Common Thread of Design, Service, Lean

The subject of Design Thinking and Service Design has become more and more prevalent in my thought process recently and many find those words somewhat fuzzy type thinking. But it is really targeted at people that want to become more humanistic in their way of thinking and from my viewpoint their sales and marketing process. Read More …

Lean Agile Software Train, part 1

Dean Leffingwell author of Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) was the guest on the Businss901 podcast. After reading this book, I thought it was an outstanding contribution to improving the agile team and environment. One Amazon reviewer categorized it as  “The organization of the Read More …

Improvement Sales and Marketing Toolset

It’s tough to implement a philosophy. Most of us whether we care to admit it or not were introduced to Lean, Six Sigma and even Design Thinking through a set of tools. I have written two posts on this subject, a guest blog post on Tim McMahon’s Lean Journey blog titled, Lean Sales and Marketing Read More …

Mindmap on Writing Well

Not all the time do I get the opportunity to create a Mindmap on an audio book but there have been a few special ones that I have. It usually occurs on the 2nd listen since I typically am listening to them while I am driving or walking the dog.  Well this one has been Read More …

Virtual Organizations will change the Org chart

It may take a while to get there but the organizations that start making the change to “Virtual-ality” will have the best talent and a hidden asset, better ways to communicate with your customer. Dorian Selz’s companies are great examples of what could be deemed virtual organizations. Flat hierarchies, less management, geographically dispersed teams are Read More …

Individual Kaizen and handling blame!

Individual Kaizen is very powerful when you can let go of assigning blame. This is part of the Business901 video Series with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. This series of videos continues with a central theme of Kaizen. Dr. Balle is a multiple Shingo Prize winner as an author Read More …