Cisco’s Teamwork and Collaboration

Cisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork. An excellent representation of? how to implement teamwork and collaboration while still reaping the effectiveness and efficiency. Some of Cisco’s best practices were studied by NASA and here are a few of the recommendations Read More …

Will the Mvp crush the Lean Startup?

This seems an appropriate post this week since there was big hullabaloo about a certain App that claimed certain features and did not deliver. If they intended it to be a minimum viable product (Mvp), let’s just say there was more MINIMUM than viable in the product. Though it was discovered and bantered about the Read More …

A Beginning Step to Co-Creation

You are what you charge for. And if you’re competing solely on the basis of price, then you’ve been commoditized, offering little or no true differentiation. What would your customers really value? Better yet, for what would they pay a premium? Experiences. Joseph Pine co-author of the book The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Read More …

Why bother with Value Networks?

Verna Allee, M.A., is Co-founder and CEO of Value Networks LLC, located at ValueNetworks.com. Verna was my guest on the Business901 Podcast, What’s behind Collaboration and Value Networks?. We discussed the history of knowledge management and how her work has evolved into value networks. Value Network philosophies also apply to Lean, Agile and into sales Read More …

Using Cynefin for a Lean Transformation

This talk integrates Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework with Gunderson and Holling’s Cycle of Adaptive Change. This adds the time dimension to Snowden’s Framework and adds a strategic knowledge dimension to the Cycle of Adaptive Change. This provides queues for knowledge and action during different kinds of transition, which provides a theory-driven evidence base for strategic Read More …

Reducing Muda for Others with Kaizen

Kaizen is about involving employees to get them not only the way to do work but to help improve the way others do their work. The Friday Video Series continues with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. This series of videos continues with a central theme of Kaizen. Dr. Balle Read More …