Applying Six Sigma to become Best In Market

My podcast with Dr. Reidenbach was about achieving Best in Market Status. He has outlined this strategy in the book Best in Market where he details a process for assessing how organizations targeted product/markets define value and how this information can be delivered to key operational and strategic areas of their business. The Best in Read More …

The Rise of the Lean Machine Storybook

Move over Steve Jobs! Check out this presentation created by Claudio Perrone (a.k.a. Agile Sensei). He is an independent consultant based in Dublin, Ireland, committed to help organizations achieve phenomenal improvements — fast. He is well known for his experience and focus on transformational leadership, software architecture, and Lean-Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Read More …

3 ways the brain creates meaning

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/wPFA8n7goio” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”500″ grow=”yes”] Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, Read More …

A Look at Innovation, a Different Angle

This is one of the few books that I not only listened to it, but afterwards purchased the hard copy.Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others is simply a good book. The author of Borrowing Brilliance, David Kord Murray, has an impressive résumé. Not only is he Read More …

A Lean Accountant goes to Gemba, does yours?

Lean Accountants are active and a central part of a company’s operations. This is a transcription I had with Jim Huntzinger a leading authority in the world of Lean Accounting. Jim is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit.  6th Lean Accounting Summit…Lean Accounting Summit organizers Read More …

Lean your Marketing by Dominating with Customer Value

I have the opportunity to offer this book on my website at a low introductory price of $14.99. Dominating Markets with Value will show you how value driven, nationally known organizations have harnessed the power of customer value analysis through a systematic and logical process of customer value management. The book provides an approach to Read More …