Revisiting the 7 Steps to Improve Your Marketing

Last week I wrote a blog post, 7 Simple Steps to Improve Your Marketing  and promised to update this past thinking into a more updated version. However, I fell short of my promise, Wednesday already and I am not ready to jump all the way to current state. This blog post forced me to reflect Read More …

It’s Not the Way You Do Work, It’s the Way You Think About Work

Get a glimpse into Menlo Innovations joyful and disciplined “agile” methodologies that are the foundation on how they have built our business culture. This Business901 podcast with Menlo founder and chief Agilist, Rich Sheridan discusses the Menlo WayTM.  At this date I am sure there is only limited seating left for this action packed day Read More …

DevOps is About Bridging the Gap

Dominica DeGrandis has spent most of her career synchronizing interactions and dependencies between teams, Dominica is keen on improving the way teams work together to help bring alignment to the entire organization. Dominica holds a BS in Information Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. She is an independent trainer, coach and international speaker. She Read More …

State of Readiness in Kanban

When flow gets interrupted or gets a hiccup and it stops. It just seems like it never gets going again. But part of that, I always think about has got to do with having it ready in the queue, and having it ready to be processed. You talked about managing the queue. Is that similar Read More …

Origins of Lean Kit Kanban and a few Kanban Basics

Bandit Software was founded in May 2009 by Chris Hefley, Stephen Franklin, and Daniel Norton. They all worked together once upon a time at the Nashville-based healthcare giant, HCA, Inc. and remained friend for years, long after leaving to pursue other opportunities. One day they just decided it was time. Time to strike out on Read More …

Are You Tuning Your Business Network?

A business thought leader who is known as “The Woman with the Titanium Digital Rolodex.”  Judy Robinett has been profiled in Fast Company, Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek as a sterling example of the new breed of “super connectors” who use their experience and networks to accelerate growth and enhance profitability.  Judy Read More …