Timothy W. Fowler (also known as The Right Brain) is CEO of BusinessLeadership.com. He details numerous process improvement efforts utilizing right-brain dominant-skills in the Business901 podcast and answered a few questions I had… Specifically what is Right Brain problem-solving? How can right brain thinking help business leaders? Do you want a whole group of right Read More …
This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, Lean Coaching & Learning with Jeff Liker with Dr. Jeffrey Liker on Coaching Lean. Dr. Liker is the author of The Toyota Way Fieldbook and the upcoming book, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement (Book release date is April 22nd, Podcast will be later this month). Liker Read More …
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at Read More …
The secret to connecting with consumers in a fragmented, chaotic marketplace, then, lies in how businesses collaborate with customers. WIKIBRANDS: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace (McGraw-Hill; January 2011) by Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover builds on a breakthrough, multimillion-dollar marketing research program initiated by Don Tapscott, technology guru and author of Grown Up Read More …
Lean technology has now evolved from the manufacturing floor to the whole enterprise. Many companies have found real value in applying the fundamental concepts of Lean throughout the organization. The lean concepts of Kaizen, PDCA and the tools such as Pareto Charts, 5 Why’s and even Poka Yoke are commonplace. However, the concept of Standard Read More …
I have struggled for many years with a personal management system and have spent most of my adult life waffling between the original 7 Habits planning system and countless others. Using David Allen’s, Getting Things Done and his MSO Outlook attachment was the longest I stayed away from the Covey system. I eventually went back Read More …