Lean as your Business Model w Byrne

After reading Art Brynre new book The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company, you will wonder why it took Art so long to write a book. The way I see it there has been a lot of people making money talking about Lean but Art chose Read More …

An Insider’s View on Social Media

Ric Dragon’s organization is DragonSearch, one of the best boutique SMM (social media marketing) and SEO agencies in New York. Ric appeared on the Business901 podcast, Using Lean Thinking in Social Media. He recently authored Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. Below is a transcription of the podcast. Read More …

Capturing the Flow of Information

Since 1953, the Graham Process Mapping method has been the choice of experts worldwide who need to understand the details of their data flows.  Since 1990, Graham Process Mapping Software has made detailed process mapping even easier.  Graham Process maps display every hand-off, every decision point, every customer interaction, every time information changes in an Read More …

How to unite Development and Operations

DevOps is becoming a familiar word in the world of IT and as a result shifting the focus away from separate departments working independently to an organization-wide collaboration. It’s about addressing all the work as a whole, versus looking only at the bits and pieces, or only looking at capital versus expense. One of the Read More …

Process and Activity Mapping

Andy Carlino and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center discuss activity mapping and product / process maps and their use in business process improvement. A couple of my favorite Lean people add to my recent conversations on Process Mapping. Jamie and Andy are the co-authors of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Read More …

Lean, IT, Kanban, Dev/Ops, DeGrandis

I interviewed @dominicad (Dominica DeGrandis), who teaches and coaches teams using Kanban for IT Operations and Development Operations.  She is an independent consultant as well as an associate of David J. Anderson.  Her background includes ten years of doing Configuration Management, build and deployment automation, and server & environment maintenance, followed by leading teams performing Read More …