An Innovation Junkie Interviewed

Saul Kaplan (@skap5), the author of The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing was my guest on the podcast. Saul is an innovation junkie!  He is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF), a real-world laboratory for exploring and testing new business models and Read More …

Is forecasting the pull for a Lean Supply Chain?

Paul Myerson, author of Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast. Paul claims to have written a practical guide and from this excerpt I think you can tell. He takes the most complex subjects and makes them simple. I re-read many parts of the book not because Read More …

How Zing Training Started! –

Next week’s Business901 Podcast features Ari Weinzweig, CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Zingerman’s Community of Businesses (ZCoB) has annual sales of over $40 million. ZingTrain, a consulting and training company shares Zingerman’s approach to business with like-minded organizations from around the world, and offers a variety of management training Read More …

Tricks and Tips on Hoshin Kanri

Anthony Mano, a Catalyst with Profero, Inc. was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, Tricks from the Trenches on applying Hoshin Kanri. This is a transcription of the podcast. Anthony Manos through Profero, Inc.provides professional consulting services, implementation, coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations, large and small, private and public, in many industries Read More …

Is your Organizational Culture limiting you?

Recently, I have been challenging the  traditional hierarchy of organizations. I have found it limiting when trying to develop new collaborative structures internally and externally. I discussed this in a recent blog post, The Uniqueness of Hoshin Kanri. Dan Pink provides a nice example on an empirical basis. (Video is an excerpt from Daniel Pink’s Read More …

Learning thru Relentless Reflection

Hoshin Kanri is a management system that creates a method of policy deployment in the form of both organizational and employees goals. It is a step by step implementation and review process from a systems approach perspective for change. In the simplest form, top management sets a vision and bottom line employee sets the tactics. Read More …