Rapid Decision Making enabled thru Lean Accounting
Lean Accounting provides the strategic tools for lean management by focusing on visual shop floor measures for Rapid Decision Making; coupled with management accounting tools for longer term planning....
View ArticleA Lean Accountant goes to Gemba, does yours?
Lean Accountants are active and a central part of a company’s operations. This is a transcription I had with Jim Huntzinger a leading authority in the world of Lean Accounting. Jim is the president and...
View ArticleValue Stream thru Accountancy
In this eBook, we discussed how accountants need to become an integral part of the other departments. No longer can accountants only relay past financial data. They need to participate in the Value...
View ArticleThe Lean Thinker on Value Enhancement
The guest on the Business901 podcast was Adam Zak (@leanthinker), founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of...
View ArticleIs your marketing concentrated in area that makes a difference?
Identifying your customer segments is imperative in your future marketing efforts. If you have not identified those segments well, you will be discounting, providing unpaid services and minimizing...
View ArticleHow Lucky are you with Pricing?
This week we are reviewing different pricing strategies culminating with our podcast, The Death of List Price featuring Rob Doctors, lead author of the book, Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price...
View ArticleTraditional vs. Emerging Thoughts on Pricing
In the 1990s, we were led by the process methodologies of Lean, Theory of Constraints and Six Sigma. Better, Faster, Cheaper was the mantra. The goal was to gain a disproportionate advantage by...
View ArticleThe Death of List Price
Rob Doctors was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, The Irrelevancy of List Price. this is a transcription of the podcast. Rob is a co-author of Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price and the...
View ArticleLean Leadership Workshop
Lean Frontiers, Indianapolis, IN based, is known for producing the high quality, focused Lean Workshops. This fall (October 2-3, 2012) they are hosting the lean workshop, Lean Leadership presented by...
View ArticleSales and Service Planning with PDCA
Many of us use different planning instruments and schedulers. Kanban being one of the most familiar methods to readers of this blog. In the last several months, I have written about the Last Planner®...
View ArticleA Lean Practitioner
Ken Rolfes of KDR Associates, has spent more than 30 years in public and private companies that design, manufacture, and market technically based products for the medical device, industrial product and...
View ArticleManaging Value Streams thru Accounting
An excerpt from my interview of Ross Maynard. Ross has worked as a coach and consultant with a wide range of British and European organizations for over 20 years. Entire Transcription and Podcast:...
View ArticleCan Lean Accounting help Drive Market Share?
One of the true experts in the Lean Accounting world is Jim Huntzinger. He has over twenty years experience developing Lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and...
View ArticleDo You Know the Cost of Your Customers?
I think it would be safe to say that in traditional Lean Practices, the notion of Product/Goods Dominant Logic still prevails. The opposite, of course, is Service Dominant Logic. From that tradition,...
View ArticleIs Lean, HR’s path to the Leadership Table?
We are in the age of flatter organization structure coupled with cross-discipline teams making it more complex to get things done. This difficulty has led to a newer style leadership that we may call...
View ArticleDifference in Traditional vs Lean Strategic Thinking
As a preview to the upcoming Lean Accounting Summit, Orry Fiume will describe the difference between traditional and lean strategic thinking, based on a new book, The Lean Strategy, that he co-authored...
View ArticleContinuous Improvement Huddles and Metrics Workshop
A half-day day workshop on September 13th after the Lean People Development Summit, held September 11-12, Jean Cunningham will facilitate a session on Continuous Improvement Huddles and Metrics. The...
View ArticleGuilty of Practicing Lean – Lock’em Up
Orry and Art are participating in the upcoming Lean People Development and Lean Accounting Summits taking place during the week of September 11-15, 2017 in the charming southern city of Savannah, GA....
View ArticleEliminating Budget Waste to Become Future Ready
Senior leadership often uses the budgeting process to try to squeeze costs out of your organization. As a result, the budgeting process at most organizations has become one of the most painful to...
View ArticleLessons from the Rescue of 77 Businesses
If there’s one shared trait among the companies Bob Bethel took over, it was their approach to accounting. Each one of them was using what Bob calls “taillight accounting” – looking backward to see how...
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