Creating a Lean Scale Up Budget

The Budget is truly the Fuel for Growth When you view most budgets they are almost always cost-related with little identification for resources that clearly set aside for growth. How do companies stop being innovative? Why do companies stop growing? Many simply stop planning and budgeting for it. The budget is truly the fuel for Read More …

Using Lean as a Growth Strategy

If you are successful at implementing Lean, it is simply not Lean. It’s yours. I first studied TQM back in nineteen-eighties which served as my precursor for Lean. Along the way, I was primarily influenced by Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking. I always found my roots and practices best associated with Lean. Read More …

Customer Identification 6 Sigma Marketing

The first step in the 5 Cs of Driving Market Share is identifying specific products or markets that offer the organization its best options for growth. You will learn how to evaluate products and markets using metrics such as current market share, market growth rate and competitive intensity to assess the best targets for the Read More …

5Cs of Driving Market Share Program

Organizations need to change from a customer satisfaction focus to a customer value focus. The Five C’s of Driving Market Share serves as the template for this transaction. Turning the power of Six Sigma outward and focusing on growing market share will provide infinite number of value laden projects for the Six Sigma Black belts Read More …

Design Thinking CHAT

Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) has its origins in Lev Vygotsky’s pioneering work in the 1920s. More recently, education scholars have used CHAT to study learning behavior through the creation of activity systems analysis. When we view sales and marketing or even Lean  as a knowledge building exercise this thought process brings an alternative way Read More …

Lean 3P Design more Humanistic by Going Back to Nature

In the Lean Design we use a process that is called Lean 3P. One of the most contentious part of 3P is this idea of looking to nature, to try to find solutions to the problems you’re trying to solve. We begin by looking at all the value?adding steps. Then for each of those value?adding Read More …