The Uniqueness of Hoshin Kanri

The “Hoshin” is developed at each layer of management clarifying strategies and targets to assist in reaching the preceding layer’s targets. This results in both a macro and micro PDCA. This greatly increases the line of sight and shared responsibility to each other in achieving these goals. Kanri is defined as a method to efficiently Read More …

Tricks from the Trenches on applying Hoshin Kanri

Anthony Manos is a Catalyst with Profero, Inc., where he provides professional consulting services, implementation, coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations, large and small, private and public, in many industries focusing on Lean Enterprise and Lean Healthcare. Mr. Manos has extensive knowledge of Lean and quality in a wide range of work Read More …

The Death of List Price

Rob Doctors was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, The Irrelevancy of List Price. this is a transcription of the podcast. Rob is a co-author of Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price and the New Market Reality. Rob believes that pricing decisions need to be driven by customer context rather than simple list prices. Pricing Read More …

Does ROWE solve some Lean problems

In next weeks podcast, I have David Kasprzak, of the popular blog, My Flexible Pencil discussing  ROWE a concept developed by Jody Thompson and published in her book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution. An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  That’s a very interesting point, because that’s what always frustrates Read More …

Driving Profit through People and Processes

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, People & Process Drive Profit Podcast with Vivian Hairston Blade, Founder, President & CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting, LLC (EiGL Consulting, LLC) based in Louisville, KY. Open publication Vivian is a recognized expert, keynote speaker, trainer and executive coach in the principles of Customer Experience, Read More …

People & Process Drive Profit Podcast

Vivian Hairston Blade, Founder, President & CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting, LLC (EiGL Consulting, LLC) based in Louisville, KY was my podcast guest.  Vivian is a recognized expert, keynote speaker, trainer and executive coach in the principles of Customer Experience, Lean Six Sigma and Leadership Development. With a 20+ year career in Fortune Read More …