Standard Work as your Whirlwind–Manage it!

I am an advocate of Standard Work. My approach is that it encompasses so much of our time that we should become proficient at it  just to ensure we make other things possible. The amount of Standard Work that you have differs from organization to organization and from person to person but we all have Read More …

An Uncommon Way of Thinking about Service Design

Service Design Thinking: Anne Morriss, the best selling co-author of Uncommon Service says, We live in a world where lots of organizations want to deliver great service. We work with managers all the time, who are committed to it. Customers, as we know, are hungry for it, and yet, our service experiences are still overwhelmingly Read More …

Kids like Fun and Social Activities, do you?

If games are so engaging, why can’t work be that way? Great examples of how this is happening in Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.co and Dopamine, keynote at TNW2012 conference this year. Gabe is an author, highly rated public speaker and entrepreneur whose book, Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps Read More …

A Short Course in Design Thinking

Ready, Set, Design is a favorite group activities, for adults and kids alike, at Cooper-Hewitt. It’s a highly adaptable design challenge that can jump-start collaborative and creative thinking in any group. They use it with kids’ groups at the Museum, for internal staff meetings, and even at industry conferences and summits. The activity is such Read More …

Will someone pay for Intangible Value?

In a recent blog post, Looking for a Game Changer, Start Underperforming!, I discussed the book Uncommon Service. Next weeks Business901 podcast guest co-author Anne Morriss discusses the four universal truths outlined in the book for delivering uncommon service: You can’t be good at everything. Someone has to pay for it. It’s not your employees’ Read More …

Future of Lean Transcription

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the noted experts in the Lean Community, Dan Jones. This is a transcription of our podcast, The Future of Lean with Dan Jones. We spent a fair amount of time discussing Lean outside the four walls of the enterprise and how Lean interacts with the customer. Daniel Read More …