Implementing a TOC Supply Chain Solution

The Business901 podcast featured  Amir Schragenheim, President of Inherent Simplicity, a software firm specializing in TOC software for Production & Distribution environments. Inherent Simplicity is the exclusive software supplier for Production & Distribution software to Goldratt Consulting, Eli Goldratt’s consulting firm, in their Viable Vision strategic projects. Mr. Schragenheim is a regular speaker at the Read More …

Your Internal Marketing Constraint is still Important

Finding your internal marketing constraint is still important. Most people consider that their constraint in marketing is the number of prospects and in today’s economy it is very true. I believe that places an even great emphasis on managing your Work in Process or prospects. It does little good to increase prospects if you are Read More …

Updated the Lean Marketing House

Updated the Lean Marketing House with a short video that shows the utilization of Value Stream Marketing and the Marketing Kanban.  A couple of glitches in the transition of slides. This is the first time I used MS Powerpoint 2010 to record within the program.

How Marketing Creates Value – Rackham

Neil Rackham author of SPIN Selling, (what I consider one of the top books ever written on selling) discusses how marketing has to create value. As much as I write about Value Stream Marketing, it is always great to listen to the slant than an expert like Rackham puts on it.  In Rackham fashion, he Read More …

Story of Going Lean in Healthcare: On the Mend

This past weekend I finished up reading On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry. I started the book one morning over a cup of coffee and it was either a large cup of coffee or a very engaging book. I noticed a craving for a 2nd cup after 75 pages. Read More …

Kanban at Xerox eBook

I had 2 experts, Michael Curry and Rob Piersielak of the Xerox Corporation on the Business901 podcast to discuss Kanban. I felt that giving my readers and listeners a perspective on the traditional form of Kanban would be interesting. We stayed on track through the podcast but wandered off for a moment to discuss Lean Read More …