Patterns of Behavior affect Projects

In an earlier Business901 podcast, Lesson Learned in Project Management, Mel Bost and I discussed his thinking around Project Closeouts. There was a portion of the podcast that I edited that I thought stood on its own merit. It was a section on Patterns of Behavior. I think you will find this short edition will Read More …

Lesson Learned in Project Management

Are you good at closing out a project? By that time most of are so happy to see it completed that the drudgery of going back to point fingers and establish blame is the last thing we want to do. However, the greater value, even more so than the actual project, often times, is the Read More …

The Value Proposition of Use

Traditional sales and marketing evolved with linear thinking and the traditional sales funnel. In the past Goods-Dominant Logic thinking created a cost-plus price model for products which limits market scale. Scale must be done by creating something better, faster or cheaper or there must be the availability of increasing markets. Many of our products/services are Read More …

Standards create the WOW in Business

Many people see Lean as another process methodology still mired down in the process thinking world of the eighties and nineties. The facts are that companies, such as Danaher, Toyota, Ingersoll Rand and Amazon have embraced Lean thinking or similar concepts and have excelled in the new millennium. What makes these companies stand out? They Read More …

One Page Project Management Podcast

In this Thursday edition of the Business901 Podcast, Mick Campbell co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International discusses the most recent book, The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper. This replaces the first book and has a section on Agile Project management. The One-Page Project Manager Read More …

Standard Work in Lean Marketing

Leader standard work is a concept in Lean Management, popularized by David Mann in his book “Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition”, that creates standard work for managers. For many in the Agile community, the notion of “standard work” brings a repellent idea of standardization and work standards, and the Read More …