Applying Lean throughout the Organization

SAN DIEGO - March 22, 2013 - PRLog -- 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 computer industries. He has extensive Lean Enterprise experience in general management, new product development, cost management systems, turnarounds, acquisitions and divestitures, and various financial transactions including IPO, private equity and venture capital financing.

The conversation centered on Lean 3P, Customer Centricity and the upcoming AME Conference in San Antonio. You can find the podcast, A Lean Practitioner, through the transcription link ( http://business901.com/blog1/the-lean-practitioner-transcription/ ). There is also a link to download the podcast from the Business901 Itunes store. The Business901 Podcast offers visitors the opportunity to listen to current business topics such as discussions on Lean, Design Thinking, Service Design, Six Sigma and Marketing.

The Lean Marketing Lab is an online community, that has been created to further the cause of bringing continuous improvement to the sales and marketing arena. The foundational work is in Lean but you will find a flavor of Service Design and Design Thinking intertwined. Join and receive the four books that make up the Marketing with Lean Series.  

KDR Associates is a management coaching and education company in corporate performance improvement services.   KDR helps Service and Manufacturing companies achieve value growth through business design. The KDR Associates process of rapid improvement using lean enterprise strategies and processes is designed for lasting business performance improvement on a focused or enterprise-wide basis.  Our Lean Strategic Management process accelerates business improvement for growth and bottom line results through strong corporate strategy, people involvement, and operating excellence.

About Business901 (http://business901.com):provides direction in areas such as Lean Marketing and Lean Services. Joe Dager is president of Business901, a firm specializing in bringing the continuous improvement process to the sales and marketing arena.  He takes his process thinking of over thirty years in marketing within a wide variety of industries and applies it through Lean Marketing Concepts.

Joe has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their quality journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts. The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored four books with the most recent published this year, The Lean Engagement Team.