The Role of Sales and Marketing is changing in every organization. The success of Lean on the operational side has influenced management to seek the same culture across the entire organization to include sales and marketing. They aspire for a true Lean Enterprise. How, do you achieve this? Do the principles of continuous improvement and Read More …
It seems Lean is more popular than Six Sigma in healthcare. Is that true and can you tell me your take on it? – jd Jay: Well sure. In healthcare, one of the things that the joint commission which regulates and certify a lot of hospitals on is patient flow. So part of the job Read More …
Is Lean the umbrella and then you attack it with Six Sigma projects or is it mostly Lean? Or, mostly Six Sigma? What’s the relationship between the two? -jd Jason Kilgore: Well, from a project management standpoint and I have to try a little bit of project management I by nature because of my background Read More …
A force is defined as a push or pull that changes an object’s state of motion or causes the object to deform. In nature, there are four fundamental forces (courtesy of the University of Tenn): The strong interaction is very strong but very short-ranged. It acts only over ranges of order 10-13 centimeters and is Read More …
Joe: You described a variety of disciplines, characteristics that you must have. If you had to single one of them out, is there one that’s more important or are all of them equally important? Related Podcast and Transcription: Are You a Qualified Entrepreneur? Randy Nelson: I’ll say financial, and I’ll say it for a couple Read More …
How has Lean Startup principles change your thinking about the basic Agile principles or are they one and the same? -jd Jeff Gothelf: Usually we’re treading into a conversation where I haven’t seen enough public discourse on it yet. The conversation is why are people hiring Agile today, versus why people hired Agile 10 years Read More …