Creativity, Give Me a 5 Year Old!

In a recent blog post, A Teaching Resource for Design Thinking, I discussed the seven principles of Dr. Charles Burnette’s IDeSiGN. It is Design Thinking course he created for children. He freely shares this information on his website idesignthinking.com. Dr. Burnette is my Tuesday podcast guest and I think you will find him entertaining and Read More …

Continuous Improvement Program for Sales and Marketing

The Lean Marketing Lab opened several months ago. It is an online community created to further the cause of bringing continuous improvement to sales and marketing. The foundational work is in Lean but you will find a flavor of Service Design and Design Thinking intertwined. Recently, I have moved the Marketing with Lean Series of Read More …

Standard Work as your Whirlwind–Manage it!

I am an advocate of Standard Work. My approach is that it encompasses so much of our time that we should become proficient at it  just to ensure we make other things possible. The amount of Standard Work that you have differs from organization to organization and from person to person but we all have Read More …

Future of Lean Transcription

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the noted experts in the Lean Community, Dan Jones. This is a transcription of our podcast, The Future of Lean with Dan Jones. We spent a fair amount of time discussing Lean outside the four walls of the enterprise and how Lean interacts with the customer. Daniel Read More …

Preview of Presentation at the LSS12 Conference

This is a preview of my presentation at the Lean software and Systems Conference in Boston, MA. The Lean Software and Systems Consortium is bringing three premiere events to one centralized location to facilitate the next wave of ideas in methods, process and organization for software & systems engineering development. Boston is the premiere place Read More …

My First PDCA for Sales and Marketing

The other day I wrote a blog post, The Starting Point for Lean Sales and Marketing that briefly described how I would start introducing Lean to Sales and Marketing. The A3 was buried in a link and it was suggested that I create a blog post since it has received a good deal of attention Read More …