robust [roh-buhst]: strongly or stoutly built. checklist [chek-list]: a list of items. Struggling to create a process that produces a quality end product every time? Something as simple as a checklist may be your starting point. It apparently has worked for hotels. If you’ve heard about Peter Pronovost, then you’ll know the value it has [...]
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 a trance at the horse and pony show a lot of companies produce. "Yes, oh [...]
John Shook at Lean Enterprise Institute says lean is "just what the doctor ordered" for 2009 and is hoping for a better year. Brian Buck expects creativity and innovation to arrive on the scene. Jon Miller talks about how Tom Vilsack might bring lean to the federal level (hooray!). Kevin Meyer suggests Toyota could use [...]
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 certification, it is definitely a “value add”. Here’s what was said in a recent audit: The investment in [...]
Great quote I just read in “Lean Enterprise Systems: Using IT for Continuous Improvement” authored by Steve Bell (I downloaded the pdf version, but can’t seem to remember from where right now): “Society has reached the point where one can push a button and be immediately deluged with technical and managerial information. This is all [...]
…and software can’t manage people. This is the tag-line for our Thrive product. Why? Because this is true. Software by itself typically adds no value to the process it is analyzing (this is a very scary thing for a software vendor to say!). It is the interaction with software…the entering of data, the analysis of [...]
Getting closer to my mantra instead of my mission statement. Guy Kawasaki often espouses the importance of having a mantra instead of a mission statement, and so does Andy Stanley. For the longest time I struggled to put into a brief mantra what it was that I was really setting out to do. I’m trying to [...]
This blog provides some useful info if you are a non-profit.
I LOVE this article. In my opinion brilliant. And I’m sure when I get around to reading it, I will love this book as well. Tom Peters talked about the author, Mark Hurst, on his blog today. Mark Hurst is the author of the book and founded the company Creative Good. The article deals primarily [...]
Admittedly, Lean Tech’s product Thrive is not for everyone. However, I have often encountered the sentiment that the business system or ERP is. This thought was echoed in an article I read by Michael Vizard this morning in Baseline magazine. He was talking about the disconnect that occurs at some companies in seeing the “relationship [...]
RT @Skowty: Going 2 spend some time talking @StartupIowa #Pella #StartupFair on @kniakrls w/ @veelhoeden and @leantech this morning. Stoked!Monday Jan 30 - 2:56pm