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Re: Can Studying Music help your Lean Enterprise

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:19:55 -0000

Ignacio, thanks for the comment. Yes, depending on length and content, I would consider including it as a guest blog post. I have another podcast with a composer and intend to transcribe them. I would also consider combing those podcasts and your comments in one of the eBooks that I post. Just do a rough draft so I can see content at first and see if there si a good match. Thanks

Re: Did Dr. Deming and Peter Drucker ever meet?

Joseph T. Dager — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:49:28 -0000

Would that had been a great conversation to record? It would remind me of two great musicians improvising.

Re: When Launching A Minimally Viable Product Is A Bad Idea

Joseph T. Dager — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:16:28 -0000

Interesting post and I have to admit one of the few that will add some contrarian thinking to the Lean Startup. I agree with your post that the Lean Startup has to have the correct "product fit" to enable its methodology to work. The reception will be interesting as the Lean Startup tries to venture into more established companies. My belief is that the Lean Startup does not apply to all design/innovation, but rather when the cost of failure is minimal.

Many are looking for this silver bullet for innovation - to be like Apple. But what they forget is that Apple success is built upon not so much disruptive innovation as everyone wants to believe but on incremental improvement and focus. They took a simple platform (iPod), expanded through use (iTunes). Improved with a Smart Phone expanded through use with APPS. Improved Mobile technology with the iPad and expanded use with Apps and greater access to Wi-Fi. This being said, you can take the entire Apple product line and lay it on your kitchen table - Focus. No MVP, nothing disruptive within the confines of Apple but certainly disruptive to the rest of the world.

The Lean startup works for small entrepreneurial firms with little cost associated with failure. Beak-through thinking, disruptive innovation can still be done through methods more outward facing and more focused on customer needs such as methodologies like Design Thinking and Service Design. Good design incorporates prototyping, customer feedback, development loops, etc. Eric's spin on the Lean Startup is interesting and spot on to the market he has pitched. We have much we can learn from him but thinking that organizations and customers are ready for this model when there are more productive and proven methods available is challenging.

Re: Business Processes as Value Networks

Joseph T. Dager — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:44:01 -0000

Reply – Sean, take a look at her website and print the map out and just try it. I never understood it till I did that ( took me a couple of times)/

Re: Becoming an Agile Family thru Kanban

Joseph T. Dager — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:55:08 -0000

This is a link that may help you. Patty is a great resource and her Flicker page is full of examples. http://nothingisoutofreach....

Re: Moving from Product to Customer Centric in 4 Steps

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:29:03 -0000

I don't mind negative comments, I welcome them and try to learn from them. However, most people responding to a blog post will leave comments rather than
use another person's site to drive traffic to theirs. I find it
borderline spam and unethical. However, with that being said I approved
your comment.

Having free as part of your e-mail address made me somewhat hesitant in approving the first comment.

Re: Moving from Product to Customer Centric in 4 Steps

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:40:48 -0000

I agree Doug and thanks for the comment. As a twitter remark said about the post; "If it was only this easy." Your points are well taken, an accurate assessment. I looked at this post as a starting point, nothing more.

As far as user-conceptualized, I will again agree with you. I have a tendency to lean that way. How would you phrase it different to make it more customer centric?

Re: Become a Learning Organization through Relentless Reflection

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:34:29 -0000

You should be at my Lean Sales and Marketing Workshop Wednesday!! Here is a link to a presentation that this blog post was derived from http://www.slideshare.net/b...

Re: Masters of Design Thinking Presentation

Joseph T. Dager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:37:33 -0000

Ralf, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Never intended to overlook or give credit where credit is not due. In the slide presentation, credit is given to Graham on slides 26-30 and was just trying to acknowledge it.

I congratulate for your participation. Wonderful presentation.

Re: Is the Balance Scorecard being revived?

Joseph T. Dager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:53:49 -0000

Luiz, thanks for the comments and the added perspective. My thoughts are an effort to start viewing the Balanced Scorecard from more of an external perspective versus an internal perspective.

What does "Market" and "we learn and innovate.." mean? Is it from an internal perspective looking out?

Re: Is the Balance Scorecard being revived?

Joseph T. Dager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:42:59 -0000

aprove

Re: Customer Flow is not Linear or Controllable

Joseph T. Dager — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:13:06 -0000

Thanks for the comment. Everyone has their own method of engagement and we struggle managing them all. By tool usage may be an interesting way to segment. I wonder if we do not do that already by the way we gather information and as a result create more work by trying to segment what is already segmented by the tools.

