August 2010

Managing your constraint – Part II – Automation

In Part I, you saw how Personal Kanban can be applied to managing your personal constraint – the 10,080 minutes you have available each and every week. This second installment will share some free web based tools so you can automate your Kanban and take it with you. I’ve tried the free web-based versions of [...]

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Managing your constraint – Part I – Kanban

Each of has the same 1,440 minutes every day, 7 days a week, but what we accomplish with them varies dramatically. For most of us, time is our constraint, and how we choose to exploit the time available will drive the results we see. My last post on singletasking gave some tips for managing your [...]

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The case for singletasking

A few weeks ago I wrote a post asking “Is multitasking getting us anywhere?“  It created quite a bit of activity in my LinkedIn groups and one kind reader reminded me about the  The 4 hour work week. I had read Ferris’ book a few years ago and while his internet entrepreneur shtick is  definitely [...]

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Innovators field guide to finding unmet customer needs

Several posts back, I talked about three steps to jolt your innovation.  One of the suggestions was getting into the customer’s environment to find unmet customer needs and unmet market needs.  This post continues to build on the customer value lens approach by outlining six of the essential elements to conducting customer visits in B2B [...]

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Is multitasking getting us anywhere?

Chief Executive Magazine recently took leaders to task in an article that hits one of the problems of multitasking on the head. What message does multitasking send to those around us? Multitasking, whether as an organization or individually kills focus and reduces productivity and innovation and among other areas the development of new products.  The [...]

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