John Shook, author of the landmark book, Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process said in response, to the basic question “What is an A3?”: “The most basic definition of an A3 would be a P-D-C-A storyboard or report, reflecting Toyota’s way of capturing the PDCA process on one sheet of paper. But the Read More …
One of the best things about developing a Marketing Kanban is it allows you to create a separate cadence for each marketing segment. The old saying is Different Strokes for Different Folks. Why should marketing be any different? The Value Stream Marketing diagram symbolizes exactly how important a cadence is. I use a typical Scrum Read More …
Robert Martichenko, co-author of Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream was the guest on the Business901 Podcast. Robert is CEO and Founder of LeanCor, the only Third Party Logistics provider (3PL) wholly dedicated to the application of lean principles throughout the supply chain’s functions. Building on 15+ years of experience, Robert Martichenko created LeanCor to drive Read More …
The Business901 podcast that featured Tracey Richardson and her discussion on Problem Solving was one of my top viewed podcasts this year. One of the topics we covered was the 5 Y process. I asked the question: Joe: One of the great tools of Lean is the “Five Whys” to get to root cause. Can Read More …
Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame tweeted (Jim is @ourfounder on Twitter): All Kanban practitioners should really learn the true meaning of flow. awesome video! When I reviewed the video I kept coming back to Kanban by David Anderson and his definition of Bootstrapping a Kanban. David discusses that every Kanban needs a beginning and Read More …
What keeps your attention? As a small business owner do you find yourself struggling to stay on top of your marketing, always something else to do? I would recommend to establish an effective marketing program that you create a game out of it. Creating a visual process with your Marketing Kanban can effectively do that Read More …