Can Control Points add Value in Lean

Can you really add value or are you just creating another tool to fill out some more paperwork? On the Business901 podcast. Jamie Flinchbaugh the co-author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road answered this and a few more questions such as: What is a control point? What is control point standardization? Read More …

Are you Lean enough to have A3 thinking

I was looking for a primer on A3 to include in my blog and found this IW Best Plants Conference: Developing People with A3 Thinking: In this session at the 2009 IW Best Plants Conference, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and Partner, Lean Learning Center provides a basic primer on A3, outlining its use as a method Read More …

Shorten Marketing Cycle, Incr. Lifecycle

Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing The Value Stream Map is a lean tool to analyze the value stream. Value Stream Mapping techniques involves mapping each step of a process looking for waste and on improving the total time from the beginning to the end of the entire stream. One of Read More …

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How Good are you at Marketing Yourself? Marketing your Black Belt is a 28-day program starting November 5th. Marketing your Black Belt is based specifically on addressing these issues: Customer Acquisition, Marketing, Customer Retention and Communication & Collaboration. Specifically designed for Quality consultants. Get Clients NOW – 28 Day Program: Program starting on first Monday Read More …

Value is a Relative Concept

Most companies when considering the value they offer to the marketplace only consider the value that their customers or buyers receive. Your company‘s value proposition is actually a two part function. One, is how buyers evaluate your product/service and two, how non-buyers evaluate your product/service offering. If you lack the understanding of how non-buyers rate Read More …

3 ways the brain creates meaning

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/wPFA8n7goio” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”500″ grow=”yes”] Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, Read More …