Common Thread of Design, Service, Lean

The subject of Design Thinking and Service Design has become more and more prevalent in my thought process recently and many find those words somewhat fuzzy type thinking. But it is really targeted at people that want to become more humanistic in their way of thinking and from my viewpoint their sales and marketing process. Read More …

Improvement Sales and Marketing Toolset

It’s tough to implement a philosophy. Most of us whether we care to admit it or not were introduced to Lean, Six Sigma and even Design Thinking through a set of tools. I have written two posts on this subject, a guest blog post on Tim McMahon’s Lean Journey blog titled, Lean Sales and Marketing Read More …

The Present and Future of Co-creation

Nick Coates of Promise Communities explains the fundamental rules that make co-creation possible. He shows how an idea that has been around for decades is being put back into the spotlight by communication technologies, and tells the audience what to expect for the future of this re-emerging discipline.   I think Nick presents some definitive Read More …

Building Customer Trust thru Design Thinking

I had the pleasure of doing a guest blog post on Tim McMahon’s Lean Journey blog and it was titled, Lean Sales and Marketing – Not without a new Toolset!.  As the name indicates is discusses how you should look at applying Lean in Sales and Marketing with a little different set of tools, a Read More …

Left Brain Dominant Design Thinker

In a recent blog post, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean anymore! I introduced a few thoughts from Tim Ogilvie, CEO of innovation strategy consultancy Peer Insight new book Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers. I would encourage you to visit that post before listening to the podcast and leave the diagram up Read More …