A serial entrepreneur having founded multiple start-up companies, including one of the first profitable Internet enterprises. Eric V. Holtzclaw is the Founder/CEO of Laddering Works, a marketing strategy firm. He has spent 20+ years creating opportunity by identifying and capitalizing on emerging trends and disruptions to business. His professional experience includes: founding multiple successful start-up Read More …
Ideal Marketing is No Marketing Ideal Sales is No Sales What is Ideality? As defined in the book, Systematic Innovation: An Introduction to TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) co-authored by John Terninko: Ideality is defined at the sum of a system’s useful functions divided by the sum of its undesired effects. This theoretical measure Read More …
Terri Griffith in her book The Plugged-In Manager describes an easy-to-understand framework for plugging in, explained through three core practices: Stop-Look-Listen: What does your data say? What do you already know that will help you with this project? Mixing: How do you balance your available resources? Sharing: How can you achieve better results by integrating Read More …
Bob Lewis, president of IT Catalysts and author of Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do and Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do was part of a discussion with me on project and change management. An excerpt from the discussion is below. Joe: People think that to manage a project Read More …
Joe: David, you are saying that for change management that it’s not like we just throw everything away. We are keeping some of it and making an evolutionary change rather than an edict that this is what we’re going to do now. I asked that question of David Anderson, a thought leader in managing effective Read More …
David Kasprzak, of the blog, My Flexible Pencil discussed the intersection of Lean and ROWE in a Business901 podcast. ROWE is a concept developed by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, co-authors of the book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution. ROWE stands for Results-Only Work Environment. Related Transcript and Podcast: Read More …