the few degrees of separation from the founders of the movement. In short, lean Read More …
This is a transcription of the podcast, Continuously improving thru PDCAthat I had with Dean Ziegler of the Systems2win Company. Systems2win provides a standardized set of easy-to-use Excel templates for business process improvement with surprisingly inexpensive self-paced online training and eye-popping flexibility to personalize your templates to fit your needs to dramatically improve the speed, Read More …
These questions may get answered for you when you listen to this podcast. Do you think Lean can be applied to Sales and Marketing? Do you think Sales and Marketing departments resist becoming Lean? How important is Lean to Sales and Marketing? Or, how important is Sales and Marketing to Lean? Download/Listen to Podcast MP3 Read More …