What You Will Learn in My Interview with Alan Shalloway
Here’s what you will learn in my interview, Understand What Your Challenge Is and Where You Want to Go, with Alan Shalloway - The foundation principle you must understand to be successful with an agile transition Key questions to ask that determine your strategy How to take an organizational approach when you have to start with a bottoms-up approach What's the real intention of taking an agile … [Read More...]
Don’t Let Distractions Divert Your Attention from What’s Most Important
What's the most critical process to address in process improvement? It's probably not the process you addressed first or even thought needed attention. When I heard John Bernard, author of the bestselling book, Business at the Speed of Now, talk about it in my interview with him it reminded me of what's most important when flying an airplane. If you have never flown an airplane as the sole pilot in … [Read More...]
Do You Have the Right Perspective on Your Current Situation?
Where’s the airport? Can you spot the airport in this picture? How long did it take you? Maybe this one is too easy but maybe not. One of the most interesting things that I’ve experienced, and other pilots experience this as well, is how difficult it can sometimes be to locate an airport from the air. This is especially true when flying to an airport you have never flown to before, but it can also … [Read More...]
Questions Change Your Perspective
It was just over a year ago that I decided to start asking experts a very simple question. The question was, “What is your best process improvement strategy or tactic that has worked really well for you or your clients?” I’ve been absolutely astonished at what that question has accomplished for me, and I hope for many of you as well. For me, it launched a journey to create an interview series … [Read More...]
Good Strategy Begins by Taking a Higher Perspective
There has to be a better answer to process and performance improvement - and there is. So how do you get there? Looking from the trenches of your company can feel daunting and difficult to analyze. You need to step away from it to see it for what it really is. You need to take your lens and zoom out. Better yet, you need to get on a plane and see things from a birds-eye view. You need a higher … [Read More...]
5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success™
How valuable would it be if you could sit down with a group of leading process improvement experts and ask them for their best process improvement idea, strategy, or tactic? That's exactly what we've done in 5 Minutes to Process Improvement … [Read More...]
Aerial Photos
I capture my passion for observing the world from a 3,000 ft. perspective in pictures. It mirrors the same perspective I like to take in my professional work of taking a big picture view with the destination on the horizon, while keeping a birds-eye … [Read More...]
