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 …

Can you be Lucky by Design?

Beth Goldstein, Founder and CEO is an author, consultant, trainer and founder of Marketing Edge Consulting Group, she has empowered hundreds of entrepreneurs to successfully grow their companies.  We discussed her newest book, Lucky By Design: Creating Real Opportunities that Empower Your Business coming out this fall. Beth‘s special talents is helping companies gain an Read More …

Managing your Lean Marketing Team in a Sales PDCA Cycle

In a previous post, I discussed the SALES PDCA Framework for Lean Sales and Marketing Teams. Within the actual PDCA stage the sales team is empowered to make their own choices and determine their own direction to accomplish the goals of that cycle. This framework is introduced in the book, Marketing with PDCA . During Read More …

Lean: Prototype Early and Often

Agile Software, Product Development and in the Lean Startup you hear discussion of the Minimum Viable Product or MVP which is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature. More information can be found in a blog post, Developing a Minimum Viable Product. A MVP is not a Read More …