How Gaming Teaches you to Plan

compLexity Gaming recently added Heroes of Newerth as a division to their championship gaming family. HoN is a solid title in eSports and complexity has contracted one of the very best teams to represent the coL Community: Trademark eSports. Trademark is currently ranked #1 in the GosuGamers rank database and #3 on the recent HoNCast Read More …

Why is Product Thinking still the Prevalent thought?

Many of us believe that all we need to do is create better, more innovative products, the Apple mystic? The product continues to be the primary focus of business. Can we stay ahead of competition by products alone? Or even with products in general? We have used Lean to make products that are easy to Read More …

Creating Great Teams

In a past Business901 Podcast, Transforming Ordinary Teams to Extraordinary, Geoff Bellman co-author of Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results discussed what makes a great team.  Geoff discussed the 8 points that they found common in those teams and how you can use them to improve your chances of creating an extraordinary team. Read More …

Can Standard Work be Fun

David Veech (@leansights) thinks that work should be fun, exciting, challenging, and interesting, and knows that it is leaders who can make or break this kind of workplace. To help organizations of all types develop better leaders, he founded Leadersights in 2011 to focus on this overwhelming task. David is part of the a series Read More …

Can your Audience be your financier?

TEDx Transmedia 2011 – Liz Rosenthal quotes Oscar Wilde: “An Economist knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” So who understand value? Liz discusses how your audience can become your funding mechanism. How good is Transmedia Storytelling? If sales and marketing are storytellers, could we measure their success on how much money Read More …

Why use a Lean Simulation Game

The Lean Supply Chain & Logistics Simulation game was discussed in the podcast with Paul Myerson, author of Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management, a practical guide that will assist you in leveraging your improvements to both vendors and customers. Why use a simulation game? Paul says, To be truly successful with Lean I think Read More …