Could your Six Sigma Storyboard Compete?

A Six Sigma Storyboard provides a quick, visual summary of a team’s work. They are very well suited as presentation materials to highlight the work of the project, the improvements made and for executive overviews.  I think Six Sigma Storyboard presenters should take it up a notch. A DMAIC presentation can have a little Jazz Read More …

Lean, Six Sigma, Agile Consultants become a Recognized Expert

For the next Marketing your Black Belt Program, I am offering a special opportunity. The program is actually designed for Professional Service Consultants that work in a technical field such as Lean, Agile or Six Sigma. It is well suited for the one-person or small consulting company of less than 10 people. This 28-day program Read More …

How Lean, Six Sigma and Agile all work under the same umbrella at Xerox

This is a transcription of the podcast, Adding Customer Value in Development at Xerox that featured Patrick Waara talking about Xerox’s use of Agile techniques. Pat has been with Xerox for nearly 25 years teaching Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile techniques to Xerox’s software development community improving their software development capability. Our conversation originally was Read More …

Improving Lean Six Sigma Initiatives

This is a transcription of a podcast, Lessons from Escaping the Improvement Trap that I had with Michael Bremer co-author of Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes. Michael was responsible for creating a global based continuous improvement process for a conglomerate that owned more than 400 separate profit centers. This Read More …

Lean Marketing House ebook

Lean Marketing is the Future of Marketing Released as an ebook, Lean Marketing House is now available on the website. “When you first hear the terms Lean and Value Stream most of our minds think about manufacturing processes and waste. Putting the words marketing behind both of them is neither creative nor effective. But the Read More …