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 …

Rapid Decision Making enabled thru Lean Accounting

Lean Accounting provides the strategic tools for lean management by focusing on visual shop floor measures for Rapid Decision Making; coupled with management accounting tools for longer term planning. Lean accounting is an integral part of the lean management system, as well as a vital tool for strategic decision making. My guest on the Business901 Read More …

Leading with Lean thru Accounting

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast was a great overview of Lean Accounting Read More …

Customer Value is an Input to your Company, not an Output

As I mentioned in a previous post, Six Sigma Discipline is Good for a Creative Process, accountants are seeing the value in getting Six Sigma and Marketing together. They see the use of the Six Sigma data collection and prioritization methods as a means to create predictable streams of revenue growth. This comes from developing Read More …

Meaningful Numbers w Thru-put Accounting

Dr. Charlene Spoede Budd was my guest on the Business901 Podcast titled Developing Predictive Measures with Throughput Accounting and as you would expect our discussion was about the Theory of Constraints Through-put Accounting methods and the application of the knowledge that we gain from this information. This is a transcription of the podcast. Dr. Budd Read More …

The Theory of Constraints in Services

The Business901 Podcast featured John Arthur Ricketts, a distinguished engineer at IBM Corporate Headquarters. As a consulting partner and technical executive, he has dealt with many services management issues, including those faced by clients in their own services businesses. His work in applied analytics led him to become a focal point on Theory of Constraints Read More …