Gaining New Insights into a Sales Process

In last week’s podcast with Linda we dove into the topic of insights.  How she phrases it may lead you to re-think the way you train your sales people. Entire Transcription with Podcast Link: The New Sales Conversation with Linda Richardson Joe Dager: The Lean world is predominantly on the operational side where we think Read More …

Building Habit Forming Products

Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting and practical experience to write Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. He founded and sold two technology companies and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing appears in the HBR, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. An excerpt Read More …

Simplifying Value Stream Mapping

When you start creating a Future State Map it is wise to step back and take a more empirical view of the process looking for major outputs or changes in skill requirements. Dividing the Value Stream Map in this fashion allows you develop chunks or groupings,. This allows the divided Value Stream to be scrutinized Read More …

Using Scenario Thinking

Scenario Thinking is an art form, methodology, or discipline that I believe is as important to master as any tool that we have in our toolbox. When we are looking at different alternatives to the future, we use scenarios to paint that picture. I addressed that question with George Wright, the co-author of Scenario Thinking: Read More …

Fogg on Keeping Customers Engaged

Next week’s podcast is with Nir Eyal, author of the book Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. In the podcast, we discuss BJ Fogg’s work at Stanford on Behavior. This is a great introduction to how to create daily habits. How would you change your habits around Customer Engagement? How could you help create Read More …