Innovating with Lean Six Sigma

The new book, Innovating Lean Six Sigma: A Strategic Guide to Deploying the World’s Most Effective Business Improvement Process, was the topic of discussion in this podcast. Kimberly Watson-Hemphill is the founder and CEO of Firefly Consulting, a globally known expert in the field of Innovation and Operational Excellence. She has led global Lean Six Sigma deployments in multiple Read More …

Using Process Innovation in Healthcare

Kimberly Watson-Hemphill, founder, and CEO of Firefly Consulting, is a globally known expert in the field of Innovation and Operational Excellence and is a coauthor of Fast Innovation. She has led global Lean Six Sigma deployments in multiple industries, including one that saved over one billion dollars. Her new book, Innovating Lean Six Sigma: A Strategic Read More …

Greatest Pain + Easiest to Measure

Disruptive Innovations: Greatest Pain + Easiest to Measure Yesterday’s podcast excerpt with Tim Sanders, ended this way, Joe, doesn’t that sound like sales? I mean, we have to solve a bunch of our little prospecting presentation closing problems just to get the right to solve the customer’s problem, and quality works exactly the same way. Read More …

Public Innovation: Cleveland Clinic Way

I asked Dr. Graham, the author of Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work this question: You talk about these practices, and I assume you believe they could be used by others in the medical field, that’s why you wrote the book, but what about outside the medical field? An excerpt from the Read More …

Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic

Thomas J. Graham, MD, was the Chief Innovation Officer of Cleveland Clinic and Vice Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery. A prolific inventor with nearly 50 worldwide patents and a serial entrepreneur, he is a renowned orthopaedic surgeon whose practice is the premier destination for the care of the professional athlete’s hand and wrist. He is regularly Read More …

Skills need for Cloud Base Architecture

Terry Mandin discusses how to integrate and select the best tools for the job.This allows customers to become comfortable with cloud-based technologies, often times starting with a hybrid cloud and on-premise architecture, then moving the full application to the cloud. Terr is the founder of  i2E Solution’s. i2E Solutions provides an on-site personalized approach for customer Read More …