Changing Solutions Sometimes Make Sense

In a past podcast, Amir Schragenheim, President of Inherent Simplicity, is a software firm specializing in Theory of Constraint software discussed supply chain thinking with me. Related Podcast and Transcription: Red, Yellow, Green: Is Supply Chain Thinking that Easy? Excerpt from the Podcast: Joe:  Is there places that this type of management doesn’t work? That Read More …

How Supply Chains Live in a Pull World

“The fact that in manufacturing and across the supply chain that the world around us has fundamentally changed.” – Carol Ptak Related Podcast and Transcription: Supply Chain Thinking: Think Where An excerpt from the podcast that I had with Carol: Joe:  Is there a relationship between ASR and TOC? Is the constraint the same, the Read More …

Are Demand-Driven Techniques Needed in Supply Chain Management

Chad Smith is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Constraints Management Group (CMG), a services and technology company specializing in pull-based manufacturing, materials and project management systems for mid-range and large manufacturers. We had a discussion is a past podcast on the Demand -Driven Techniques. Related Podcast and Transcription: New Thoughts in Supply Chain Thinking Read More …

Improvements of 40, 50, 60 percent?

In a past podcast with the co-authors John G. Schleier, Jr. and James F. Cox III of the book Theory of Constraints Handbook, I asked them if you can really get this type of improvements.  Related Podcast and Transcriptions: Theory of Constraints Discussion Joe:  What takes place when you have these paradigm shifts? You’re saying Read More …

Can You Learn The Menlo Way?

Joyful and disciplined “agile” methodologies are the foundation on how Menlo Innovations have built their business culture. At this date, I am sure there is only limited seating left for this action packed day at Lean Frontiers outstanding training facility in Indianapolis, IN. In the August 26th session you will learn… how Menlo’s iterative design Read More …

Is there a Lack of Commitment in Agile, Kanban?

A while back, I had a podcast with Yuval Yeret is a senior Agile Consultant on the AgileSparks team who focuses on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. See what Yuval says about commitment… Related Podcast and Transcription: Kanban and Scrum: A Mixed Approach Joe:  That’s interesting, because commitment does seem that when Read More …