Am I asking too much from a respected Lean Company?

Goods Dominant Thinking still resides in this Lean Manufacturer  I have addressed many Lean Manufacturers through the years about applying Lean to Sales and Marketing, and the truth is that it has been a dismal journey to say the least. The areas of software and services mixed with Lean Startup and Agile principles seem to Read More …

Making Complex Thinking More Organized

Timo ter Berg is the CEO of Critical Thinking, a leader in the development of software. They help people visualize and organize their thoughts combining innovative graphic display tools with the latest research on how to make complex thinking more organized and accessible. They host several products called Rationale and bCisive which can be found Read More …

Capturing Conversation with Mapping

In next weeks podcast, I discussed, Dialogue MappingTM with KC Burgess Yakemovic of Cognexus Group.  KC has over 25 years of experience capturing and using decision making rationale within both the corporate and small business environments. She worked with Jeff Conklin a (author of Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems) during his early Read More …

Structured Mind Mapping?

Dialogue MappingTM  is my topic this week and will lead into a podcast with KC Burgess Yakemovic of Cognexus Group. This excerpt is from next week’s Business901 podcast about applying Dialogue Mapping. Joe: It sounds like a structured mind map that I can go in and out very quickly. I can bounce between an overview Read More …

Demonstration of Dialogue Mapping

Dialogue MappingTM as applied to one of the greatest speeches ever made. Dialogue Mapping is a technique for facilitating contentious issues by showing meeting participants the logic of the conversation they are having. This version has some pauses in the audio so the viewer can follow the mapping process.Many thanks to Britton Rea and the Read More …

Lean Mapping Consists of More Than 1 Tool

I found Steven Borris use of Lean Mapping quite different in his book Strategic Lean Mapping. One that included Big Picture Map, Process Mapping, Capacity Mapping, Value-Stream Mapping, and closing with how to use this information for better problem solving and decision making. The tools within the maps are quite common for a Lean Practitioner. Read More …