A Stack of Agile Transcriptions

A few of the Agile Discussions without including Kanban. I have a separate Stack for Kanban.  This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Agile without Kanban A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on applying Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to the Supply Read More …

Turning Down Cold Calls?

Are you missing opportunity in the way that you manage your vendors. Shawn Casemore, the author of Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the Competition thinks that way. Shawn is my guest next week to discuss operational empowerment and how companies are leaving valuable knowledge and opportunities on the table. And it is just Read More …

A Million Books in Print: DM Scott

The New Rules of Marketing & PR opened people’s eyes to the new realities of marketing and public relations on the Web. Six months on  the Business Week bestseller list and published in more than twenty languages, New Rules is now a modern business classic. David Meerrman Scott, author of 10 books with the most Read More …

Mark Burgess on Promises Best of 2015

The Business901 Podcast of the year was a two part series Designing through Promises & Designing through Promises, Part 2 with Mark Burgess as the guest. The Transcription of the Podcast can be found at The Theory of a Promise Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package  CFEngine, but has also Read More …

Lean Scale-Up Webinar

Lean Scale Up Webinar January 27, 2016 at 10:30 CST Free Webinar sponsored by SimpliLearn This is not about finding product market fit or minimum viable product (MVP). It is not about starting a business. If you are looking for rapid growth with the purpose of being acquired, this may not be the fast-track investor-rich Read More …

Mercedes Journey to Customer Centricity

Joseph Michelli is my guest this  week and as always, Joe made the podcast…well, a Michelli Experience. We discussed his new book, Driven to Delight, which I recommend. When you reflect for a moment on how a product-centric Mercedes-Benz transformed into a customer-centric organization, well it is very difficult to even imagine. The culture not only had Read More …