Can Change be Managed like a Project?

David J. Anderson is a thought leader in managing effective technology development. He leads a consulting, training and publishing business dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing sustainable evolutionary approaches for management of knowledge workers. David is CEO of Lean-Kanban University, a business dedicated to assuring the quality of training in Lean and Kanban throughout the Read More …

Becoming an Entrepreneur

The Purdue Foundry focuses Purdue’s vast resources to accelerate and improve advancement of Purdue ideas and innovations that are changing the world. My podcast guest next week is Juliana Casavan a Training Manager at Purdue Foundry where she creates and facilitates workshops that concentrate on first step of looking at a business and helping them Read More …

Overcoming an Unmovable Obstacle in Kata

This particular video, Overcoming an Obstacle is one of a 7-part video series with Brandon Brown on the Toyota Kata where we touched upon some of the finer points versus staying at the 20,000 foot level.  Toyota Kata is documented in Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results. The Read More …

Is the Role between Product Development and Sales Changing?

Matt Barcomb (Twitter: @mattbarcomb) has over 18 years of experience as a product development leader that takes a pragmatic, systems approach to change. He partners with organizations to help leadership teams develop and deploy strategy, optimize product management and development, and evolve traditional HR functions into modern talent development practices. Matt will be presenting this Read More …

Positive Organizational Development Tools

Sarah Lewis and her organization, Appreciating Change aim is to achieve whole system change, with positive and creative solutions working through psychological processes such as emotional engagement, the creative imagination, core values and key strengths. These approaches minimizes the challenges of resistance to change and getting buy-in.  In the podcast we introduce Sarah’s new Positive Read More …

The 5 Rs of Growth

For a business to scale, you need new customers. Where do you find them? In the past, we looked at marketing to the masses and in hope that we will find a likely candidate and narrow them down through discovering how much pain they are in relative to our product offering. Some may call this Read More …