Lean Management System for Lean Service Design

What will drive Leader Standard Work is the “Why” more so than the “How”. The “Why” provides the clear strategic intent which will provide the fuel for Leader Standard Work. This analogy is wonderfully described in David Mann’s Book Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition where he uses the automotive Read More …

Project Management Lessons Learned

It took me two podcasts, Patterns of Behavior affect Projects and  Lesson Learned in Project Management to capture the thoughts of Mel Bost, author of the highly regarded blog, “MEL BOST PMO EXPERT. In the Blog, Mel addresses structure, activities, and behavior of a Program Management Office (PMO) environment. Mel is a principal with BOT Read More …

Lesson Learned in Project Management

Are you good at closing out a project? By that time most of are so happy to see it completed that the drudgery of going back to point fingers and establish blame is the last thing we want to do. However, the greater value, even more so than the actual project, often times, is the Read More …

One Page Project Management Podcast

In this Thursday edition of the Business901 Podcast, Mick Campbell co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International discusses the most recent book, The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper. This replaces the first book and has a section on Agile Project management. The One-Page Project Manager Read More …

Hunter on Management Matters

John Hunter has been writing about management online since 1995. He has shared ideas on management via his blog, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, since 2005 and recently as the new author of the Dr. Deming blog hosted by the W.Edwards Deming Institute. In John’s new book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability,  he looks at Read More …

Management Matters to a Curious Cat

John Hunter has been writing about management online since 1995. He has shared ideas on management via his blog, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, since 2005 and recently as the new author of the Dr. Deming blog hosted by the W.Edwards Deming Institute. In John’s new book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability,  he looks at Read More …