Should the Lean Champion be the Chief Customer Officer?

I asked John Goodman, next week’s Business 901 Podcast guest, author of the fantastic book  Strategic Customer Service, fellow presenter at ASQ Service Quality Conference in Las Vegas and last but not least Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (http://www.customercaremc.com/), the question: “Your presentation ASQ is titled, “Beyond the Buzz Words”. Can you Read More …

Personas, Stakeholder, Journey Maps work?

Successful companies are now viewing their marketing as a method for getting the message in from the marketplace versus pounding the message out. It is this inbound marketing stuff we have been talking about the last few years. The new methodologies of User Experience, Service Design, Design Thinking and the Lean StartupTM are all about Read More …

Framing Big Data, part 2 of 2

Let us say you have Google or even Facebook – you have a billion users. It is almost impossible for Google and Facebook to understand whom their customers are. Intuition or even just like talking to some customers is going to give you an extremely biased view. You are going to basically base your entire Read More …

How to Change the Size of your Brain

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar’s amazing brain scans show how meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress. The evidence on the benefits of meditation is overwhelming. If you do a search on Ted.com alone for the videos on meditation Read More …

ASQ Service Quality Conference in Las Vegas

This ASQ 2013 Service Conference provides how-to’s, step-by-step advice, and the latest in service delivery methods and networking opportunities. Speakers will engage you on topics to help organizations improve customer service, reduce costs, and build both customer loyalty and satisfaction. Join us in Las Vegas for two days of networking and discovery. 22nd Annual Service Read More …

Facilitation Discussion with UX Designer, Russ Unger

Russ Unger’s new book Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation (Voices That Matter) was discussed in the recent Business901 Podcast,  Voices Matter: Are you helping the situation?. This is a transcription of the podcast. Download or view the PDF: Facilitation Discussion If you would like to view the flip magazine on your screen or Read More …