The Theory of Constraints in Services

The Business901 Podcast featured John Arthur Ricketts, a distinguished engineer at IBM Corporate Headquarters. As a consulting partner and technical executive, he has dealt with many services management issues, including those faced by clients in their own services businesses. His work in applied analytics led him to become a focal point on Theory of Constraints Read More …

Six Sigma Black Belt Storyboarding tips

I am intrigued by simplicity. How do you create your presentations? Or maybe if you are a Six Sigma Black Belt, your storyboard? Do you lay all your analysis, maps and charts and then create your slides? Good video describing a very similar process that I use in creating a presentation. Ben and Paul demonstrate Read More …

Do you have a recent Six Sigma Storyboard that you would share?

If your organization has created a Six Sigma Storyboard and you would like to share your project success with others, I would enjoy promoting it free of charge. You would be interviewed about the project and storyboard. A podcast or even a Video podcast will be created which will post to my Pod-site, Blog and Read More …

Marketing by Sharing Concept Explained

Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. 37signals’ products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals also developed and open-sourced the Ruby on Rails programming framework. 37signals’ products do less than Read More …

Is your Product worth it?

I have been working with Dr. Eric Reidenbach of the Six Sigma Marketing Institute in the development of the 5Cs of Driving Market Share program. In the process, he has developed a Customer Value Assessment Program. You will receive five surveys based 5Cs of Driving Market Share: Customer Identification, Customer Value, Customer Acquisition, Customer Retention Read More …

Uncertainty in the Lean Startup

Good video with Eric Ries talking about startups of course but with a slightly different slant, “Stop Wasting Peoples Time.” He takes the Lean Startup to a different level talking a little more about entrepreneurship management. He claims that it needs to change because of the level of uncertainly that exist. He goes on to Read More …