Mike Osterling, the President and Principal Consultant at Osterling Consulting was my guest on the Business901 podcast and our discussion centered around A3 problem solving and A3 thinking. Mike is a long-term Lean Practitioner and an interesting thought on his initial comment in the podcast when I asked, What he has been doing since I Read More …
On the Business901 podcast, Software Quality Assurance Podcast with Murali Chemuturi, we discussed Software Quality Assurance and what Murali considers best practice. I found his position quite different from the Agile and Kanban Software people I typically interview. I think most people in the IT field will find it interesting. This is a transcription of Read More …
I had the pleasure interviewing James O. Coplein, author of the Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development for an upcoming Business901 podcast. I seem to learn so much from the software community and had picked up Jim’s book to help provide a framework for parts of the Lean Marketing House (Marketing with Lean). I was Read More …
Should you Manage your Organization with Agile Techniques? Steve Denning’s new book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010) was the topic of our discussion. Radical management is a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting Read More …
When most think of a marketing funnel or Marketing with PDCA, they tend to think of a stage by stage progression. I contend that the successful processes operate in a more spiral like progression. You would start with an identified product/market and some type of interaction from a prospect to identify them at the entry Read More …
The Deming Cycle or The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model is a proven framework for implementing continuous quality improvement. It originated in the 1920s with Walter A. Shewhart. These four steps provide the framework for continuous improvement. The PDCA cycle basically starts with a plan and ends with an action in accordance to the information learned during Read More …