Thank you to any and all veteran’s reading this, I appreciate your service. This year we've seen a lot of people struggling and grinding their way through adversity. Recently one of my Manufacturing Industry contacts, Andrew Stackpole, posted a brief but sincere message. His hashtags, and the accompanying photo drew me in: I decided to investigate his art site. When I … [Read more...]

Today, many of you are likely recovering from a much smaller than usual Thanksgiving Day of food, friends, and family. With that in mind, today is more like a “Two-Minute Gemba.” I recently finished reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", an autobiography by physicist and overall curious character, Richard Feynman. Feynman was involved with the Manhattan Project, an … [Read more...]

If you hadn’t noticed, it’s been a little while since our “bi-weekly” newsletter landed in your inbox. I am writing this hastily because I didn’t want to miss the chance to wish you very Happy Holidays and all the best starting out your 2021. I actually got derailed in several areas this month. Going into Christmas week, I had a forced upgrade of our phone system (imagine if … [Read more...]

I have two old notebooks I often carry to customer meetings in which I have spent countless hours writing down ideas and doing “free form” planning and thought exercises. Recently, I came across an old note to myself to “check the beginning of the red notebook for ideas”. It was from a screenshot of a digital Kanban system I used prior to our current platform for project … [Read more...]

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the title of this newsletter, "Fill your head with good stuff." The purveyor of those words is author and speaker, Tim Sanders. I met Tim years ago at a conference in Chicago called “SOBCON” (Successful Online Business). It was a small but mighty conference, lots of business owners and entrepreneurs. It was a place where a guy like … [Read more...]

Two years ago, I met with the management team at a prospective customer. They had visited one of our customers who uses CIMCO Software and were very impressed. During a visit to their facility, I received a lot of input from their wish list. They had some great ideas and ambitions for improvements. Before I left, they asked me to work up a quote to get started, the … [Read more...]