Should You have Configuration Management

An excerpt from the Podcast and Transcription: Project Thinking In Configuration Management Joe:   Should every part of an organization have a configuration management system then? Jon Quigley: It should have some kind of change. It should identify the things that matter down the stream or that have to be coordinated and the things that impact Read More …

Sales- What are you asking yourself?

Are you waiting for your next performance review? Most salespeople get one every quarter and sometimes every week in the form of a commission check. However, do you spend time self-evaluating yourself? Do you have a structured method to take an objective look at yourself? Here is a short list of questions derived from a Read More …

In Lean Marketing would Pull be the same as Demand?

When viewing pull in Lean Sales and Marketing, I think most people get it wrong. They think only about demand and obtaining a new customer. I think demand is something we use to have back in the 90’s, I suppose. When I think about pull, I think more in the terms of creating a customer Read More …

A Framework for Building Collaboration

We collaborate externally and internally in our organization. It is something that we do to get things done. However, in this strange world we live in we often may collaborate one day and compete the next. Internally, we may fight another department for a needed resource. If you think we don’t, just sit in at Read More …

How to Radically Transform Your Organization

This is a Part 3 of 3 blog posts on a series of books that Deloitte has sponsored that I think is outstanding. They are a follow-up to the book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, This book has been one of my staples in the Read More …

How to Help Your Organization Learn Faster and Thrive

This is a Part 2 of 3 blog posts on a series of books that Deloitte has sponsored that I think is outstanding. They are a follow-up to the book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, This book has been one of my staples in the Read More …