Managing Customer Value
When you read most vision statements, at best, they provide lip service to the customer. I have a tendency to agree, your vision statement should be about you. In a past podcast, Ari Weinzweig, one of the founding partners of Zingerman’s Community Businesses discussed his ideas of writing a vision, when he said; The visioning Read More …
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 …
Recently my work has centered on jobs that allow me to expand my thinking in the area of Outcome-Based Thinking. I have been fortunate to move into this field, and I find it exhilarating to say the least. Part of this thinking is embedded in Service Dominant Logic and the concepts of Value Co-creation and Read More …
I read a book over 25 years ago I believe that was called Take a Chance to Be First: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Success by Warren Avis. To this day one thought that has always stayed with me about entrepreneurship and starting a business; So do some careful figuring and planning, come up with the Read More …
I ask Charlene Spoede Budd, a Professor Emeritus from Baylor University, that question in a past podcast. Dr. Budd taught management accounting and project management classes for a number of years and has co-authored two accounting textbooks with her most recent book, A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management. Joe: What makes throughput accounting Read More …
Most of us already have our goals in placed to increase business by 5 or 10 percent or maybe if you are a young company you might be doubling or tripling sales this year. We have Created our Lean Scale-Up Budget, and now all we have to do is manage the plan or if that Read More …