by John Boudreau | Apr 19, 2016 | Inbound Marketing, processes, sales
If you’re a consultant or a small business, you’re familiar with the following scenario. You need sales so you spend time prospecting which inhibits your ability to deliver your service. When you’re focusing on delivering the service, you’re not...
by John Boudreau | Feb 18, 2012 | Hypothesis, McKinsey & Company, MECE, Methods and Theories, Problem Solving, processes
I know it’s mid-February, but I don’t think it’s ever too later to have a New Year’s resolution. My resolution has to do with reading. My goal is to read 24 books in 2012 or 2 books per month. I’m already behind by 2 books, but I just...
by John Boudreau | Dec 10, 2011 | processes, results
I read another interesting book recently, “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande. The author shows how a simple tool, a checklist, can help organizations avoid errors and improve results. Gawande is a surgeon and he was asked by the WHO (World Health Organization)...
by John Boudreau | Feb 4, 2011 | Business, efficiency, improvement, processes
A recent HBR blog caught my eye. The author conveyed the fact that many organizations have low hanging fruit that can be harvested fairly easily, only if someone was looking. Here’s a quote from the blog that really spoke to me: “Think of all the business processes...
by John Boudreau | Jan 11, 2011 | Business, companywide goals, Metrics, processes
In a recent blog on the HBR website, Brad Power asks the question “Where Have All the Process Owners Gone”? In the post Power brings out a couple important points that really spoke to me. Processes must be improved across departments There must be a...
by John Boudreau | Jan 5, 2011 | Business, collaboration, execution, hiring, processes
At Astonish we have a yearly company meeting. Our meeting is today and I thought I would write about one of the major points I’m going to share with our company. It’s called the “right things” model. I first heard about this concept for Vern...
