Brandon Brown: Toyota Kata (Part 2 of 2)

Brandon Brown delivers tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota KataCoach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator as an Associate for the W3 Group. Since 2006, Brandon has been a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville teaching courses in the Industrial Engineering department such as Lean Production and Leadership Principles and Practices for the Read More …

The Innovation A3

I have been a big advocate of the work that Jeanne Liedtka, a Professor of Management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, has done. Several years ago, I had the pleasure interviewing her co-author Tim Ogilvie on the Business901 Podcast, Transcription with Podcast link:  Using Design Thinking for Growth. I have used Read More …

Shrinking Middle Class of Sales Accounts

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube A short open-ended discussion about the shrinking middle class of sales accounts. Are you seeing the same thing? Place a comment on YouTube.  CAP-Do (More Info): What makes CAP-Do so attractive is that it assumes we do not have the answers. It allows us to create a Read More …

Collaborate with Outside Organizations to Boost Your Sales Efforts

Beth Comstock, CMO at General Electric, urges all businesses to partner with organizations to experiment, test, and develop opportunities. She says everyone has a different form of creativity and perspective, and now is the time to create a space for collaboration, especially because it does not have to cost much time and money. For more visit, Read More …

Operational Excellence Stack

This is a collection of 26 – Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Operational Excellence A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on Operational Excellence with a bit of Hoshin Kanri in the mix. Several people included are Art Bryne, Adam Zak, Ari Weinzweig and 23 others. Stacks are Read More …