Service Design Presentation

Marc Stickdorn is one of my favorite resources on Service Design. Even without that endorsement, he has earned his recognition as the co-author of This is Service Design Thinking. Marc appeared on the Business901 podcast, Service Design Thinking Podcast with Marc Stickdorn. Below is an excellent presentation on Service Design with a little Service Dominant Read More …

Communities grow when you allow Cooperation without Coordination

Are you considering Open Innovation? Are you considering co-creation? What about co-producing? Are you ready? Are you trying to grow your Social Community? I don’t have answers today but Clay Shirky, author of books like Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations discusses Read More …

Capturing the Flow of Information

Since 1953, the Graham Process Mapping method has been the choice of experts worldwide who need to understand the details of their data flows.  Since 1990, Graham Process Mapping Software has made detailed process mapping even easier.  Graham Process maps display every hand-off, every decision point, every customer interaction, every time information changes in an Read More …

How to unite Development and Operations

DevOps is becoming a familiar word in the world of IT and as a result shifting the focus away from separate departments working independently to an organization-wide collaboration. It’s about addressing all the work as a whole, versus looking only at the bits and pieces, or only looking at capital versus expense. One of the Read More …

The Discipline of Managing Promises

In the podcast, We don’t use a Transactional Contract for Marriage, Why for Projects?, with Alan Mossma of The Change Business we discussed The Promise Conversation Cycle. Alan had this to say about it. Think of a customer and a provider, or a potential provider. The customer makes a request to the potential provider. That Read More …

Process and Activity Mapping

Andy Carlino and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center discuss activity mapping and product / process maps and their use in business process improvement. A couple of my favorite Lean people add to my recent conversations on Process Mapping. Jamie and Andy are the co-authors of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Read More …