I carried Ed Deming’s Bag

He was doing several of these every year, 4-day sessions, and he had just lost his personal assistant, or I should say scared him off. Knuth thought that would be a wonderful thing for me to do for awhile, so I spent a little bit of time carrying his bags. An excerpt from next week’s Read More …

Becoming a Lean Construction Consultant

Dave MacNeel of On Point Lean Consulting: Lean Construction was my guest this week on the podcast. On Point Lean Consulting provides on-site Lean Construction coaching and training for owners, builders, and designers looking to improve the delivery of capital projects. Dave has a few great stories as he went from project management, introducing Lean into a construction company Read More …

Public Innovation: Cleveland Clinic Way

I asked Dr. Graham, the author of Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work this question: You talk about these practices, and I assume you believe they could be used by others in the medical field, that’s why you wrote the book, but what about outside the medical field? An excerpt from the Read More …

Adjust Step in CAP-Do

In response to a few comments that have surfaced on LinkedIn picture I posted about CAP-Do and captioned with: How do you start applying Lean to sales and marketing? I use CAP-Do, it seems practically to simple, but it’s like PDCA…how simple is it? Do you ever master it? The post found a variety of Read More …

Multiple Paths of a Customer Journey

People arrive at a given point in their service experience from a multiple of ways and am I wrong in my thinking or do I need a makeup a path for each of them or do we just try to push all of them down a certain path? – Joe Dager Ben Reason:  I think Read More …

Service Design Jam – Next Weekend!

The first Global Service Jam took place in March 2011, where more than 1200 participants in more than 50 cities created around 200 unique service designs around the Theme “(Super)HEROES”. A sister event, the Global Sustainability Jam, tool place in October 2011. Around 800 participants in more than 40 cities created over 100 services, products and Read More …