A New Iteration of Lean aka Lean Change Method

I interviewed Jeff Anderson the catalyst behind the Lean Change Method for next week’s Business901 podcast. More information is available about the Lean Change Method at http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/.  Jeff leads the Deloitte Lean market offering, providing advisory, transformation, and change management services to software technology based organizations, helping them transform through the use of agile and Read More …

Collaborative Skills of Thomas Edison

Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab was a book that fascinated me. Author  Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns provides a look at how Edison’s collaboration methods can be used face-to-face and by virtual teams. Many of us struggle Read More …

Kansei Engineering the Unknown Discipline

Why don’t we hear about the emotional engineering discipline of Kansei? Why is that? As Design Thinking and Service Design have moved to the forefront in many organizations, we seem to have forgotten about this method. It is so unfamiliar, that I feel a need to define it first: Kansei is a Japanese term with Read More …

Emotional Engineering from Jaguar

Michelle O’Conner, “You don’t how much fun I am having in this car?” Ian Callum, Russ Varney, Mark White and Michelle O’Connor from Jaguar’s Design and Engineering teams talk about working together to create beautiful fast cars. If your mindset evolves around Service Dominant Logic thinking, you may view value from three points; Functional, Social, Read More …

Was Steve Jobs the Thomas Edison of his day?

A descendant of Thomas Edison, Sarah Miller Caldicott is an innovation process expert, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns. Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, she has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life.  Sarah spent the first 15 years of her 25-year career as a Marketing Read More …

How to conduct a Good Interview

Katie Couric chats with producer Tony Maciulis about what makes a good interview. This video is part of the YouTube Reporters’ Center. To see more videos on how to report the news, or to post some ideas of your own, visit http://youtube.com/reporterscenter.   From creating an ad-hoc team to creating user personas, interviewing is becoming Read More …