Control Points

Jamie Flinchbaugh is a co-founder and partner of the Lean Learning Center in Novi, Mich., and brings successful and varied experiences of Lean transformation as a leader, practitioner and facilitator.  Under Jamie’s leadership, the Lean Learning Center has become in just four years one of the most recognized and premier Lean providers in the world.  Read More …

Lean Thinking on Value Enhancement

Adam Zak is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. Adam excels at identifying and attracting business leaders who are experts in lean continuous improvement, Read More …

Ellen Domb on TRIZ

Ellen Domb is a TRIZ expert, co-author of the book, Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition, and founder of the PQR Group, a TRIZ training & consulting. Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Related Podcast: Can You Use Inventive Problem Solving Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. Read More …

Why Sales Should Never be a Process

Processes are good, right? They capture what we do well, and allow average people to do better. The argument may be that they prevent exceptional people from being exceptional but we are looking to be an exceptional organization. There are few disciplines that has seen more failed efforts to create a process than the sales Read More …

TRIZ – For People Who Struggle with Open Innovation

Prepare yourself to start looking at TRIZ from a few different viewpoints. Next week’s Business901 Podcast is with co-author Ellen Domb, Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition, and founder of the PQR Group, a TRIZ training & consulting. Besides the book, they offer a good way to start  Read More …

Trumpet of Smarter Solutions

Forrest Breyfogle discusses his new book The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System.  and  the Integrated Enterprise Excellence. The IEE provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. It has not Read More …