Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. He is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives and also can be found on twitter @alshalloway. Alan is the primary author Read More …
All of us want to be customer-centric? Are your products and organization structured to be customer-centric? In the book, Designing Your Organization: Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges, the authors discuss the differences between being product-centric and customer centric. Listen to what co-author Amy Kates says.. Adapted from the book, I Read More …
This is an interview with David Garvin and Amy Edmondson, Professors, Harvard Business School. Learning organizations generate and act on new knowledge. The ability to do this enables companies to stay ahead of change and the competition. This is the the link to the PDF of article that is discussed in the interview, Is Yours Read More …
Steven C. Wilson, one of the leading Lean Six Sigma trainers in the state of Iowa has released a new program, Data Driven Problem Solving. The entire program can be downloaded as a PDF and MP3 on IowaQualityTraining.com. Data Driven Problem Solving includes a 100 page book with over 4 hours of audio. In addition, Read More …
In the LinkedIn, Association for Manufacturing Excellence Group there has been a discussion started about this presentation where they suggest that a standard is more like a target condition, and that the only way to maintain gains is to keep improvement moving forward. Their thoughts, hence the slideshow is that PDCA is better served by Read More …
Following The Lean Startup Principles of Build, Measure, Learn, I am introducing a MVP version of the Lean Marketing Board Game which surprisingly is not based on the Lean Startup but instead my book the Lean Marketing House. I really don’t teach Build, Measure, Lean and the Pivot, I just stick to the old PDCA Read More …