The Eight Disciplines – 8Ds Approach: A Primer

Introduction In the current environment, a successful business must quickly respond and adapt to changing customer conditions and regulatory edicts in competitive industry-specific segments. Today this challenge is being tested with incessant customer demands for high quality, cost-effective, and customized mass-produced products and receptive supporting services. The Eight Disciplines (8Ds) Read more…

Lines of Business – LOB: Technology Budget Roles

Introduction  Technology professionals are evolving from traditional centralized IT activities into strategic roles, within focused business lines of business (LOB) structures, with direct technology-spend budget responsibilities. LOB is an organizational concept comprised of individual business units that support the creation, promotion, sales, and management of industry-centric industry sectors. Today, organizations Read more…

Kaizen: Continuous Improvement Action Plan & Philosophy

Introduction  Kaizen is the Japanese word for “improvement,” and in business activities, Kaizen describes the structured analysis activities supporting continual workplace improvement that involve all employees. The goal of Kaizen is proactively improving work processes and operations to eliminate waste across all organizational boundaries without regard to silos commonly found Read more…