Instilling the Culture of Disney

This is a transcription from the podcast,  Are you Plusing your Show?, with Doug Lipp. Doug is a world-renowned speaker and acclaimed expert on customer service, leadership, change management and global competitiveness. Doug recently published a book, Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees. Disney U reveals the Read More …

What it takes to Simplify

Irene Etzkorn, my guest on the Business901 podcast, is a worldwide authority on simplicity. As executive director of Simplification, she built the Simplification practice of Siegel+Gale. Her clients include the nation’s top banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, utilities, and health care providers. Irene and Alan Siegel have recently authored Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity Read More …

Community is an Organic Construct

An Organization is an inorganic construct. That is why organizations struggle building community.  It seems the harder we try, the more difficult it is. Listen or watch as Rosetta President Tom Adamski explains how communities and relationships are transforming the way companies do business. Tom drives Rosetta’s fast growing Commerce business and oversees Marketing and Read More …

Competitive Advantage of Simplification

For decades, Irene Etzkorn and Alan Siegel have championed simplicity as a competitive advantage and a consumer right. Consulting with businesses and organizations around the world to streamline products, services, processes, and communications, they have achieved dramatic results. Simple is a groundbreaking and invaluable guide to achieving the three fundamental principles of simplicity: clarity, transparency, Read More …

Are you Plusing your Show?

That philosophy is found in the phrase that Walt Disney started and everybody in the Disney Organization knows. It is called “Plusing the Show.” Walt would say: “We have to keep plusing our show, if we ever lose them, meaning the guests, it will take us 10 years to get them back. This is an Read More …

Business Process Management more than an IT Function

Business Process Management is more than an IT function. It is how we go about our work as an organization. Theodore Panagacos, a former Management Consultant with Booz & Company explains this and how BPM works with Lean and Six Sigma in his book The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management: Everything you need to Read More …