Using Right Brain Thinking in Business

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 this transcription of the Business901 podcast, Are right brain thinkers better leaders? Using a Right Brain in Business Tim is a University of Kentucky Certified Lean Master, a Goldratt Institute Theory of Read More …

Continuously improving thru PDCA

The Systems2win Company provides business process improvement tools and training to companies all over the globe. People are provided with easy-to-use fill-in-the-blanks Excel templates that come with self-help online training to improve the speed and reduce the cost of every step of your project. Dean was my guest on the podcast and we discussed how Read More …

Lean Marketing House – A3 Report

This A3 report is a high level look at building a Lean Marketing System. I created this to accompany my presentation at the ASQ Columbus Conference. You can develop this A3 for a customer or a business segment. The instructions are below. Lean Marketing House – A3 Layout A3 Instructions: Complete the customers name and Read More …

Learn the One Page Project Manager at Shingo Prize Conference

I have been a big fan of the The One-Page Project Manager for many years. In fact, the author Clark Campbell reminded me in a recent phone call that I was the first one to write a review on the first book. Since then, he has added two more books to the collection: The One Read More …

Standards in a Lean Enterprise

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 …