The Use of Design Thinking at Toyota

One of my favorite books of recent years, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers was co-authored by Jeanne Liedtka. Her co-author Tim Ogilvie, CEO of innovation strategy consultancy Peer Insight was a past podcast guest and I highly recommend both the podcast and the book. Transcription with Podcast link: Using Design Thinking Read More …

Lean Service Design Presentation at ASQ

I have the pleasure of participating in the conference and will be giving a sixty-minute presentation on Lean Service Design. My presentation will be offering a unique perspective on applying Lean to the Service Design Field. All participants of my presentation will receive a CD (CD is available on Amazon) that contains: 130 Page PDF eBook Read More …

How Starbucks Connects with Customers

Joseph Michelli’s books, and doing a podcast with him several years ago, I concluded after reading Joe’s latest book, Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People, that it is his best work to date. An excerpt by Dr. Joseph Michelli from the podcast and transcription below: Read More …

Connecting Strategy and Customer Service

John Goodman is the author of  Strategic Customer Service and Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). CCMC’s customer satisfaction and loyalty surveys and analytics are used by leading Fortune 500 companies from every industry to produce a better ROI from their investments in customer experience. John has managed more than 1,000 separate Read More …

The Starbucks Way of Connecting

It is a lesson in strategic marketing that few books meant for that purpose can even come close. After reading, most of Joseph Michelli’s books, and doing a podcast with him several years ago, I concluded after reading Joe’s latest book, Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Read More …

A Progression to Service Dominant Logic

Joseph Michelli, author of Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People is tomorrow’s podcast guest and like all his books he bases them around five principles. This is Michelli’s second book on Starbucks, the first one was The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Read More …