DevOps is About Bridging the Gap

Dominica DeGrandis has spent most of her career synchronizing interactions and dependencies between teams, Dominica is keen on improving the way teams work together to help bring alignment to the entire organization. Dominica holds a BS in Information Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. She is an independent trainer, coach and international speaker. She Read More …

Are Sales Conversations about Discovery?

I see that often, people don’t really know how to walk through discovery process. A sales guy is out there and that old A-B-C, always be closing, is in the back of his mind. He’s judged that way. It’s like, “What am I bringing to the table? Or afterwards you will be asked, did you Read More …

More About a Mindset: Service Design

Sylvain Cottong has spent his career at the intersections of business, society, technology, science & culture, with the value of design for process, service & product development and more generally with leadership & innovation. This was an enlightening podcast that I go back and review often.  Related Podcast and Transcription: Service Design Is More About Read More …

It’s Not About Getting Your Message Out

I ask Service Design extraordinaire Marc Stickdorn,  co-author This is Service Design Thinking, a few questions how Service Design thinking has changed organizations value proposition. Related Podcast and Transcription: Service Design Thinking Joe:  Marc, things change. It’s not about getting your message out anymore; it’s about bringing your message in. I think that’s a good Read More …

Why the Lack of Popularity in U.S. about Service Design

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 …

Good Work is About Vocation,

One of the founding partners of Zingerman’s Community Businesses and the author of a number of articles and books on food and businesses, Ari Weinzweig commented on what it takes to lead an organization. An excerpt from the podcast is below. However, I encourage you to skip the blog post and review the entire transcription. Read More …