Dr. John Terninko has integrated his diverse experience base (electrical engineering, operations research, organizational development, teaching, continuing education and management consultation) to develop a unique intervention style for organizations. He has been teaching and using TRIZ for 13 years. Consistent with his professional life of being on the cutting edge in QFD and Taguchi for Read More …
Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting and practical experience to write Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. He founded and sold two technology companies and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing appears in the HBR, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. An excerpt Read More …
Scenario Thinking is an art form, methodology, or discipline that I believe is as important to master as any tool that we have in our toolbox. When we are looking at different alternatives to the future, we use scenarios to paint that picture. I addressed that question with George Wright, the co-author of Scenario Thinking: Read More …
Pricing is more than just an issue of margin and production costs, but rather a complex set of contextually factors best defined as an outcome. In the podcast, we discussed the outcome of four contextual factors: Situation, Objectives, Perception and Capabilities. Rob Doctors,author of the book Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price and the Read More …
What you think you know that you don’t know! Try this list before constructing your next presentation How you present information matters Tangible Personalized Social Interaction Frame Loss not Gain Unique messages for each audience You need to change attitudes to change behavior Set Behavioral expectations Connect to Values People know what motivates them to Read More …
The Knowledge Vee by Gowin offers a unique perspective for Lean People trying to apply Lean to Sales and Marketing. Most of us relate PDCA to the typical manufacturing analogies such as cycle time and waste reduction. The Knowledge Vee, I have found to be useful in transferring the knowledge-creation activities or thoughts to PDCA. Read More …