Fact: Within any industry – be it hospitals, public accounting firms, manufacturing, governmental organizations or law firms — 20% of the organizations will be dramatically improving much more effectively than 80% of their competitors. What does the top 20% do differently than the rest in their respective industries? In The Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Read More …
This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, The Lean Thinker on Value Enhancement (Lean) with Adam Zak (@leanthinker), founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. Read More …
This is a transcription of a Business901 podcast, Xerox Operational Excellence Program that I had with Tricia Bhattacharya. She is currently a Worldwide Segment Marketing Manager for the Xerox Graphic Communications Business Group. In this role, she is responsible for developing marketing programs focused on in-plant environments. She also holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Read More …
Customer Value seems old hat and so un-marketing like in this day of Social Media, Analytics, Inbound-Outbound, Trending and Buzz. However, the successful companies are not necessarily writing about marketing they are doing it and relying on a simple term, Customer Value. As Christine says, These are not flash-in-the-pan companies. They are the likes of Read More …
Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing The Value Stream Map is a lean tool to analyze the value stream. Value Stream Mapping techniques involves mapping each step of a process looking for waste and on improving the total time from the beginning to the end of the entire stream. One of Read More …
The guest on the Business901 podcast was Adam Zak (@leanthinker), founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. During the podcast I was able to ask questions Read More …