Creating a Perfect Pitch

Founder of One Perfect Pitch, a consulting firm based in San Francisco, Marie Perruchet introduces her new book on the art of pitching “One Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Your Idea, Your Product, Your Business–or Yourself”. Related Podcast: Perfecting Your Pitch Download PDF of Transcription Note: This is a transcription of an interview. It has not Read More …

Getting Started with DevOps

In next weeks Business901 Podcast, I was prepared for a technical discussion about DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Instead, I receive some of the best practical advice about getting started and working with people for any process. The excerpt below is just a small portion of what Shirley Ronen-Harel discussed in our conversation. Shirley is an Agile and Lean Read More …

Can Kevin Kelly Predict the Future?

According to Kevin Kelly, much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. He captures this in his new book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. These twelve trends overlap and are codependent on one another, and Read More …

The Purpose For The Parade of Technology Novelty

Kevin Kelly helped launch Wired magazine and was its executive editor for its first seven years. He has written for seemingly every publication  and  his previous books include Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. His present position is described as the Senior Maverick at Wired,. Kevin can now add being a guest on Read More …

Drill-Down Mapping for a System Perspective

There are a lot of different ways to get started with process mapping, but I have found one of the easiest, and most useful is in developing user stories versus the old SIPOC method of Suppliers-Inputs-Process-Output-Customer. Though I am a big believer in a SIPOC, it just I not the right tool for everyone. Especially Read More …

Use Scrivener for All Your Content Writing

Writers of all kinds but especially those who are creating written content every day. Scrivener makes planning, writing, and compiling a book easier than ever before and has been called the greatest advance in writing since the typewriter. There’s just one problem. It’s not user-friendly at first and there is quite a learning curve. The Read More …