Help! Do You Know Anything about the 4P Process?

I have been doing some project work in Scorecarding and Dashboarding lately and ran across the term the 4P Cycle in Gupta’s book, Six Sigma Business Scorecard. The 4P Cycle consist of Prepare represents ensuring good inputs to the process, The inputs consist of Ishikawa’s 4Ms (material, machines, methods, and manpower or people). The objective Read More …

Is there anything new in Continuous Improvement

I question if is just the latest fad or the latest take on an improvement method that gets us motivated. It is  good that we continuously strive to improve whether it be Lean, Six Sigma or any Continuous Improvement effort. I made this quick chart out that describes just a few of the disciplines that Read More …

Kanban, could we call this podcast anything else

David Anderson, author of the recent book, Kanban appeared on the Business901 podcast and added 50 minutes of Kanban discussion. David covered a lot of ground in this discussion and answered a lot of questions for me that his book raised. David is a thought leader in managing highly effective software teams. He is President Read More …