Category: Bits Bobs and General Rants

Breaking Brexit

Stop Talking … Start Doing … and lets get ‘Breaking Brexit’! Say we are a small rural business in a sleepy town or village just keeping pace with rural living … chances are Brexit (Britain Exiting the EU) are not top of our day to day business priorities let aloneRead More

Brendon September 21, 2017 Brexit, business development, business strategy, finance, Implementation, Innovation, kanban, Objectives, operations, people management, Problem Statement, professional timeline, Project Charter, Project Management, sales and marketing, self assessment, small business, Strategy Approaches, Bits Bobs and General Rants, Brexit, Business Development, Implementation, Innovation, Lean, Project Management, Small Business, Strategy Comments Off

Professional Timeline

Professional Timeline is a simple single slide visual presentation I created as a summery of my now crowded personal CV. Introduction I get a lot personally from being a volunteer skills development coach. Helping others to find their direction and push forward empowered by their growing passion to pursueRead More

Brendon March 19, 2017 Creative Thinking, Fish-bone diagram, Lean Thinking, Project Timeline, Visual Management Bits Bobs and General Rants Comments Off

The need for rewards

Background: I was reading a post about Engaging and Motivating Employees by Warren Tanner at SoapBox.com. In his post Warren asked questioned rewards … “Is it really the psychological rewards that employees gain from feeling valued and engaged in meaningful work that encourages them each day, rather than the hopeRead More

Brendon September 25, 2016 bonus schemes, deficiency need, desires, employee motivation, employee recognition, employee rewards, extrinsic needs, intrinsic needs, maslow hierarchy of needs, respect for people, Value Bits Bobs and General Rants, lean learning, Social Commerical Partnership, Uncategorized Comments Off

If Japan Can …

While researching for my masters in Quality Management (Lean Innovation) I was watching on YouTube the NBC Whitepaper entitled ‘If Japan Can Why Cant We?’ when the closing statements of Lloyd Dobyns of NBC caught my attention and triggered a question. The question began forming when I noted that theRead More

Brendon September 24, 2016 Deming, Japan, NBC, Productivity, Quality Science, six sigma Bits Bobs and General Rants, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Quality Science, six sigma Comments Off

Rural Ireland Must … “Innovate Or Die!”

Rural Ireland must … Innovate Or Die!. This may sound a little over dramatic until you make a connection as I did recently. I was conducting research for a thought experiment which forms the basis for my masters. My thesis is framed as a question, “How can lean innovation createRead More

Brendon July 21, 2016 Agile, Cahir, Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel, change, Clonmel, collaborate, Collaboration, commerical, Commerical Value, Community, consume, consumer, consumption, Employment, footfall, Frugal Innovation, fukushima, Futaba, globalisation, Hirono, innvate, Ireland, Irish, Japan, Japanese, job seekers, Katsurao, Kawamata, Kawauchi, Litate, local business, Minamisoma, Namie, Naraha, Nenagh, Okuma, partnership, problems, refugees, Research, Retail, Roscrea, rural econ, rural ireland, shared value, shopping, small business, Small Town, Social, Social Gain, sustainable solutions, Tamura, Templemore, Thurles, Tipperary, Tomioka, town centre, transformation, unemployed, Unemployment, villages Bits Bobs and General Rants, Business Development, Innovation, Local Economic Development, Social Commerical Partnership 5 Comments »

The Pyramid of Wisdom

In Search of Knowledge and Wisdom I would like to suggest, that at the core of our primal intellectual desire, is a need to seek knowledge and wisdom. The pyramid of wisdom is my personal visual representation of the evolution of demand created from need, through knowledge creation to theRead More

Brendon September 15, 2014 Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Ideas, Ideation, Innovation, Innovation Development, Knowledge Management, Lean, Lean Learning, Lean Thinking, Problem Solving, Research, shared value, System Thinking Bits Bobs and General Rants, Innovation, Knowledge Sharing, Lean Comments Off

How Can Innovation Work For You?