Great group of guests this year and had a lot of fun doing and reviewing over 50 podcasts that were recorded this year. This is a summary of the top Business901 podcasts of the year. From this group, the top podcast of the year will be chosen. I have excluded this year’s December Podcasts and will include them in next year’s list.
- Markovitz On Keeping Your Company Fit: Dan Markovitz helps organizations become faster, stronger, and more agile through the application of Lean Principles to knowledge work. He has worked with non-profit and governmental organizations, is a popular speaker and presenter, and a Shingo Prize Winner.
- Brandon Brown on the Toyota Kata (Part 1 of 2) & Brandon Brown on the Toyota Kata (Part 2 of 2): Brandon Brown delivers tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota Kata Coach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator as an Associate for the W3 Group.
- Designing through Promises & Designing through Promises, Part 2: Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and promise theory.
- Cespedes on Sales Strategies (Part 1 of 2) & Cespedes on Sales Strategies (Part 2 of 2): Frank V. Cespedes is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Unit at Harvard Business School. He has run a business, served on boards for start-ups and corporations, and consulted to many companies around the world. He is the author of five books.
- The Process of Marketing Segmentation (Part 1 of 2) & The Process of Marketing Segmentation (Part 2 of 2): Professor Malcolm McDonald has consulted to many major companies from the UK, Europe, USA, Far East, South-East Asia, Australia and Africa, in the areas of strategic marketing and marketing planning, market segmentation, key account management, international marketing and marketing accountability. He has written over 40 books.
- Achieving Explosive Growth with Traction: Gabriel Weinberg is the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track you with over three billion searches in 2015. Previously he was the cofounder and CEO of Opobox, which was sold for $10 million.
- The 3 Legs of an Agile Business Practice: Patrick Waara of ResponseAgility was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility. An Agile Business must have three pillars to stand on Process Agility, Technical Agility, and Personal Agility says Patrick.
- Making Complex Thinking More Organized: Timo ter Berg is the CEO of Critical Thinking, a leader in the development of software. They help people visualize and organize their thoughts combining innovative graphic display tools with the latest research on how to make complex thinking more organized and accessible.
- Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience: Jeff Gothelf is a designer, an Agile practitioner with a specific expertise in User Experience culminating in his book Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience.
- The RedQuadrant Method of Public Service Transformation: Benjamin Taylor is a founder and managing partner at RedQuadrant. He is passionate about systems thinking, customer-led transformation, lean, and generally thinking about better ways to run and lead organisations.