Using Lean Thinking in Social Media

Ric Dragon’s organization is DragonSearch, one of the best boutique SMM (social media marketing) and SEO agencies in New York. They help companies use existing internal resources to monetize their investment in social. As a result of this work, Ric recently authored Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. Read More …

Apply Process Thinking to Social Media

I think @RicDragon did it. Ric has unique insights grounded in marketing, process methodologies (such as Lean), Social Media and traditional web know-how. This is a process that is repeatable, improvable and documented in his new book, Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. I had the pleasure of Read More …

Lean Leadership Workshop

Lean Frontiers, Indianapolis, IN based, is known for producing the high quality, focused Lean Workshops. This fall (October 2-3, 2012) they are hosting the lean workshop, Lean Leadership presented by Mike Hoseus. The course is intended to demonstrate the role of leadership in connecting and simultaneously developing the “Product” and the “People” Value Streams in Read More …

Understanding Lean Teamwork

Many organizations start practicing the tools of Lean and fail to understand that it is the people side that makes Lean effective. I have seen where organizations will develop the skill set of Value Stream Mapping, A3 Problem Solving or even Hoshin Planning. But spend little time developing a Lean attitude around the most basic Read More …

How Gaming Teaches you to Plan

compLexity Gaming recently added Heroes of Newerth as a division to their championship gaming family. HoN is a solid title in eSports and complexity has contracted one of the very best teams to represent the coL Community: Trademark eSports. Trademark is currently ranked #1 in the GosuGamers rank database and #3 on the recent HoNCast Read More …

Creating Great Teams

In a past Business901 Podcast, Transforming Ordinary Teams to Extraordinary, Geoff Bellman co-author of Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results discussed what makes a great team.  Geoff discussed the 8 points that they found common in those teams and how you can use them to improve your chances of creating an extraordinary team. Read More …