Jim Benson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

We work with companies and agencies world wide, employing Lean, systems thinking, agile management and behavioral economics to help professionals and teams communicate, collaborate and manage their work. We specialize in creating coherent and enjoyable working systems for knowledge workers. This includes understanding work, thoughtful work selection.

Seattle, US

Modus Institute is an online school teaching cutting edge management for the 21st century business and worker. We offer directed learning in time management, communication, distribute teams, visual systems, learning, forecasting, and Lean ideals. Current courses are available in successful distributed teams and Personal Kanban. Classes are self-paced or.

Boston, MA, US

Teach and help evolve Lean Concepts, work the LEI Learning Partners, advance the usage and adoption of Lean worldwide

Seattle, WA, US

Personal Kanban takes lean philosophies and tools and applies them to time management for individuals and small teams. It is a visualization tool that lets people see the workload they've committed to and better plan how to complete it. Personal Kanban has merely two rules: visualize your work and limit your work in progress. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work.

I am currently serving as an advisor role to a several startups, helping them with initial feature sets, product development processes and business decisions.

Responsible for business planning, business development, and conceptual software design. Closely managed all HR, fiscal mangement, and strategy.We specialize in the creation of GIS enhanced management software for governments and private clients. We created asset management and real time status applications most often for Intelligent Transportation.

Cooperation Commons is an open multidisciplinary study of cooperation. http://cooperationcommons.com. Guided by Howard Rheingold and Stanford University's Institute for the Future, the site is an effort to have a distributed study of a core aspect of human existence and survival: cooperation.

Treelink is an urban forestry think tank and non profit. I served as a Board Member for three years, working with Treelink on technology and urban forestry issues.

Portland, Oregon, US

At DEA, I worked with major government clients including WSDOT, INS, FDA, USCS, ODOT and lots of other acronyms. I created transportation technology plans and oversaw the deployment of technology implementations for my clients across the US. I also worked as an urban planner on several "mega projects" - extremely large transportation planning and design.

At Metro I was a professional Catch Phrase. At the time, the catch phrase of the industry was "Transportation Land Use Link". This meant that the planning industry was realizing that transportation planning and land use planning, in order to be successful, had to be conducted jointly. I was hired by Metro to provide this linkage to their ground breaking.

Before Metro, I worked on the planning of Seattle's light rail system for three years; was a CADD expert for several architecture and engineering firms; worked at the Capital Area Transportation Authority in Lansing, Michigan, for two years; studied transit station locations and housing density in Tokyo, and wrote lots of angry youthful missives.I was also.

Post Graduate, Transit Station Location

Bsup, Urban Planning, Russian Lit