I had a very open discussion with Dean Bliss, a Lean Healthcare Coach for the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and a board member of the Iowa Lean Consortium, what it takes to create and sustain these before mentioned initiatives. Dean assists healthcare organizations in learning and applying continuous improvement activities and philosophy. He is an original Read More …
Lean Sales and Marketing is just not another extension of Lean into another area of business. If you think that way, you will be marred into product dominant thinking. You must recognize Lean as the pathway into Service Dominant Logic Thinking (Vargo and Lusch (2006)). Lean is used as the vehicle to deliver effective and Read More …
John Hunter has been writing about management online since 1995. He has shared ideas on management via his blog, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, since 2005 and recently as the new author of the Dr. Deming blog hosted by the W.Edwards Deming Institute. In John’s new book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability, he looks at Read More …
Understanding Respect for People/Customers Most of us will agree when it comes down to the actual purchase decision, it is seldom the best functioning item that gets purchased. Rather, it is a combination of other factors including the other two legs of value; social and emotional. For example, it is why we choose a known Read More …
The fields of remote collaboration, global teams and managing wide-scale organizational change are becoming common place. Nancy Settle-Murphy appeared on the Business901 Podcast, Spanning the Globe for Team Success to discuss some of key components needed to lead these teams. Below is a transcription of the podcast. Nancy’s new book is Leading Effective Virtual Teams: Read More …
In the research paper, Relations between Lean Management and Organizational Structures, the authors came to this conclusion: Lean management can be a very effective management method, but, as the practice shows, it must be treated as a holistic approach directed to changing the whole company. Having the knowledge about the principles of the method, there Read More …