Future of Lean Transcription

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the noted experts in the Lean Community, Dan Jones. This is a transcription of our podcast, The Future of Lean with Dan Jones. We spent a fair amount of time discussing Lean outside the four walls of the enterprise and how Lean interacts with the customer. Daniel Read More …

Lean Software & Systems

This was my presentation at the #LSSC12 Conference this year. It was not my typical Lean Sales and Marketing theme. Instead, I demonstrated what I have learned and applied from many of my podcast guests. Lean Software & Systems Conference – Business901 Presentation A couple of the reactions from my discussion on Twitter: @imbertti : Read More …

Individual Lean the Root Cause of Success

Can the principles of Lean be applied to your daily life?  Dan Markovitz, founder and owner of TimeBack Management certainly thinks so. He has developed a consultancy specializing in improving individual and organizational performance through the application of lean concepts. Dan has backed up his claim in his latest book,  A Factory of One: Applying Read More …

Where does a Customer Find Value in your Organization

Have you ever evaluated where your customer finds value within your company? In Lean you try to find the one best path – the value stream map. In the marketing, we have created the marketing funnel. However, Organizations can no longer feed products to customers, as I described in the blog post, Kill the Sales Read More …

A Teaching Resource for Design Thinking

Dr. Charles Burnette created an outline for teaching children Design Thinking. He freely shares this information on his website idesignthinking.com. He feels Design thinking is important to for children to learn. I happen to agree with him and his seven principles constitute the premise on which IDeSiGN is based. I stands for intending To intend Read More …

Sketching an important Leadership Tool

There are few faster, cheaper and more effective communication tools than the pen and paper. It’s easy, you can use it anywhere and anytime and it is one of the most effective collaboration tools that exist. You can start with a grand idea and instantly transform to the smallest, most minute detail. It is a Read More …