Improvements Without Standard Work?

I was intrigued by Mark Hamel, author of  Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events that so much of his book is spent on Standard Work. Below is how he answered that question. Related Podcast and Transcription: Lean Business System Mark Hamel:  I think back to when I started learning from Read More …

Is Sales and Marketing Responsible for Knowledge Creation?

This discussion with Jack Vinson was previously cut from the original podcast. You can find the Related Podcast and Transcription at the Knowledge Game. Our discussion at the end of the podcast: Joe Dager:  I think people struggle with that concept of Knowledge Management. I just really, that’s why I was trying to find people Read More …

Focused Performance

Jump start your 2015 business planning. Russell Martin & Associates has created The Focused Performance Bundle. The package includes everything you need to facilitate the planning sessions with your team.  Once you know where you want to go and where you don’t want to go in 2015, start brainstorming initiatives that will take you there.  Read More …

Forming a Quality Group

This is the last in series of interviews that I had with Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting. We have covered subjects from Trystoming to Value Stream Mapping. A complete list: Production Improvement: Crank it up and Go Faster Training 201: Training other People? TryStorming instead of BrainStorming? The Original Pizza Game at AME Jacksonville Read More …

What knowledge are you supposed to capture?

Do you capture everything? Is everything a lesson learned? How do you decide what you need to capture for the closeout? I asked Mel Bost a Principal Consultant in BOT International’s PMO Practice who specializes in PMO best practices, project lessons learned, and program management those questions in a past podcast, Related Podcast and Transcription:  Read More …

A Project Charter, You Gotta Be Kidding Me

I was thrilled to have Lou Russell  of RMA Associates as my guest next week on the podcast.  She is a project management guru who cut her teeth in Accelerated Learning. In fact, she wrote the book,The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook: Making the Instructional Process Fast, Flexible, and Fun. Tune in to find the connection. An Read More …