Archive for Kaizen
There is no Team in Kaizen
Posted by: | CommentsThe Friday Video Series continues with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. The next series of videos has a central theme of Kaizen. Dr. Balle starts out the program with a statement that floored me, Kaizen is profoundly individualistic.
Dr. Balle is a multiple Shingo Prize winner as an author of the The Gold Mine
Related Information:
Lean Thinking Perspectives from Dr. Michael Balle
A Gemba Talk with Womack on Lean
Kaizen
Lean is not a revolution, Lean is solve one thing and prove one thing!
Views on Lean IT with Dr. Michael Balle
Posted by: | CommentsLean 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.
As a result of discussing a Lean Enterprise with Dr. Michael Balle, I asked him about his thoughts on Lean IT.
Dr. Michael Ballé is a business researcher and consultant and has studied lean transformation for the past 15 years. He is Associate Researcher at Télécom ParisTech and the co-founder of the French Lean Institute (www.institut-lean-france.fr) and the Project Lean Enterprise (www.lean.enst.fr). He coaches CEOs and senior executives in using lean to radically improve their businesses’ performances and establish lean cultures.
Related Information:
Creating Flow with Don Reinertsen
Understand Scrum, Understand Implementing PDCA
Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development
The differences in Lean and Agile
Better Communication take the focus off yourself
Posted by: | CommentsDrew Kugler is now in his fourth decade of helping people and organizations around the world make sustainable progress in developing their willingness to work together more productively. As Founder of the Kugler Company, he works with executives and professionals on the never-ending issues of communication, leadership, and collaboration. Clients from all walks of industry and non profit fields review and refer to his work as discomforting and, at the same time, refreshing, practical, and inspiring.
The conversations you make is what is important. It’s not about the mechanics, it is about the belief and connections. Drew says the path to better communication is based on two principles, which are:
- Find your place (belief) and passion to speak.
- Curiosity of what others think and take the focus off yourself.
He makes a great case for the The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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Your Value Network Participants; Who are they?
My Stab at the Lean (Agile) Marketing Manifesto Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing
Value Stream Mapping your Sales Team
Can you be talented enough on your own?
What you can Learn from the Military on Cadence
Kanban Communication
