The Connected Company author interviewed on Business901 Podcast

PRLog (Press Release) - Jan. 2, 2013 - In a recent Business901 podcast, What happens if we think of the Company not as a Machine…. we discuss this type of company and investigate what Dave calls pods. We even take a little time to talk how this all applies to Lean.

Dave Gray’s Connected Company Interview (http://business901.com/blog1/dave-grays-connected-company...) is a transcription of the podcast. There are additional links to download the podcast or listen through the Business901 Itunes store.

Dave works with senior leaders to help them design more flexible, innovative organizations. His passion is to create real, sustainable change in complex social systems. He helps groups work together to visualize complex challenges, making them easier to see, share and solve, so they can move their ideas and organizations forward.

Dave has authored two books on designing change and innovation. His first book, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, is a practical handbook for innovators and change agents. His second book, The Connected Company, is a strategic blueprint and roadmap for businesses who want to innovate and lead in the next century. Dave is the founder of XPLANE, the visual thinking company, which was acquired by the Dachis Group in 2010. Dave is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers, and serves on several advisory boards.

The Business901 Podcast offers visitors the opportunity to listen to current business topics such as discussions on Lean, Design Thinking, Service Design, Six Sigma and Marketing. The Lean Marketing Lab is an online community, that has been created to further the cause of bringing continuous improvement to the sales and marketing arena. The foundational work is in Lean but you will find a flavor of Service Design and Design Thinking intertwined. Join and receive the four books that make up the Marketing with Lean Series.  

About Business901 (http://business901.com):provides direction in areas such as Lean Marketing and Lean Services. Joe Dager is president of Business901, a firm specializing in bringing the continuous improvement process to the sales and marketing arena.  He takes his process thinking of over thirty years in marketing within a wide variety of industries and applies it through Lean Marketing Concepts.

Joe has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their quality journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts. The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored four books with the most recent published this year, The Lean Engagement Team.

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