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 …

Making Sense of Social Messiness

I encourage you to sample the first 2 minutes of this podcast. This is a tool-less conversation about social media. We actually started out the podcast with me commenting on the title and yes another book on social media which led to this comment:    Francois: I think a lot of people are like that. I Read More …

A3s for Special Causes, Lean for Haiti

January 12, 2010 marked the one year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. A fellow Lean Blogger, Mark Graban of http://leanblog.org was fortunate to meet a special person – Russell Maroni, an x-ray tech at Akron Children’s Hospital. He volunteered in Haiti for 15 days in February 2010 as part of the earthquake relief Read More …

Quallaboration Podcast with Benson

The relationship between Quality and Collaboration, Quallaboration was the topic of this podcast. Jim Benson, the person behind Personal Kanban was the Business901 guest to explain the meaning of it all. Quallaboration came from a lightning talk he put on when explaining a recent case study. Joe Dager, the Host of the podcast said, “I Read More …

Selling a Fort Wayne Home thru Social Media

Disclaimer: This is about selling my own home and information can be found at http://FortWayneHomeforSalebyOwner.com. I feel somewhat challenged to use predominately Social Media, the web and a 28 day plan in selling our Fort Wayne home. Yes, I do have yard sign. I have always discussed that people who talk the talk should walk Read More …

Interview with Author of the Lean Blog, Mark Graban

A few months ago, I did a Podcast with Mark Graban, Senior Fellow at the Lean Enterprise Institute. I enjoyed talking to Mark and at the end of the Podcast; we went off the subject matter and started a discussion on social media. The tape was running and we recorded some additional thoughts on social Read More …