A short introduction by Maria Elena-Stopher, describes lean transformation at the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, and shares lessons learned in Lean applied to federal government processes. Full one-hour video is available for purchase through the Maryland World Class Consortia. Is this process doable on a national level, a lot of people think Read More …
Cisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork. An excellent representation of? how to implement teamwork and collaboration while still reaping the effectiveness and efficiency. Some of Cisco’s best practices were studied by NASA and here are a few of the recommendations Read More …
The Friday Video Series continues with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. This series of videos continues with a central theme of Kaizen. In the beginning of the video we discuss several resources to learn more about individual Kaizen and in the last 2 minutes discuss how Kaizen plays a Read More …
This seems an appropriate post this week since there was big hullabaloo about a certain App that claimed certain features and did not deliver. If they intended it to be a minimum viable product (Mvp), let’s just say there was more MINIMUM than viable in the product. Though it was discovered and bantered about the Read More …
In a recent Business901 Podcast, Transforming Ordinary Teams to Extraordinary, Geoff Bellman co-author of Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results discussed what makes a great team. Geoff discussed the 8 points that they found common in those teams and how you can use them to improve your chances of creating a extraordinary team. Read More …
There is a changing emphasis on customer interaction and the importance of embracing uncertainty in your organization. In an interview in the MIT Sloan Management Review with Michael Schrage on Value-Creation, Experiments and Why IT does Matter, he stated: “The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis. You Read More …