A Learning Journey

Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter) jumped off the shelf at me when I saw this one key theme, The Learner’s Journey. See what author Julie Dirksen has to say about it in this Business901 Podcast. Julie is an independent consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years of experience creating highly Read More …

What do We do to Empower People

Kathy Cuff is a senior consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies and co-author of LEGENDARY SERVICE: The Key is to Care. Kathy seems to have done just about every job at the joined the Blanchard Companies and help create many of the custom products for their clients. Related Podcast and Transcription: Legendary Service is Read More …

Interaction Design with Dave Malouf

Dave Malouf, @daveixd, is currently the Manager of Product Design at Rackspace, the open hosting company (RAX). They are responsible for all the administrative control panels for our Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Networks as a Service system. Dave has been working primarily in Internet front-end design Read More …

Managing Your Products Lifecycles

The most difficult thing to do sometimes is to say I am done. How do you know when a product/service is finished? In Lean Thinking, we design (EDCA) for PDCA and only after we standardize do we consider the initial design finished. We are only finished when the product lifecyle is completed. How are you Read More …

Will Employee Experience Mimic Leadership Experience

I have always thought that the Customer Experience will mimic the Employee Experience. After this discussion with Kathy Cuff, I might take that saying one step further. Kathy Cuff is a senior consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies and co-author of LEGENDARY SERVICE: The Key is to Care. Kathy seems to have done just Read More …

Will Learning Cycles Replace Stage Gates

The differences in Design between Lean and Six Sigma are not in the tools that they use but in the paths, they have chosen to take. The initial paths of each into the design fields were driven by the fact that most cost and problems to include quality and variability were designed into a product/service Read More …