Are Lean and Agile Equal Partners?

An industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, Product Portfolio Management, Scrum and Agile Design, Alan Salloway helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. He is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives In a past podcast (Related Podcast and Transcription: Shalloway on Agile), I asked Alan Read More …

Customer Delight does not equal Customer Loyalty

The Challenger Sale author Matt Dixon, is my guest next week on the Business901 Podcast, and though I could not resist talking about The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation, the discussion eventually got around to his new book The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty. I like to think Read More …

If cost is equal would you experiment or analyze, acquire or retain?

In Arie Goldshlager’s posterous he says,  I found the following interview with MIT Sloan Management Review, Michael Schrage on Value-Creation, Experiments and Why IT does Matter very instructive. Note particularly: “The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis. You can get more value for time, more value for dollar, Read More …

Differentiation equal Business Survival

A recognized senior executive leader and business consultant, Roy Osing knows what it takes for businesses to survive in today’s chaotic times and achieve extraordinary levels of performance. With over 30 years experience creating and building businesses, he possesses an in-depth knowledge of what it takes to immunize organizations from failure and catapult their performance Read More …

All Core Messages are not Created Equal.

I wrote a post recently that All Sales Channels are not Created Equal and talked about the resources that you would have to commit to each one. But today I had an appointment with a new client and was discussing their Core Message and went through an exercise that I thought might prove useful. More Read More …

All Sales Channels are not created equal

How do you go about creating sales channels and making them not competitive with each other. It is a pretty tall order in today’s world and one that really takes quite a bit of time so that they and yourself are not competing with each other. The Channel Advantage is a good book to start Read More …