The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore. Neale Martin was driving to a meeting on the outskirts of Atlanta and had the disconcerting experience of being unable to recall the last 10 miles of highway he had driven.  He had successfully navigated a 4,000-pound car at speeds in excess of 70 mph, responding to hundreds of cars around him, without any conscious control of his  actions for at least 10 minutes. Read more »

The problem: What do you do when you have too many choices and not enough time? How do you make sense of a lot of raw information about a problem that has no apparent pattern? Read more »

The Ishikawa Diagram – also known as a “fishbone” or “root cause” diagram – can jump start your strategic planning with wonderful results.  Named after Kaoru Ishikawa, one of the early pioneers of Total Quality Management in the 60’s, it forces you to: Identify the drivers in your business ecosystem.  In the service industry these are often the 4 S’s: Surroundings, Suppliers, Systems, Skills.  If you are in manufacturing, you can start with the 6 M’s: Machine, Method, Materials, Maintenance, Man and Mother Nature. Take a holistic approach. Read more »

Raf Cammarano is an Enterprise Architect based in Australia whose blog covers the nexus of I.T. strategy and design. While I’ll grant it may be a tough read for non-geeks, he’s written a wonderful series on Business Ecosystems which outlines how old, linear supply chains are being supplanted by more complex ecosystems of interdependent and inter-related resources. Read more »

The fastest way to prove to yourself the power of a 100 Day Plan is to start one yourself.  Just pick a goal, write it down, and navigate over to the Duration Calculator at TimeAndDate.com (yes, there truly is a site for everything). Select a project that’s been needing to get done for a while and has been nagging you. Read more »