Kaizen Plan, Kaizen Event, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Rapid Kaizen = Kaizen Week
Friday, December 25th, 2009This week the Business901 blog will center our theme on Kaizen, one of the most often used Lean words but practically ambiguity has set in on the term. Kaizen stands for Continuous improvement, the Kai to break apart, to change and the Zen to study or to improve. Recently, the Kaizen Event and/or Kaizen Blitz [...]
Your Value Stream Map is not your Project Plan
Sunday, December 13th, 2009Value Stream Mapping comes from the Toyota process flow improvement tools and involves identifying all the steps both value added and non-value added currently involved in providing a product or service. It will create a visual representation of that value stream or the work in process. It establishes a common language among us and provides [...]
Why an Influencer Diagram vs. a Marketing Calendar
Monday, December 7th, 2009I always wondered. Marketing people talk about it all the time, and it must be from the days of buying so much print media, television and radio spots. For the life of me, I have marketing calendars and here is what I have done with them.
Deskpad to take notes. Video on how to create one. [...]