Achieving Organizational Health

The podcast with @KarenMartinOpEx highlights some not so popular subjects in many circles, planning and standard work. Karen Martin voices her opinion about these two controversial subjects while discussing how to Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence, the subtitle to her new book The Outstanding Organization. A written Read More …

Is your Organizational Culture limiting you?

Recently, I have been challenging the  traditional hierarchy of organizations. I have found it limiting when trying to develop new collaborative structures internally and externally. I discussed this in a recent blog post, The Uniqueness of Hoshin Kanri. Dan Pink provides a nice example on an empirical basis. (Video is an excerpt from Daniel Pink’s Read More …

Kanban, A Great Organizational Idea

I have been using Scrum and Kanban for a while now and have been finding them very useful. In fact, I like it so much that I am even practicing it on a personal level. Where I picked up the idea of Personal Kanban is from Jim Benson, an Expert in Personal Kanban. He states Read More …