Business Process Management more than an IT Function

Business Process Management is more than an IT function. It is how we go about our work as an organization. Theodore Panagacos, a former Management Consultant with Booz & Company explains this and how BPM works with Lean and Six Sigma in his book The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management: Everything you need to Read More …

Process Thinking in Services

Lean Services, Lean Marketing and, as a result, Lean Service Design have been a large part of my efforts. When you get involved in a marketing effort, many people and organizations that are making the request have a failed service problem. It is seldom about getting more leads it is more often than not, managing Read More …

Growth is about People, not Process or Product

If you can build a culture of PDCA, a culture of learning, growth becomes part of everyone’s job. It is this aspect I believe that separates good companies from great companies. There is not an internal factor that will be more limiting or more expansive than the people within the organization. Building a learning culture Read More …

Use the Lean 3P Process to drive Effective Change

More than a Design Tool When we think of Lean 3P are minds drift automatically  to Lean Design and Lean Product Development. That is the purpose of it; Production, Preparation, Process. As a result, we deliver not only a better product/service to the customer but also to our own internal organization. However, unbeknownst to me, Read More …

Sales Process Engineering is not Lean Sales and Marketing

It is not the Process, it is the Conversation Joseph Juran observed, “There should be no reason our familiar principles of quality and process engineering would not work in the sales process.” In Management of a Sales Force, a sales process is presented as consisting of eight steps. These are: Prospecting/Initial contact Pre-approach planning the Read More …