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In a recent Business901 podcast, Use the Lean 3P Process to drive Effective Change, I discussed with co-author of the book, Dan McDonnell, how to use Lean 3P within the organization not only for Lean Product Development but also for any type of change program. About the book, Unleashing the Power of 3P: The Key Read More …
Structure eats Culture for Breakfast! “I make all our managers read The Lean Startup,” says a Wall Street Journal ad quoting Jeffrey Immell the CEO General Electric for Eric Reis’s book. Well, Mr. Immell, I would recommend that unless you change structurally, it is likely that your managers have just read a fiction book. It Read More …
(ASQ) Lean Enterprise Division will host the webinar Lean Service Design: Closing the Gaps between Perception and Reality on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST. 80% of Companies believe they deliver a Superior Service, only 8% of their Customers agree Lean Service Design changes the way you think about business. No Read More …
It seems like an opportune time. They are getting squeezed from a lot of directions. And just like the auto industry, they are one of the most visible industries that we point towards to lead us out of the recession. Lean may not be the savior but from the description Scott Sedam, President of TrueNorth Read More …
More than a Design Tool When we think of Lean 3P are minds drift automatically to Lean Design and Lean Product Development. That is the purpose of it; Production, Preparation, Process. As a result, we deliver not only a better product/service to the customer but also to our own internal organization. However, unbeknownst to me, Read More …
My original gateway to Lean came from the systems thinking perspective developed by Peter Senge in The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization and Kaplan and Norton’s, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. In between Lean and Systems Thinking, I spent some time with Six Sigma because Jack Welch and Read More …