This year as a result of Dr. Deming, I had decided to dig into Systems Thinking more. I re-read The Fifth Discipline, which had been my introduction into Lean and Six Sigma. Being a business owner, I did not have a problem looking at the whole or as it later became known as viewing the Read More …
I am involved in several conferences each year, either in promotion, attending or speaking. I find many conference hosts are looking for that particular format, hot speaker or subject or a new venue to create a profitable event. Many of us look at our marketing the same way. Some of us call it a silver Read More …
Tellus Mater created this video that I found via a tweet by Robert Lusch (@RobertLusch) co-editor of The Service-Dominant Logic of Marketing. I believe that the message Tellus Mater sends is interesting. I can honestly say that I am not qualified to express an opinion on how valid it is. However, I find it similar Read More …
Why should our processes be cast in stone? Beyond Agile co-author Maritza van den Heuvel is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast. She is the author of the Becoming an Agile Family blog where she writes about the ways her family uses Personal Kanban to navigate work and life. You can also find Read More …
Brian was a protege of W. Edwards Deming and has received the Deming Medal, the Shewhart Medal, the Hunter Award, the Ott Award, and the Wilcoxon Prize. In addition, he was one of the original nine judges of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and one of the originators of the Minitab statistical software system. Read More …
The ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas will focus on Leadership Development with three different tracks. As an anchor sponsor, Jeremy Bowen of Snyder’s-Lance will kick off the conference with a talk on Intentional Leadership. Afterwards, attendees will have the opportunity to choose between three different tracks; Problem Solving Leadership, Read More …