Continuous Research, Writing & Improvement

This week I’ll be in Scottsdale attending the ISSSP Leadership conference.

I just may tweet a twit or two…

This week I am in Orlando at the IQPC Profit Through Process Week. Four solid days of Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, and Leadership speak.

I’ll be tweeting along with several other attendees using the hashtag #profitprocess. Follow the stream on Twitter or stick around right here to keep up with us.

Ask us questions! Join the conversation, The more people outside Orlando who chime in the better.

Overall Top 50 Words

I attended the ISSSP 2010 Leadership Conference last week in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. (In case you missed it check my twitter stream for the live tweets). I have been attending the leadership conference since 2005 and have always enjoyed it. This week was no exception. From flawless execution, to remarkable speakers and excellent networking opportunities, the event was everything I hoped it would be.

An effective way to capture the theme of a conference is to stack up the subjects that each of the speakers touch upon and look for trends. At the micro level we can look at the words they use to convey their message. Since I do not have audio to transcribe all of their exact words (only the words from my notes), thanks to wordle.net, I can create a beautiful word cloud representation. Of course this is a biased analysis. What I took away was certainly different from what impressed others, yet I believe this analysis still captures the essence of the state of the business process improvement industry: Change.

Change is upon us as practitioners, consultants, and media portals. We can either react to change, ignore it (for a little while), embrace it, or create it ourselves. The people and organizations who embrace change before change embraces them — will be light years ahead of the pack. Those that lead change will be even further. So how about it? Are you ready to change?

Day One Word Cloud

Day Two Word Cloud