Does your Value Proposition speak of the Customer Experience?

When most organizations think about their value proposition, they think about the tangible benefits that the organization offers or how much better they are in a certain area versus the competition. It might even include their history, technical expertise, latest technology, commitment to customers, etc. In the book, Strategy from the Outside In: Profiting from Read More …

Using Control Points to Manage in Lean – Flinchbaugh

This is a transcription of a Business901 Podcast, Can Control Points add Value in Lean? with Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center. Flinchbaugh says, Ever have the strange feeling that something big is wrong, but you don’t know what it is? This common disease is hereditary in one species: the manager. Most managers spend Read More …

Follow the Right Steps, achieve the Life of our Dreams says..

Tom MacKay of MacKay NLP Solutions believes we can and that’s what we discussed during this Business901 podcast. Neuro Linguistic Programming (usually called NLP) helps you improve your business, relationships, sporting or artistic performance by teaching you proven strategies that work. People waste a lot of time doing things that don’t get them the results Read More …

Create a Great Workplace eBook

Ed Muzio, president and CEO of Group Harmonics was my guest on the Business901 Podcast. This is a transcription of the podcast, Creating a Great Workplace. We had a great discussion on his new book,  Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time. He is Read More …

Can Control Points add Value in Lean

Can you really add value or are you just creating another tool to fill out some more paperwork? On the Business901 podcast. Jamie Flinchbaugh the co-author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road answered this and a few more questions such as: What is a control point? What is control point standardization? Read More …

OODA Loop eBook

Dr. Terry Barnhart, the Senior Director Strategy and Continuous Improvement at Pfizer Global R&D discusses the OODA Loop in this Business901 Podcast. This is a transcription of the Podcast. We expand this theory into some practical applications and using the OODA Loop in and outside of rapid deployment. Dr. Barnhart has an upcoming book due Read More …