Managing Customer Value
Christine Comaford believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy. Her newest book, Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times, will be released January 2018 but if you pre-purchase the book through her website there is an amazing collection of free Read More …
This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Team and Teamwork Stack I organized this stack on Team and Teamwork interviews with Geoff Bellman, Jim Benson and Russ Unger. I ended up with 21 publications in the stack at the time of this publication. Stacks are a new way Read More …
Successful Lean teams are iTeams When I use this term, it is based on a simple theory that Teamwork Is an Individual Skill. In this book by Christopher Avery he describes a team as a group of individuals responding successfully to the opportunity presented by shared responsibility. Paraphrased from the book: Your ability to create Read More …
Craig Bouchard, author of the book, The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder Value, discussed how CAT got it right in a Business901 podcast. Craig is an entrepreneur, writer, art collector, great father and pretty good husband. Crafted the first and only “hostile reverse tender merger” ever successfully completed on Wall St and Read More …
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 …
Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. He is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives and also can be found on twitter @alshalloway. Alan is the primary author Read More …