Know about the Maker Movement?

Do-It-Yourself industry in the U.S. is a $700 billion industry Mark Hatch is the CEO, co-founder of TechShop, a former Green Beret and now, a Business901 Podcast Guest. He has held executive positions focused on innovation, disruptive technology and entrepreneurship at large and small firms alike. His background includes time with Avery Dennison and Kinko Read More …

Lean Change Methodology

In the podcast with Jeff Anderson, the catalyst behind the Lean Change Method, we discussed the Lean Change Techniques he has deployed at Deloitte. More information is available about the Lean Change Method at http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/.  Jeff leads the Deloitte Lean market offering, providing advisory, transformation, and change management services to software technology based organizations, helping Read More …

Lean as a Gateway to Food Safety Compliance

Preston W. Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. During his second career, he has specialized in helping companies understand, acquire, implement, and maintain world-class business practices and systems using advanced information technology. Blevins has Read More …

Are you SWOTing or SOARing?

In reading Gary Klein’s latest book, Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights, he discusses a story based on a method called positive psychology. In a nut shell, it says that the therapist would try to make a depressed person less miserable by eliminating their misery. The problem was that when you Read More …

Improve Listening thru the Practice of Empathy

Leon Berg is a founding member of the Ojai Foundation, an educational sanctuary in the Upper Ojai Valley of Southern California. He is a Senior Trainer of the Ojai Foundation’s Center for Council Practice, and has been facilitating Council groups in the U.S. and abroad for over 20 years. In 2001, he went to Israel Read More …

Collaboration thru the Eyes of Edison

Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life.  Sarah spent the first 15 years of her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with Global 500 firms including Read More …