My First PDCA for Sales and Marketing

The other day I wrote a blog post, The Starting Point for Lean Sales and Marketing that briefly described how I would start introducing Lean to Sales and Marketing. The A3 was buried in a link and it was suggested that I create a blog post since it has received a good deal of attention Read More …

The Future of Lean with Dan Jones

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the noted experts in the Lean Community, Dan Jones.  Dan is a management thought leader and advisor on applying lean, process thinking to every type of business across the world. He is the founding Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy www.leanuk.org in the UK, dedicated to pushing Read More …

Does Lean create Innovative Companies?

Many people only view Lean as a methodology to reduce waste, improve flow and drive internal processes. Many have even hijacked the term customer and created “internal customers” and lose sight of the true customer and the marketplace. These companies do not recognize Lean as a business process that strengthens and grows a company through Read More …

Has Lean Thinking fallen short on the Demand Side

Lean Solutions was written several years ago expanding the principles of Lean to consumption. The authors, Womack and Jones detailed a Lean roadmap and ask companies to start providing the goods and services consumers actually want, when and where they wanted them and without burden to the consumer.  The authors provided compelling examples ranging from Read More …

Thinking Back from the Customer –Lean Summit 2011

Professor Daniel T Jones presents “Pushing the Frontiers: the next challenges for Lean Thinking” at the Lean Summit 2011. This video is an excellent demonstration of applications of Service Dominant Logic Thinking (Vargo and Lusch (2006). Daniel Jones is a management thought leader and advisor on applying lean, process thinking to every type of business Read More …

The Challenge of Lean with Dan Jones

Daniel Jones is a management thought leader and advisor on applying lean, process thinking to every type of business across the world. He is the founding Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy www.leanuk.org in the UK, dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean thinking and helping others with its implementation. Dan is my guest Read More …