In a recent tweet from @Kevin_Meyer he expanded on a comment that he left on a Lean Blog about ISO vs Std Work . His tweet said, What I forgot to mention is that the job breakdown aspect of TWI became our engine of kaizen. A little different than the norm. I intended to respond Read More …
Lean Marketing House (More Info): A starting point for creating true iterative marketing cycles based on not only Lean principles but more importantly Customer Value. Recommended 1st reading of series. Marketing with PDCA (More Info): Targeting what your Customer Values at each stage of the cycle will increase your ability to deliver quicker, more accurately Read More …
In a recent blog post, Sales and Service Planning with PDCA, I discussed the most basic part of the Sales and Service Cycle, the conversation with the customer. People may struggle viewing this from a market versus a customer perception. Or, they may see how this applies to a B2C relationship but wonder how to Read More …
Dave Gray of The Dachis Group and author of a recent book,The Connected Company works with the world’s leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies. His previous book, Gamestorming, sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into 16 languages. This video is an hour long but discusses much of the content in Read More …
In the podcast, We don’t use a Transactional Contract for Marriage, Why for Projects?, with Alan Mossma of The Change Business we discussed The Promise Conversation Cycle. Alan had this to say about it. Think of a customer and a provider, or a potential provider. The customer makes a request to the potential provider. That Read More …
From Tina Seelig’s book inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity: Below is the fully functional Innovation Engine, showing how all the parts are braided together. The inside of the engine is intertwined with the outside; and the factors on the inside and outside mirror each other. All the parts of your Innovation Engine are inexorably Read More …