Managing Customer Value
@KarenMartinOpEx, Karen Martin, author of The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence, is my podcast guest next week and this is an excerpt from the podcast. Joe: You bring up my next question and lead into it perfectly. Planning seems to be so taboo. Even the Read More …
Lean Construction Institute (LCI) co-founder and managing director, Gregory A. Howell was my guest on the podcast, The Pull in Lean Construction–Greg Howell. In the podcast, we focused on the decentralization of decision and the empowerment of the people that are in direct contact with the work are the key components of this discussion. This Read More …
My guest for this week’s Busines901 Podcast is Gregory A. Howell, co-founder and managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. Howell brings 35 years of construction industry project management, consulting and university-level teaching experience to LCI. An excerpt from the podcast: Greg Read More …
I find it interesting how many disciplines recommend that you spend fifty percent of your time planning. School = Homework/Testing Sports = Practice/Games Toyota’s PDCA = Planning/(Do/Check/Act) We grow up thinking it is a necessity? What happens? Where does your Company fit in?
When you listen to consultants and so called experts, all they talk about is planning. The reason they exist is for the planning stages. Where are these guys at when it is time to get the work done anyway? Many companies will just take the attitude of let’s just get it done – there is Read More …
I have been trying to find a good layout for Event Planning that I can use in conjunction with my SPIDER Launch Principles and continuously go back to the basic principles of holding a Kaizen Event for planning practically any type of event. A brief overview of using a Kaizen Event format for an event: Read More …