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Events to Watch in Houston

Attend the Buy Local Business Alliance Conference - May 1, 2010 Transition Houston and the Houston Peace and Justice Center have launched an...

Houston Area Buy Local Business Alliance Conference May 1

Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010Sign-in: 7:45 a.m.Conference: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Location: St. Stephens Episcopal Church Pecore Hall 1805 West Alabama...

Jim Highsmith introduces Houston to sustainable project performance measures

Last week Jim Highsmith, Cutter Consortium, addressed the Houston Chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) on Beyond Scope, Schedule,...

Local First in 2010

The world has become “flat” and globalization is already a done deal. We’ve gained both good friends and productive business...

Houston makes Smartest Cities list

Shaping Tomorrow, a Futurist web site, has published a Forbes list of The World's Smartest Cities compiled by Joel Kotkin. Houston is ranked #7 on...

Creating and Sustaining SuperPerformance Part V - Organizational Optimization is NOT firefighting

David Wayne of Corpus Optima suggests that putting out a fire is not improvement – it’s solving an immediate problem in order to get...

Creating and Sustaining SuperPerformance Part IV: the data is in

In a recent article from Corpus Optima ,Dave Guerra reports on the results of research on culture and business performance. From Harvard Business...

Sustainable Business Recommended Reading and Resources

Lean-AgileLean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Lean Enterprise...

Agile projects; a better way of creating value

Roy Carnes of OutSystems spoke to the Houston APLN Thursday (11/19/09) about Evangelizing Agile. Roy asked how an organization could realize higher...