Here we go with answers from the Q&A:
1. I understand the kaizen process of outgoing improvement. But imagine you are applying this process to a business model finally proven as wrong.
You probably improve the process a little bit, but in this situation you need a complete revolution, a quantum leap, a totally new business model.
When [...]
It’s time for a question and answer session, so from now until Monday you can post any questions you have about kaizen and I will answer them next week. But first please follow a couple guidelines when posting:
1. Post one question per comment and seperate each question with a single post.
2. Your question must be [...]
I recently received a comment that a lot of the things taught here are on the blog are the same thing this person heard many years prior in the corporate business world and the overall tone was implying it just wasn’t the same for or couldn’t be useful in an Internet based or other smaller [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The article directory is now up and running… Here is the URL:
http://www.thekaizenbusiness.com/art/
It’s still a little rough around the edges but eventually the template will get changed around to look a bit better. Go ahead and post your articles… don’t forget to include a resource box for yet another way to get a free link back [...]
For the next 24 hours you can get the Lean Business System online home study course for just $10, after that the price will be $105.
Here is the URL:
http://www.leanbusinesssystem.com/special.html
Continuous improvement really is powerful stuff to make major improvements in any company. This online home study course breaks it down into easy steps… If your business [...]
I have to admit that visiting forums is a part of this business model, primarily for purposes of traffic generation (more on those results later)… however when it comes to the online based business world I have begun to realize there is certain amount of money making garbage floating around the net.
Robert at CyberCashology really [...]
I apologize to you the readers… the host for blog is replacing the server we are currently on and something that was supposed to take a several hours has now spanned several days. So it’s time to move ahead with the blog regardless, in the worst case scenario the newer entries will be restored from [...]
The absolute worst time to begin building quality into the business processes is when the customer complains due to issues like poor quality, late delivery and so forth. Plainly stated customers aren’t the quality control department… if you have to reactively engage in improvement efforts due to customer complaints then your business has some serious [...]
Roger had the correct answer, the diagram in the recent What Is This post represents the inputs and outputs of a particular process, it’s called an input, process, output diagram or IPO… so what… why should we care? How does this improve your business?
Taking it a step further each of the input elements are how [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The eighteenth edition of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs hosted this week at Startup Spark features quite a selection of good reads on all sorts of business issues.
Check it out, you may even notice an entry from this site.