Value Stream Marketing Webinar

Value Stream Marketing (This webinar program  has been replaced by the following) Having Lean in your Sales and Marketing toolbox is the most sustainable advantage that you have in the marketplace. This 90-day program will create a continuous improvement program for your sales and marketing. The foundational work is in Lean, but you will find Read More …

Boyd’s Law of Iteration: Speed beats…

From the Coding Horror Blog This leads to Boyd’s Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration. You’ll find this same theme echoed throughout every discipline of modern software engineering: Unit tests should be small and fast, so you can run them with every build. Usability tests work best if you make small Read More …

Your first Step in Achieving Expert Status

In every industry, there’s a powerbroker in the background an advisor who is known to just a handful of people, but who helps build empires for the top “stars” who are household names. I discovered such an advisor. Her name is Janet Switzer — and for the last 16 years she’s been quietly creating empire-building Read More …

Rethinking your Sales Cycle

John Holland and Tim Young have just co-authored a book titled Rethinking the Sales Cycle: How Superior Sellers Embrace the Buying Cycle to Achieve a Sustainable and Competitive Advantage. This book contains a detailed explanation of the three phases of the buying cycle popularized by Mike Bosworth in Solution Selling  and had been created in Read More …

Bringing your Storyboard Alive!

Your storyboard should not be a a dry report but an active document that truly makes your project come alive! Storyboarding has become a popular way of transferring the details of a Six Sigma project to a graphical representation. Very much like your child’s fifth grade science fair project. The purpose of course it gives Read More …

A Preview to Kaizen Week

This week the Business901 blog will center our theme on Kaizen, one of the most often used Lean words but practically ambiguity has set in on the term. Kaizen stands for Continuous improvement, the Kai to break apart, to change and the Zen to study or to improve. Recently, the Kaizen Event and/or Kaizen Blitz Read More …