The Trumpet of Smarter Solutions

Forrest Breyfogle discusses his new book The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System.  and  the Integrated Enterprise Excellence. The IEE provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Transcription and PDF Download of Podcast Transcription and PDF Download of Podcast Related podcast: A Trumpet Read More …

The Maker Movement

TechShop, a do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio with six locations open and hundreds more planned over the next decade, is the largest public access tools and computer enabled manufacturing platform in the world.  Mark Hatch recently authored The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers to capture Read More …

Lean as a Gateway to Food Safety Compliance

Preston W. Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. During his second career, he has specialized in helping companies understand, acquire, implement, and maintain world-class business practices and systems using advanced information technology. Blevins has Read More …

Teamwork: The Caterpillar Way

Craig Bouchard, author of the book, The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder Value, discussed how CAT got it right in a Business901 podcast. Craig is an entrepreneur, writer, art collector, great father and pretty good husband. Crafted the first and only “hostile reverse tender merger” ever successfully completed on Wall St and Read More …

Moving Sales Compensation

We are seeing a shift in organizational structure that is unprecedented in modern times.  This shift seems to dominate most social media forums, discussion groups and conferences. It has permeated even the largest of organizations. Being agile and innovated is not enough. We have to be transformational and disruptive to meet today’s demands. Our organizations Read More …

How to Breakthrough the 20 Billion Dollar Ceiling

“In the early 1980s, Caterpillar, Inc. lost one million dollars per day for 3 consecutive years. Its continuing existence came into question. Today, CAT is the world’s most profitable manufacturer of construction and mining equipment and large engines. The now legendary global company made numerous well-calculated , though risky decisions for three consecutive decades in Read More …