Using Lean as a Growth Strategy

If you are successful at implementing Lean, it is simply not Lean. It’s yours. I first studied TQM back in nineteen-eighties which served as my precursor for Lean. Along the way, I was primarily influenced by Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking. I always found my roots and practices best associated with Lean. Read More …

SD-Logic at the Center of Business Growth

It is always funny that until you have purchased a new car, you see so few of them on the street. Afterwards, it seems like every light you pull up to there is one. Even the different makes start looking like your own. Tuesday night, I posted a blog, Is there a Fifth way to Read More …

Using Design Thinking for Growth

Using Design Thinking for Growth is a transcription of a the Business901 podcast, Design Thinker exposed as Left Brain Dominant. I am not sure if it was the title or the timing of the podcast (it was released around the 4th of July) but this podcast did not reach the listener-ship that I had thought Read More …

600% Twitter Growth & Amount of Spam E-mail Quadruples, Is there a correlation

MarketingCharts: New Twitter Users Drive 600% Growth; Personalized Spam Quadruples; Twitter’s New Users Drive 600% Growth Popular microblogging site Twitter now has about 4M-5M users, the majority of whom joined in 2008 and have contributed to the site’s 600% growth in the last 12 months, according to the first “State of the Twittershpere” (pdf)  report Read More …

What is growth?

“What is Growth?You must grow as a company to be successful, right? I have always said that and I think it has many times been mis-interpreted. Does growth mean getting bigger or even just increasing sales? Not according to me. My idea of business growth is much like maturing as an individual. Let me explain:It’s Read More …