Everyone is dissatisfied with the pace of innovation – solutions that change the game don’t come fast enough. We look to the environment, and assign blame. We blame the tools, the process, the organization structure, and the technology itself. But the blame is misplaced. It is the innovators that govern......
If you know your shit, you have an obligation to behave that way: Do – don’t ask. Say, “I don’t know.” Wear the clothes you want. Tread water with Fear until she drowns. Walk softly – leave your big stick at home. Ask people what they think – let them......
You solved a big problem in a meaningful way; you made a big improvement in something important; you brought new thinking to an old paradigm; you created something from nothing. Unfortunately, the easy part is over. Your work created the new baseline, the new starting point, the new thing that......
More with more doesn’t cut it anymore, just not good enough. The behavior we’re looking for can be nicely described by the old TV game show Name That Tune, where two contestants competed to guess the name of a song with the fewest notes. They were read a clue that......
If you’re reading this you’ve probably survived the great recession. You had to do some radical stuff, but you pulled it off. You cut to the bone as demand fell off, but you managed to shed staff and capacity and kept your company alive. Congratulations. Amazing work. But now the......
With its strong focus on waste reduction of processes, lean has been a savior for those who’ve made it out of the great recession. But what’s next? I argue the next level of savings will come from adding a product focus to lean’s well-developed process focus. For the complete Assembly......
Mental walls are more powerful than physical ones. With physical walls you know where they start and end and know if you can bust them down. With mental walls, you’re not sure. With physical walls you know they exist – that they’re real. With mental walls, you’re not sure. With......
There’s a huge untapped source of profits out there – a virtual gold mine – with profit opportunities so large you can’t see them, and if you do see them, too large to believe. These profits larger than you’ve achieved with your traditional lean work. (Actually, what I’m talking about......
I will be running a half-day workshop on Systematic DFMA Deployment on June 13 in Providence, RI. The workshop will kick of BDI’s 2011 International Forum on Design for Manufacturing and Assembly and will focus on how to incorporate DFMA into your product development process. The Forum (June 14, 15)......
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