Business Improvement thru Quality, the Juran Way

I had the pleasure of discussing the mission and expertise of the Juran Institute, Inc. with their CEO, Joe DeFeo. The Institute provides research and pragmatic solutions to enable organizations from any industry to learn the tools and techniques for managing quality and performance excellence. As a result of this discussion, I think you will Read More …

PK Flow – What is it and Why Use It? eBook

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, PK Flow – What is it and Why Use It? with co-authors Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria Barry of the book, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life. PK Flow – What is it & Why Use it? Personal Kanban is neither a prescription nor a plan. Read More …

Transferring your Value stream Map to a Kanban board

In this video, Alan Shalloway  of Net Objectives describes the process of mapping a value stream to a Kanban board and why both are important in improving business-driven software development. Alan does a nice job in the video simplifying the process of Value Stream Mapping for non-Lean organizations. He also converts the map to a Read More …

Call it Building a Lean Sales and Marketing Machine

David Skok, a five time serial entrepreneur turned VC, at Matrix Partners presented this at a HubSpot Webinar last week together with Mike Volpe, the VP of Marketing at HubSpot.This video is 60 minutes long and well worth the time. A little promotional for Hubspot but in my opinion Hubspot is a quality product and Read More …

Using A3 to introduce Services Video

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. As a result of discussing Read More …

The New Knowledge Management Game eBook

Jack Vinson, a Knowledge Management and Theory of Constraints expert, was my guest on the Business901 Podcast, The New Knowledge Management Game. This is a transcription of the podcast with four pages of additional material that was cut from the podcast.  The New Knowledge Management Game Jack has been a knowledge management advocate and technology Read More …