Leading with Lean thru Accounting

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast was a great overview of Lean Accounting Read More …

Are you managing your Marketing Queue effectively?

When I watch this video, I can only think how many times that I have done this! When you think of managing your queue, what causes a story, task or even a customer to get shuffled like this? The frustration occurs of course because there is little if any management of the queue. In a Read More …

Are you Fumbling thru your Value Stream

In a Value Stream Mapping Process, one of the metrics used is what is called percent complete and accurate. It is a way of measuring the quality of hand-offs inside the value stream. You get a sense of the rework or work not completed that is being transferred from one stage to the next. Six Read More …

Define your Business by Value Stream not Product

How do you identify your prospects? Many organization have a tendency to provide the solution without really spending time identifying the specific market that their solution fits. That is one of the ideas that have made Eric Reis’s Lean Startup movement so strong. He calls it the Pivot. Which in very basic terms: Creating a Read More …

The Perfect Storm has come together of Excess Capacity and Product Variety

Carol Ptak, a recent guest on my podcast said… A lot of people have focused on the fact that the Economic times right now are really bad. What a lot of people are missing is the fact that the world around us has fundamentally changed. A we see now across the world is that we Read More …

Managing your Value stream

I was having quite a discussion on Value Streams with Dr. Reidenbach founder of  Six Sigma Marketing Institute, and author of over 20 books on marketing and market research. In answer to a few of my thoughts he defined how a a Six Sigma Marketer looks at Managing Value Streams. His points are well taken Read More …