Apply Process Thinking to Social Media

I think @RicDragon did it. Ric has unique insights grounded in marketing, process methodologies (such as Lean), Social Media and traditional web know-how. This is a process that is repeatable, improvable and documented in his new book, Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. I had the pleasure of Read More …

Lean Leadership Workshop

Lean Frontiers, Indianapolis, IN based, is known for producing the high quality, focused Lean Workshops. This fall (October 2-3, 2012) they are hosting the lean workshop, Lean Leadership presented by Mike Hoseus. The course is intended to demonstrate the role of leadership in connecting and simultaneously developing the “Product” and the “People” Value Streams in Read More …

Understanding Lean Teamwork

Many organizations start practicing the tools of Lean and fail to understand that it is the people side that makes Lean effective. I have seen where organizations will develop the skill set of Value Stream Mapping, A3 Problem Solving or even Hoshin Planning. But spend little time developing a Lean attitude around the most basic Read More …

How Gaming Teaches you to Plan

compLexity Gaming recently added Heroes of Newerth as a division to their championship gaming family. HoN is a solid title in eSports and complexity has contracted one of the very best teams to represent the coL Community: Trademark eSports. Trademark is currently ranked #1 in the GosuGamers rank database and #3 on the recent HoNCast Read More …

Creating Great Teams

In a past Business901 Podcast, Transforming Ordinary Teams to Extraordinary, Geoff Bellman co-author of Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results discussed what makes a great team.  Geoff discussed the 8 points that they found common in those teams and how you can use them to improve your chances of creating an extraordinary team. Read More …

Can Standard Work be Fun

David Veech (@leansights) thinks that work should be fun, exciting, challenging, and interesting, and knows that it is leaders who can make or break this kind of workplace. To help organizations of all types develop better leaders, he founded Leadersights in 2011 to focus on this overwhelming task. David is part of the a series Read More …