Lean People Development Summit hosted by Lean Frontiers in Savannah, GA Lean People Development Summit, held this September 11-12, is designed for those companies who realize the importance of engaging people, creating a supportive culture and developing leaders at all levels. The Summit will draw professionals from HR, continuous improvement, and leadership to explore how Read More …
Karen Gadd has worked on nothing but TRIZ since discovering and learning its power to give us all the routes, to all the solutions, to all problems. In 1998 Karen started Oxford Creativity to concentrate on developing simple and practical TRIZ problem solving for the European market. Karen’s book TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving published by WileyBlackwell Read More …
The Deadliest Waste of All is the Waste of Talent and Creativity Recently, I have been talking with Lean Frontiers and discussing a few of their upcoming summits. In particular, the Lean People Development Summit that was formerly named the Lean HR Summit. I have some upcoming podcasts, concerning HR and was trying to fill out some Read More …
The further we are from our customers’ knowledge base the more effort has to be made to create a larger and larger supply of prospects. When typical product-based organizations think of co-creation, they think of their engineers working with customers to develop their products in a more customer-friendly way. That is one way, but the Read More …
Bernadette Jiwa thinks it might come from a Hunch which also happens to be the name of her new book; Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into The Next Big Thing. Filled with success stories, reflection exercises, and writing prompts, Hunch is the indispensable guide to embracing your unique potential and discovering your own winning ideas. Bernadette has written Read More …
Using the A3 Thinking Process gives a systemic way of implementing Lean Thinking in Sales and Marketing. Through the A3 tool mindset, you learn to think Lean. But to start, I like to think of old Zen saying, If you want to take a deep breath, you must first exhale That is why I encourage the use Read More …