Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. He focuses on improving individual and team productivity through the adaptation of lean concepts. He’s a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute and teaches classes at the Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business. Dan’s book on improving personal performance by utilizing lean manufacturing Read More …
Carol Ptak and Chad Smith are the co-author of the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E. A fully revised and updated edition of the landmark work on material requirements planning (MRP), Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Edition focuses on the new rules required to effectively support a manufacturing operation using MRP systems in the twenty-first Read More …
Eli Schrangenheim has been part of the Theory of Constraints movement practically from the beginning. He started working with Dr. Goldratt as a programmer to program a game for adults that would teach them how to think over 25 years ago. He is the author of Management Dilemmas: The Theory of Constraints Approach to Problem Read More …
I have been pretty vocal in the past about using Value Stream Mapping, Value Stream Mapping should be left on the Shop Floor, and along with a couple other blog posts, Shaping your Customers Vision and Kill the Sales and Marketing Funnel. I think these types of tools lead us down a precarious path when Read More …
Evan Leybourn pioneered the field of Agile Business Management; applying the successful concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate management. He keeps busy as a senior IT executive, business management consultant, non-executive director, conference speaker, internationally published author and father. You can find our more about Evan on his website, The Agile Director. Read More …
In last weeks podcast I asked Troy Tuttle a question on how does someone get started with process improvement and he responded: Troy Tuttle: Yeah, that’s a good question. I’m going to give you kind of my Anderson’s Kanban or the David Anderson’s version of Kanban answer where really the context of that, of wherever Read More …