Lean 3P Design more Humanistic by Going Back to Nature

In the Lean Design we use a process that is called Lean 3P. One of the most contentious part of 3P is this idea of looking to nature, to try to find solutions to the problems you’re trying to solve. We begin by looking at all the value?adding steps. Then for each of those value?adding Read More …

Mixing Personal Kanban and Cross-Generational Collaboration

In next weeks ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas, one of the facilitators in our Strength-Based Organizational Change track is Barbara Ivey.  She will facilitate the breakouts on Personal Kanban and Cross-Generational Collaboration. Personal Kanban is a process popularized by the book, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life co-authored Read More …

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 …

CHAT in Activity Theory Thinking

In my mailbox several weeks ago from the website Academia.edu, I came across an article, How Instructional Designers Solve Workplace Problems, co-authored by Dr. Lisa Yamagata-Lynch.  An abstract on the article: The findings revealed differences between experts and novices with regards to tolerance of ambiguity, expectations about their own roles in finding solutions for their 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 …