Does Autonomy lead to Greater Clarity?

Mark Burgess is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Configuration Management and Promise Theory. He was the principal Founder of CFEngine, and is emeritus professor of Network and System Administration from Oslo University College. Read More …

Team Building with Six Sigma

In a podcast, I had Jeffrey M. Koff, the Director of Lean Six Sigma Learning on from Xerox we broke off on some of the discussion on Lean and Six Sigma and focused briefly on team building. You can read or listen to the entire podcast here Design for Six Sigma or the podcast with Read More …

Should You Wait for Membership till after the Transaction?

The membership economy is over and above just a transactional action. The transaction should be just part of the whole membership thing. Membership shouldn’t be — let’s say after the transaction. -jd Robbie Baxter: Right, exactly. This brings us into the whole idea of a Freemium Model, which is the idea that you can have Read More …

Pressure Test Your Brand – Put It On Paper First

If you can’t synthesize it, if you can’t put it down on paper, it’s really difficult to go forward. You save yourself a lot of money by the struggle of putting it down on paper.-jd Carolina:   Absolutely. They say that strategy is sacrificed, and you will be surprised when I do this work with entrepreneurs, Read More …

How do you start in the Membership Economy

You just don’t give this to the VP over here that’s been 20 years. How do I create this within my organization? I know there’s going to be a cultural shift, but how do you start? -jd Excerpt from next week’s Business901 Podcast: Robbie Baxter: I think you’re right. You don’t just give it to Read More …

Should You have Configuration Management

An excerpt from the Podcast and Transcription: Project Thinking In Configuration Management Joe:   Should every part of an organization have a configuration management system then? Jon Quigley: It should have some kind of change. It should identify the things that matter down the stream or that have to be coordinated and the things that impact Read More …