It all goes Back in the Box

I am a big Ken Blanchard fan and maybe even a bigger TEDx fan. Ken recently appeared at TEDx tp discuss Collaboration. His talks breaks down into three areas: if you meet someone who wants to accomplish something, and you want to accomplish something, the experience is meant to be dynamic Rely on the different Read More …

Tales of Continuous Improvment

Beyond Agile co-author Maritza van den Heuvel was my guest on the podcast, .Should your Processes be cast in Stone.  Below is a transcription of the podcast. Beyond Agile examines 10 companies, mostly in the tech world, but also in innovative automotive and business consulting, that have actively evolved their processes. Using tools from Lean, Read More …

Standard Work in Lean Marketing

Leader standard work is a concept in Lean Management, popularized by David Mann in his book “Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition”, that creates standard work for managers. For many in the Agile community, the notion of “standard work” brings a repellent idea of standardization and work standards, and the Read More …

What Men can learn from Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Read More …

Driving Market Share thru Customer Value

In my journey over the past few years to bring a Continuous Improvement philosophy to marketing, I have primarily focused on Lean and identifying the individual Value Streams. Lean was a much easier methodology to implement and utilize. Working in the past with Dr. Eric Reidenbach of Six Sigma Marketing Institute, we developed the program Read More …

Should your Processes be cast in Stone

Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement is the latest publication of Modus Cooperandi. Co-author Maritza van den Heuvel is my guest on the podcast. Beyond Agile examines 10 companies, mostly in the tech world, but also in innovative automotive and business consulting, that have actively evolved their processes. Using tools from Lean, Agile and other Read More …