The Power of Repeat and Referral Customers

I recently did a blog post, Turning your Marketing Cycle into a Kanban that created a basic Value Stream Map in a beginning Marketing Kanban discussion. I defined the Exit point of the Kanban as the purchase of the service or product. I purposely left out the Repeat and Referral Customers to simplify the explanation. Read More …

Are you ready for Global Program Management? – eBook

Is your program or even project manager ready for this kind of challenge? How does a classic program and project management change as a result of this global influence? Paula Wagner,co-author of Global Program Management did a great job of answering these questions as they applied to both small and large organizations. With the increase Read More …

Value Stream Marketing eBook Released

Just released a 27-page eBook which provides an overview of the Value Stream Marketing Process. The book is an overview of applying Lean principles to the marketing process. It also serves as an introduction to the Business901 Marketing Kanban and the Value Stream Marketing 28 day program. Short Excerpt: Value Stream Marketing is not about Read More …

Can you Manage a Global Program?

In this Business901 Podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Wagner, co-author of Global Program Management. Paula Wagner, PMP, is a senior project manager/senior business manager for CNN Broadcast Engineering System Technology at Turner Broadcasting Systems. Her insight and knowledge of this field is outstanding. We discussed not only what it takes to run Read More …

Who is your Lean Rock star?

The old adage of Lean was that everything that we did we referenced to Toyota. I have always wondered why since so much of Lean was actually American; Ford, Deming, etc. Due to their success Toyota certainly popularized Lean, mostly in the manufacturing area but as Lean has proliferated to other areas it has been Read More …

Selling a Fort Wayne Home thru Social Media

Disclaimer: This is about selling my own home and information can be found at http://FortWayneHomeforSalebyOwner.com. I feel somewhat challenged to use predominately Social Media, the web and a 28 day plan in selling our Fort Wayne home. Yes, I do have yard sign. I have always discussed that people that talk the talk should walk Read More …