Innovation at the Mayo Clinic

Next week is my 300th Business901 podcast. It was a special treat for me to interview Barbara Spurrier, MHA, the founding and current administrative director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. She has advised senior leaders in the health care industry for over two decades, serving as a champion for innovation in large, complex Read More …

Peak Learning Mind Map

Looking through my Accelerated Learning information, I ran across an old favorite of mine, Peak Learning.   This work is based on the Accelerated Learning trend of the 90’s. I appreciate so much of that work since it is laid out base largely on the learning style of the individual versus on the way we Read More …

Is TWI a Strength-Based Approach?

When I think about Training within Industry (TWI), I think of a method of incremental training. You don’t go out and try to train everyone at once, but you work on Methos, Relationships and Instruction.  I asked Bob Petruska, the author of Gemba Walks for Service Excellence: The Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying Service Delighters, a Read More …

How Does An Introvert Network Effectively?

Joan Friedlander, owner of Lifework Business Partners was my guest on a past Business901 Podcast and we had the opportunity to discuss creating realistic and executable marketing plans for self-employed service business owners and key members of a business team. One of Joan’s specialties is working with Introverts and our conversation extended into using those Read More …

The Original Pizza Game at AME Jacksonville

Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting will be working his magic in his upcoming workshop at the 2014 Jacksonville AME Conference where you can participate and witness the hands-on Pizza Game. Learn the basics of value stream mapping (VSM) and create your own maps with metrics showing the potential benefits. You will gain practical Lean Read More …

7 Kata = The Next 7 Tools?

We have started a few discussions around the web and formed a Next 7 Tools community group to explore, create, and perfect the next generation of continuous improvement tools. I have offered a few suggestions one being in the blog post, Please Join Us in Evolving The Next Seven Tools. In this post I considered Read More …