Holacracy, Zappos and Standard Work

According to the Holacracy.org website, it is a social technology for the agile organization, one that bakes adaptability and responsiveness into the core of the organization. One of my favorite authors, Joseph Michelli describes in a blog post, A Case Study for 2014 – Learning from the Legendary Leaders, as: Holacracy has been best defined Read More …

User Personas replaced Buyer Personas?

Expanding your reach to as many people in an organization can be more important than finding and concentrating on the decision maker. You have to move away from the structure of selling to the traditional hierarchy that is demonstrated in a command and control environment. This is difficult at times because you have predefined outcomes Read More …

The Changing Face of Employee Engagement

Eric Michrowski is a globally recognized leader in combining Human Performance, Operational Excellence and Process Improvement to drive Business Transformations that achieve substantial shifts in Customer Experience, Operational Reliability, Employee Engagement and Financial Performance.   Combining elements of Organizational Development and Change Management, his approach is anchored in over 15 years of hands-on experience in a Read More …

Markus Andrezak on Kanban

During the last years, Markus main focus has been on transitions towards Lean and Kanban product management and development practices across his portfolio. With Arne Roock, he co-authored ‘Replenishment’, a free eBook on Kanban. His Blog: Portagile and Twitter: @markusandrezak. You can find more information at his company website: http://ueberproduct.de/en/. Markus is one of thought Read More …

My Marketing plan, any questions?

The traditional marketing outsourcing strategy is that you will find someone or an agency that has done wonders for friends of yours or can produce an outstanding portfolio of accomplishments. You will interview them, and those items of brilliance will be demonstrated. You will hire one, and they will probably deliver outstanding content. You may Read More …

Tales of Continuous Improvment

Beyond Agile co-author Maritza van den Heuvel was my guest on the podcast, .Should your Processes be cast in Stone.  Below is a transcription of the podcast. Beyond Agile examines 10 companies, mostly in the tech world, but also in innovative automotive and business consulting, that have actively evolved their processes. Using tools from Lean, Read More …