Lean 3P Design more Humanistic by Going Back to Nature

In the Lean Design we use a process that is called Lean 3P. One of the most contentious part of 3P is this idea of looking to nature, to try to find solutions to the problems you’re trying to solve. We begin by looking at all the value?adding steps. Then for each of those value?adding Read More …

One Page Project Management Podcast

In this Thursday edition of the Business901 Podcast, Mick Campbell co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International discusses the most recent book, The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper. This replaces the first book and has a section on Agile Project management. The One-Page Project Manager Read More …

Mixing Personal Kanban and Cross-Generational Collaboration

In next weeks ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas, one of the facilitators in our Strength-Based Organizational Change track is Barbara Ivey.  She will facilitate the breakouts on Personal Kanban and Cross-Generational Collaboration. Personal Kanban is a process popularized by the book, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life co-authored Read More …

No one is as Smart as all of Us

The ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas will focus on Leadership Development with three different tracks. Attendees will have the opportunity to choose between three different tracks; Problem Solving Leadership, Strength-Based Organizational Change and The Cultural Shift in Healthcare. The Strength-Based Organizational Change session is being hosted by Bob Petruska, Read More …

It all goes Back in the Box

I am a big Ken Blanchard fan and maybe even a bigger TEDx fan. Ken recently appeared at TEDx tp discuss Collaboration. His talks breaks down into three areas: if you meet someone who wants to accomplish something, and you want to accomplish something, the experience is meant to be dynamic Rely on the different Read More …