Can you be Lucky by Design?

Beth Goldstein, Founder and CEO is an author, consultant, trainer and founder of Marketing Edge Consulting Group, she has empowered hundreds of entrepreneurs to successfully grow their companies.  We discussed her newest book, Lucky By Design: Creating Real Opportunities that Empower Your Business coming out this fall. Beth‘s special talents is helping companies gain an Read More …

Service Design Thinking

I recently finished the book, This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases and I found it to be the best reference manual so far on this contemporary approach for service innovation. I thought they did an excellent job of documenting the latest material on the methodology. If I had one complaint, I found Read More …

Project Effort – Value evaluation Tool

This is fun tool from the Forrester Website that is based upon the book, Empowered. In Empowered, the authors demonstrate how companies can successfully transform their business through the employees called HEROes (highly empowered and resourceful operatives). But they do not stop with just employees they also share ideas on how to leverage empowered customers. Read More …

Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace

From the McGraw-Hill Press Release: Social Media. Brand Collaboration. Content aggregation. Microblogging. User-generated content. And the list goes on… It’s been said that business is in the midst of the customer-centric marketing revolution—a trend which points toward business treating brands less like “property” and more like an extension of an organization’s values. The upshot is Read More …

Left Brain vs Right Brain = Management vs. Marketing

I was reading the book, War in the Boardroom: Why Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Marketing Don’t See Eye-to-Eye–and What to Do About It, looking for a few ideas on how to approach Lean concepts to marketing and more specifically CMOs. Of course, we all know trying to apply a discipline to a bunch of right Read More …