Building Customer Trust thru Design Thinking

I had the pleasure of doing a guest blog post on Tim McMahon’s Lean Journey blog and it was titled, Lean Sales and Marketing – Not without a new Toolset!.  As the name indicates is discusses how you should look at applying Lean in Sales and Marketing with a little different set of tools, a Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Cycles are Knowledge Building Tactics

When you discuss Lean Sales and Marketing, PDCA Cycles and how Continuous Improvement can be used; people jump to a couple of basic conclusions. When you throw in additional words like quality, effectiveness and efficiencies they dig deeper and more often than not forget to take a ladder with them. Many of my writings even Read More …

Left Brain Dominant Design Thinker

In a recent blog post, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean anymore! I introduced a few thoughts from Tim Ogilvie, CEO of innovation strategy consultancy Peer Insight new book Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers. I would encourage you to visit that post before listening to the podcast and leave the diagram up Read More …

Product Managers embrace Open Innovation?

The Perfect Storm has come together of Excess Capacity and Product Variety was a blog post from a while back that quoted Carol Ptak as saying, “A lot of people have focused on the fact that the Economic times right now are really bad. What a lot of people are missing is the fact that Read More …

Accomplished Innovator creates an Open Innovation Incubator

Razi Imam founder of 113 Industries was on the Business901podcast Empower yourself before the Team. We discussed a powerful motivational philosophy highlighted in Razi’s new book Driven: A How-to Strategy for Unlocking Your Greatest Potential. Before the podcast we had discussed his new company,  113 Industries, an industry-driven business incubator focusing on helping breakthrough discoveries Read More …

Lean Marketing House – 28 Day Program

These webinars will discuss utilizing the Lean Marketing House Concept and how to apply Continuous Improvement to your marketing process. Each Participant will receive the E-Books Lean Marketing House, Marketing with PDCA, Marketing with A3 Business901 will introduce Lean Marketing Concepts in a rather unique way. You will receive a download link to each webinar Read More …