Brandon Brown: Toyota Kata (Part 1 of 2)

Brandon Brown delivers tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota Kata Coach 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 Read More …

Can a Lean Company become a Learning Org

When scaling companies, I always followed the thought that you needed core competencies that could be performed as standard work along with incremental improvement into your markets or through your product/services. However, this is just not about becoming more effective and efficient around your core; it is about exploring the edges of your product/services or Read More …

A Lean Approach to Sales Collaboration

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube I like to use the term EDCA (Explore-Do-Check-Act) learned from Graham Hill to designate the Explore aspect of Lean. I view it as more of Design Type thinking content that allows for that collaborative learning cycles with a customer. I added a twist to this by going Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Book Overview

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube This is a quick overview of a few of the books both old and new that have been written on applying continuous improvement (Lean and Six Sigma) in Sales and Marketing. CAP-Do (More Info): What makes CAP-Do so attractive is that it assumes we do not have Read More …

Startups & Entrepreneurship Stack

This is a collection of 30 – Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Startups & Entrepreneurship   A collection of Business901 Startups that includes Saul Kaplan, Alex Osterwalder, Gabriel Weinberg, and Laura Busche. A mixture of new-age thinking with a little sage advice. I ended up with 30 publications in Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Webinar

Lean Marketing hosted by SimpliLearn on November 18, 2015 | 10:30 am to 11:30 am CDT. Lean Sales and Marketing concept may differ from the more traditional approaches found in other parts of the Lean Enterprise. Its primary focus is not the discovery of waste but of process improvement with a very specific strategic intent; Read More …