Personal Kanban Forever

Tonianne DeMaria Barry and Jim Benson’s wrote Personal Kanban it seem like a decade ago. I asked Jim during a podcast, “Do you think that Personal Kanban and the book has identified the both of you as people from this time forward?” Jim Benson: Yes. You know, process is all evolution. Living is, we’re always Read More …

Is your Backlog Stale?

I was re-reading the transcription of a podcast on Personal Kanban and this topic of backlog jumped out at me. How do you deal with your backlog? How long does something get to stay in it? Youmay want to skip the blog post and read the entire transcription or listen to the podcast: Pascal Pinck Read More …

Changing Solutions Sometimes Make Sense

In a past podcast, Amir Schragenheim, President of Inherent Simplicity, is a software firm specializing in Theory of Constraint software discussed supply chain thinking with me. Related Podcast and Transcription: Red, Yellow, Green: Is Supply Chain Thinking that Easy? Excerpt from the Podcast: Joe:  Is there places that this type of management doesn’t work? That Read More …

How Supply Chains Live in a Pull World

“The fact that in manufacturing and across the supply chain that the world around us has fundamentally changed.” – Carol Ptak Related Podcast and Transcription: Supply Chain Thinking: Think Where An excerpt from the podcast that I had with Carol: Joe:  Is there a relationship between ASR and TOC? Is the constraint the same, the Read More …

Are Demand-Driven Techniques Needed in Supply Chain Management

Chad Smith is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Constraints Management Group (CMG), a services and technology company specializing in pull-based manufacturing, materials and project management systems for mid-range and large manufacturers. We had a discussion is a past podcast on the Demand -Driven Techniques. Related Podcast and Transcription: New Thoughts in Supply Chain Thinking Read More …

Improvements of 40, 50, 60 percent?

In a past podcast with the co-authors John G. Schleier, Jr. and James F. Cox III of the book Theory of Constraints Handbook, I asked them if you can really get this type of improvements.  Related Podcast and Transcriptions: Theory of Constraints Discussion Joe:  What takes place when you have these paradigm shifts? You’re saying Read More …