Sustain a Lean Culture, use Lean Tools

I worked the Systems2win booth this week at the AME Conference in Dallas, TX. I enjoy the opportunity tremendously as I get to spend a great deal of time with hundreds of Lean Practitioners in a variety of positions and industries. Discussing the Systems2win word and excel continuous improvement templates offers me the opportunity to Read More …

Auction & Giveaway for Haiti Relief

A fellow Lean Blogger, Mark Graban is holding an auction this week, Charity eBay Auction & Giveaway for Haiti Relief – Signed Lean Books & More. His explanation: It has been almost a year since the publication of Russell Maroni’s e-book After the Haiti Earthquake: A Healthcare Missionary’s Personal Journal, a fundraiser for ongoing earthquake Read More …

Group Therapy without a Word

From a tweet via RT @Ashley_Leach and @Jos_de_Jong, I viewed this Ted Video. Bobby McFerri gets the whole audience to sing together, without talking. In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired. Engagement, compelling Read More …

Evolutionary Change thru Kanban

David J. Anderson is credited with the first implementation of a Kanban process for software development, in 2005. David leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has been in software development nearly 30 years and has managed teams on agile software development projects at Sprint, Motorola, Microsoft, and Corbis. Read More …

Lean, Agile and Kanban with Shalloway eBook

Alan Shalloway founder and CEO of Net Objectives was the guest for 3 episodes of the Business901 podcast and this is the transcription of the entire series. It turned out being a 41 pages of some of the latest thinking in the Lean, Agile and Kanban communities.  Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Read More …

Political Campaigns Teach Business (#2)

In the Business901 podcast, What Political Campaigns can teach business, part 1 of 2 we looked at a more strategic view. In today’s podcast, we looked at the tactical practices and how they related not only to a political campaign but to a typical business marketing campaign. Derek A. Pillie has served public and political Read More …