Interesting proposition, is this along the same line as your thoughts?

Re: Lean Software & Systems Conference

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:25:41 -0000

I am speaking so I will see you there.

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Re: If less than 1% of companies are successful with Lean

Joseph T. Dager — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:22:58 -0000

I have to agree, not sure what Dr. Liker means by the <1% number - but what is a failure? If my ideal weight loss is 20 pounds and I lose 10, did I fail to implement the program totally? Am I considered one of those less than 1% failures?

Re: Are your Managers managing Technology? Or…

Joseph T. Dager — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:42:18 -0000

Terri, I did enjoy your approach. I found it very straightforward and practical. Thanks for the podcast.

Re: Value can no longer be defined as What a Customer will pay for!

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0000

I agree pricing still matters. But for clarification, my concern is that statement hinders the thinking to move service to the forefront. We get lost in the dribble of features and benefits which eventually all become commoditized.

Re: Creating Flow with Don Reinertsen

Joseph T. Dager — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:57:53 -0000

I apologize for only having a player in the blog post. I appreciate your candor and expressing yourself honestly, Mr. Public. Here is the download link: http://bit.ly/uNFiqU

Re: Lean or Six Sigma which fork in the road do you take?

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:24:16 -0000

Thanks for the comments.

I think Six Sigma made a bad choice in trying to widen and become more inclusive by branding itself with Lean. They choose to widen their circle of influence by becoming Lean Six Sigma but their journey was always about creating a Six Sigma structure.

When I took Lean Six Sigma Courses I looked at several institutions,
online and offline. It was funny that most of the courses hardly
included Lean in the curriculum. When they did, it was a brief outline
to discuss 5S. The training process mimics most of the thinking in the
Six Sigma world it seems.

Six Sigma was designed to be a breakthrough problem solving methodology backed by statistical data. Why they did not champion what it was meant for, I will never understand.

Re: Lean or Six Sigma which fork in the road do you take?

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:04:41 -0000

Your observations are greatly appreciated and your last line is particularly insightful. My debate is not deciding one over the other it is about the journey you decide to take.

The blog post was actually written in response to the overall Six Sigma community viewing Lean as a methodology for only waste reduction and flow. I have always differed with that viewpoint and the more I have come to understand Lean, the more my differences have widen.

Tom, you are absolutely correct though, it is about the journey.

Re: The Disney Way

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:16:56 -0000

apporve

Re: Brilliant – Learn by Doing

Joseph T. Dager — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:15:52 -0000

@Patty, I thought of you when I wrote this and just about sent you the link direct. It is amazing what I am learning from these non-engaged kids these days!

Re: Lean Knowledge Work - Harvard Business Review

Joseph T. Dager — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:12:01 -0000

I think Lean has been applied to knowledge work successfully and in a large way. Lean Software development is nothing more than knowledge work. It uses Lean extensively and has made subsets of it coined Agile, Scrum, Kanban throughout the world and in most software organizations.

In fact, Dr. Jim Womack one of the originators of Lean when asked if Lean was a knowledge mechanism stated, "Well, of course. That’s what the whole idea is. It’s an experimental process that you try things. They are right. Deming most famously captured it in
PDCA. But again, Deming didn’t exactly think of science. Hey, let’s give Galileo a little bit of credit."

He went on but the whole concept of Kaizen, Lean, TPS is the capturing and expansion of knowledge. There are other applications of Lean in knowledge field such as Innovation, Marketing, and now the Lean Start-up that are all based on PDCA the fundamental tool of Lean. So, yes Lean is all those things you stated but not to look at it from a Knowledge Creation view is fundamentally flawed.

Re: Lean is not a revolution, Lean is solve one thing and prove one thing!

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:43:08 -0000

The greatness in that statement is exactly how simple it is.. Thanks for the comment.

Re: Will the Mvp crush the Lean Startup?

Joseph T. Dager — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:28:37 -0000

I think there is better ways. Maybe, after the click you explain what you are doing and give them the opportunity to be the first to download the beta version or something. I just think people/customers time should not be subject to your testing without consent. Their time is as valuable as yours..

Re: Improve Communication – Have more meetings?

Joseph T. Dager — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:02:12 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. It seems very close to the meeting structure they recommend in Agile Software development but in a more "Enterprisal" way. The book is a fun read (listen).