The Original Pizza Game at AME Jacksonville

Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting will be working his magic in his upcoming workshop at the 2014 Jacksonville AME Conference where you can participate and witness the hands-on Pizza Game. Learn the basics of value stream mapping (VSM) and create your own maps with metrics showing the potential benefits. You will gain practical Lean Read More …

7 Kata = The Next 7 Tools?

We have started a few discussions around the web and formed a Next 7 Tools community group to explore, create, and perfect the next generation of continuous improvement tools. I have offered a few suggestions one being in the blog post, Please Join Us in Evolving The Next Seven Tools. In this post I considered Read More …

TryStorming instead of BrainStorming?

Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting brings 24 years of experience helping a variety of customers including Health Care, Aerospace, Automotive, Food, Office and Service industries improve their performance.  He is a consultant, presenter, trainer and author of Gemba Walks for Service Excellence: The Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying Service Delighters. Bob will be working his Read More …

30% Of Wars Are Won By The Weaker Opponent

The  OODA Loop was a focus of a discussion in a past Business901 Podcast with Dr. Terry Barnhart.  It offered some practical applications using the OODA Loop in and outside of rapid deployment. Dr. Barnhart has published a book that mentions the OODA Loop in it. The book is Creating a Lean R&D System: Lean Principles and Read More …

Are You Deploying It or Winging It?

Often times, I wonder if software developers are really deploying something or just winging it. So, who better to ask than Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Related Podcast and Transcription:  Leaders in Lean Software Knowledge Joe:  Data is still king though, isn’t it? I mean, we have to deploy something. We have to be able to measure Read More …

Agile in a Business Sense

Radical management is a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation. Steve Denning author of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century discussed this in a podcast with me. Below is an excerpt from the podcast. Related Podcast and Transcription: Leadership using Agile Methods Read More …