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Live from Chicago! It’s Lean 2008
All setup for Lean Tech’s first trade show. At the Marriott in Schaumberg, IL for Lean Manufacturing 2008: Lean Tools for Maintenance & Reliability. Here’s my booth! Thanks to Tom Flynn of...
View ArticleThrive software referenced in ISO audit in a positive light!
Had to add “in a positive light” because being mentioned in an ISO audit may not be a good thing, but in this case it definitely was. For those wondering about how Thrive can support your ISO...
View ArticleFord makes BOLD move
Ford declined the bailout. Gutsy move, and makes them stand out from the other two in the Big 3. Also, makes the cartoon in this post look a little different.
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Don’t wait for recovery, lead the recovery
"We’re cutting R & D." "We have money right now, we’re just not spending any of it." (something I heard from a potential client of mine in the last few months) A VP I was speaking to at a large...
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Alright, enough with the jargon already, just tell me where it hurts!
About to go on a rant…a rant about marketing speak. I guess this isn’t the first time I’ve done this. I guess what is probably frustrating for me is that seemingly a lot of people swoon and end up in...
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Not interested in shoes, how about pizza?
This post was inspired by my wife and "On being nimble versus visionary" over at the Learning About Lean blog. Now is certainly a time in the business environment to be flexible. To be adaptable. To...
View ArticleProblem Solving 101
Dan Roam of "The Back of the Napkin Blog" discusses a new book on his blog called Problem Solving 101 by Ken Watanabe. The book was originally written in Japanese, but after great success in Japan...
View ArticleThings are looking up: a Friday roundup
Seems to me that “Depression 2.0†never happened, and probably isn’t likely to. On the Forbes DigitalRules blog, Twenty Reasons for Optimism. On the Value Acceleration blog, Mitch has noticed...
View ArticleHeads up, your business may be drowning
My friend Sam Duregger (@duregger) pointed me to an article about the obsessive-ness people have developed with their smartphones. The article opens with a story about a man who was so engaged with his...
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Value separation
How do you as an individual, “be different� As a company? How do you create value that stands out from others providing your services? And if your services fall in the same category as others,...
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