Making Complex Thinking More Organized

Timo ter Berg is the CEO of Critical Thinking, a leader in the development of software. They help people visualize and organize their thoughts combining innovative graphic display tools with the latest research on how to make complex thinking more organized and accessible. They host several products called Rationale and bCisive which can be found Read More …

Thinking of Lean as Your Business Model

Art Byrne has been implementing Lean strategy in various U.S.-based manufacturing and service companies, such as Danaher Corporation, for more than 30 years, including The Wiremold Company, which he ran for 11 years. He now serves as Operating Partner at the private equity firm J. W. Childs Associates L.P. In a podcast (Lean as a Read More …

Are Your Executives Using Machine Thinking?

The co-author of The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance. James Franz,  answered a question of mine around how executives are trained in their thinking. Related Podcast and Transcription: Toyota’s Continuous Improvement Joe: Is this what you mean by machine thinking that’s attractive to a lot of Read More …

The Fit between Design Thinking, Agile and the Lean Startup

Jim Kalbach is a Principal UX Designer with Citrix Online and an active speaker, writer, and instructor on business design, user experience, and information architecture. He has helped starting local UX groups as well as organize conferences in Germany and Europe. Jim is the author of the book Designing Web Navigation an O’Reilly Publication. I Read More …

A Learning Platform for Design Thinking

Dr. Charles Burnette has been a frequent speaker in European design schools and at the European Union’s Cumulus Program on Design Education and is widely published on topics such as design management, design systems, ecological design and design education. He is now writing a book about the design model, its foundations in cognitive science and Read More …

The Misnomer of Thinking out of the Box

Do you want to innovate? Try something new? You surround yourself with a bunch of creative people, go offsite and have a brainstorming session. The ideas are abundant and with so many it seems a shame that we can only try a few due to budget or time constraints. The cold hard truth is that Read More …