Managing Customer Value
Steve Denning has written an excellent book portraying Lean and Agile techniques to the practice of management. Many of his thoughts parallel mine though I am only viewing these techniques from a sales and marketing perspective. His seven principles depicted below is the essence of the thoughts in the book. The book is well written, Read More …
Do you really expect a CEO to lead a Lean Transformation? Why should you even expect upper management to sign off on the transformation before you prove the value of it? Time and time again, I have always heard the failure of any transformation, Lean, Six Sigma or practically any methodology to be the fault Read More …
My guest on the Business901 podcast was Bill Dettmer Senior Partner of Goal Systems International. Bill is one of the most recognized expert in the Theory of Constraints field and more specifically the Logical Thinking Process. He has Eight years graduate level teaching of systems management, systems analysis, human factors, management control systems, organizational behavior Read More …
John Shook, author of the landmark book, Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process said in response, to the basic question “What is an A3?”: “The most basic definition of an A3 would be a P-D-C-A storyboard or report, reflecting Toyota’s way of capturing the PDCA process on one sheet of paper. But the Read More …
Is your program or even project manager ready for this kind of challenge? How does a classic program and project management change as a result of this global influence? Paula Wagner,co-author of Global Program Management did a great job of answering these questions as they applied to both small and large organizations. With the increase Read More …
I have first hand knowledge of several of these instructors and the ones that I don’t are well renowned in the Lean field. I can hardly think of a better cast that could be put together. I wonder if Lean Enterprise will put together a film clip like this for these Rock Stars? I think Read More …