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 …
Yuval Yeret was a guest on the Business901 podcast, Yeret on Agile and Kanban and below is a transcription of the podcast. Yuval is a practicing Agile and Kanban consultant/coach for AgileSparks in Herzelyia, Israel. He coaches individuals and organizations in their path to Agility and Engineering excellence, focusing on Scrum, Lean, and Agile Engineering Read More …
As Dr. Balle said, “Toyota didn’t become number one by having lower manufacturing costs, they became number one by making cars people bought.” Dr. Michael Ballé is a business researcher and consultant and has studied lean transformation for the past 15 years. He is Associate Researcher at Télécom ParisTech and the co-founder of the French Read More …
It is not a disguise it is reality. Your marketing department should be investing many of their resources in capturing and building a structure for knowledge management. It is the core competence of your organization. If you look at the sole purpose of a Lean Marketing department it is disseminating pertinent information to the customer Read More …
After interviewing Dr. Michael Balle for an upcoming podcast and a short video series, we continued our discussion. This is a short outtake on Lean Thinking and a few responses on his thoughts about Toyota. Related Information: Dr. Michael Balle is the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute The Ultimate Sales and Marketing Tool Read More …
At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh talks about a future of business that’s about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries — from music to cars — show how close we are to this meshy future. Great Line: “We are more connected Read More …