Are you Marketing to the Informal Economy?

In his 2012 book Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, Robert Neuwirth challenges conventional thinking by examining the world’s informal economy close up. To do so, he spent four years living and working with street vendors and gray marketers, to capture its scope, its vigor–and its lessons. He calls it “System Read More …

Applying Lean in the Lean 3P Design Process

Allan R Coletta is a chemical engineer with an extensive background in manufacturing operations, supply chain and engineering, gained while working in the chemical process and healthcare diagnostics industries. He recently authored a book, The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process. Allan is my guest on the Business901 podcast next Read More …

Lean Design and Development

Ron Mascitelli, president of Technology Perspectives was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Lean Design interview with Ron Mascitelli. Ron is the author of five books, his most-recent publication, Mastering Lean Product Development: A Practical, Event-Driven Process for Maximizing Speed, Profits, and Quality. This is a transcription of the podcast. Ron is a Project Management Read More …

Can we drop Product and add Value to Development or Innovation?

I think the terms Product Development, Product Marketing and Product Managers have become obsolete. This is not new thinking on my part, see past blog posts:  Do You Know the Right Job For Your Products? or Will Product Managers embrace Open Innovation? or not even, so I can promote Lean Service Design. If you have Read More …

An Evangelist of Innovation

Sylvain Cottong has worked extensively at these crossroads and as an early Internet evangelist, he has been advising governments & companies on strategies for the networked society.  He lives & works in Luxembourg and Berlin. An excerpt of the podcast,  At the Crossroads of Economics, Society, Culture & Technology is… can be read at An Read More …

A Lean Service Design Approach to Gaming your Training

#Gamification continues to be a hot subject. Gartner Group predicts Gamification will be a key trend that every CIO, IT planner and Enterprise Architect must be aware of as it relates to business. I think it goes deeper than that. A primer on Gaming with a Mindmap can be found at the Core Concepts of Read More …