Random Thoughts on Limiting WIP

The 2 key ingredients of Kanban from a personal standpoint depicted in the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Benson and Barry and in business described in the Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business> by Anderson were two things; visualize your work and limit work in process. From my perspective Read More …

Mapping Products Your People Love

Donna Lichaw helps you navigate the oft-treacherous waters of product development. Helping you not just to tell stories or use stories to promote your product, but to build your products as if they were stories themselves. Her book, The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love shows you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and Read More …

Using a Host Metaphor for Leadership

Mark McKergow used this metaphor as a way to engage with other members of teams, organizations, communities, and movements. I read Host: Six New Roles of Engagement from the perspective of a sales and marketing person. I felt it added great lessons about when to and when not to engage with a customer/prospect. Mark’s other book, The Read More …

Role of Marketing after the Sale

I am a big advocated of building your funnel from opportunity versus depletion. An excerpt from a previous Business901 blog post: Most marketing funnels concentrate on building linear step by step plans. They think of gathering a large group of prospects and narrowing them down through some type of funnel and toward a prospective customer. I Read More …

Viewing Leadership from a Host Metaphor

And you may want to consider this metaphor from a sales perspective. In the book, Host: Six New Roles of Engagement, author Mark McKergow used this metaphor as a way to engage with other members of teams, organizations, communities, and movements. I read it from the perspective of a sales and marketing person, I felt it added Read More …

Understanding Subscription Marketing

Author of Subscription Marketing: Strategies for Nurturing Customers in a World of Churn, Anne Janzer, is my guest on the Business901 podcast. We discussed how marketers can manage the disruptions of the subscription economy. Listen/Download MP3 Business901 iTunes Store Mobile Version New Accessibility for the Business901 Podcast