Kata, If You’re Doing It Right, It’s Beyond Engaging

The brilliant part about the Kata is that it lays out a method and a routine, and if you follow the routine, you can learn it by yourself. I mean it takes some discipline in doing it, but it’s not rocket science. It is asking before telling. It’s observing, before doing it yourself and it Read More …

Beyond Lean is Real Life – Real Lean

I am honored once again to be part of John Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival. The roundup is a review of blogs by other bloggers within the Lean community. John is one of the pioneers in using internet technology and using it to improve organizational performance in a way to get results. I Read More …

What is beyond Customer Experience

In this video, Joe Pine explains the final offering in the Progression of Economic Value, the foundational model for understanding the role of Experiences in the history of economics. It was first introduced to me in the The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by Pine and Gilmore. It is worth Read More …

Does Lean need to move beyond Deming?

The Agile Minds Group in Belgium recently held a conference on Lean Software Development. The speakers were a few of my favorite podcast guests such as Jim Benson , David Anderson and Don Reinertsen. Don is always entertaining and has such a way with explaining statistics that he makes himself difficult to argue with. This Read More …