Leading Lean from the Middle

Paul Yandell of Value Stream Focus was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, Transforming Lean thru Middle Managers. This is a transcription of the podcast. Paul Yandell is a manufacturing and supply chain specialist with strong skills in identifying and eliminating waste and improving operational performance.  His particular strengths are building infrastructure to support turnaround and Read More …

Can Lean be driven by Middle Management?

Paul Yandell:  I speak to middle managers, I was a resident with them. I think most of us have been middle managers and understand those frustrations. I hit on a theme of a guerrilla manager, years and years ago, and I’ve actually given a similar talk to a number of national and local forums. It Read More …

The Death of List Price

Rob Doctors was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, The Irrelevancy of List Price. this is a transcription of the podcast. Rob is a co-author of Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price and the New Market Reality. Rob believes that pricing decisions need to be driven by customer context rather than simple list prices. Pricing Read More …

Does ROWE solve some Lean problems

In next weeks podcast, I have David Kasprzak, of the popular blog, My Flexible Pencil discussing  ROWE a concept developed by Jody Thompson and published in her book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution. An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  That’s a very interesting point, because that’s what always frustrates Read More …

Driving Profit through People and Processes

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, People & Process Drive Profit Podcast with Vivian Hairston Blade, Founder, President & CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting, LLC (EiGL Consulting, LLC) based in Louisville, KY. Open publication Vivian is a recognized expert, keynote speaker, trainer and executive coach in the principles of Customer Experience, Read More …

Kaizen is Always Individual

Last spring, Dr Balle the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute and I had a conversation on Kaizen which resulted in an 8-week series of videos and a podcast. This is a 34 page transcription of the discussion. I think you will find it entertaining and will provide a different way of viewing continuous Read More …