Has Engineering Taken on a Trade Type Stigmatization?

Are you an Engineer at a Lean Manufacturer? Take a moment and offer a comment on LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2zlhSPY [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDqXUR21dU” /] In this day of innovation, design, etc. it seems to me that the role of engineering has taken on practically a trade type nomenclature. What attracted many of us to this discipline is the desire Read More …

Can Lean help Engineering be Sexy Again?

In this day of innovation, design, etc. it seems to me that the role of engineering has taken on practically a trade type nomenclature. What attracted many of us to this discipline is the desire to create things. Are engineers still considered at the cutting edge, innovative and entrepreneurial? I have used Lean Product Development as Read More …

Storymapping Your Product

Drawing on her experiences with Fortune 500 companies, public radio, filmmaking, and more, Donna Lichaw helps you navigate the oft-treacherous waters of product development. Donna helps you not just to tell stories or use stories to promote your product, but to build your products as if they were stories themselves. Her book, The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love shows Read More …

Vision is More Than a Forecast

People talk about vision all the time. It is often misunderstood and taken out of context. They think it is for annual planning and boardroom activities. They think of vision as some lofty goal that could be characterized by statements like this: Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Read More …

Guidance for the New Manager

Bryan Armentrout  is the owner of The Food Leadership Group, a food safety and quality systems consulting firm. He has written a new book called The New Manager Mindset: How to Master the Four Secrets of Leadership that College Doesn’t Teach You which is about passing along what he has learned in over 20+ years as Read More …

Greatest Pain + Easiest to Measure

Disruptive Innovations: Greatest Pain + Easiest to Measure Yesterday’s podcast excerpt with Tim Sanders, ended this way, Joe, doesn’t that sound like sales? I mean, we have to solve a bunch of our little prospecting presentation closing problems just to get the right to solve the customer’s problem, and quality works exactly the same way. Read More …