What will your workplace be like in 2020

Jeanne Meister, co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today discusses how online technologies and the advent of digital and social media are changing the ways in which companies source talent, customize employee development, and promote agile leadership. In this video Jeanne connects 2020 with TODAY! The 2020 Read More …

Change Education, Change the Sales Cycle

Though this is a well documented Ted Video, I ran across the RSA Animate video version of Ken Robinson’s discussion on education. Funny thing about it was that it really hit a chord when thinking about the typical Sales Cycle or Marketing Funnel. Not the part on Attention Deficit Disorder but when he talks about Read More …

The Different Levels of Kaizen

Do you consider how Individual Kaizen affects your organization? Does your CEO create more waste than a production worker? The Friday Video Series continues with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. This series of videos continues with a central theme of Kaizen. Dr. Balle is a multiple Shingo Prize winner Read More …

Using Little Ideas to Achieve Big Things eBook

This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, Using Little Ideas to achieve Big Things podcast with Peter Sims the author of the book, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. Peter Sims is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He was the coauthor with Bill George of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Read More …

If cost is equal would you experiment or analyze, acquire or retain?

In Arie Goldshlager’s posterous he says,  I found the following interview with MIT Sloan Management Review, Michael Schrage on Value-Creation, Experiments and Why IT does Matter very instructive. Note particularly: “The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis. You can get more value for time, more value for dollar, Read More …

Gemba Coach talks PDCA

The Friday Video Series with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute recently competed a month long series on PDCA. As I reviewed the video, I found that over 30% of the material had been edited out. I have included the entire audio of the conversation as a podcast. Even if Read More …